Web Browsers

Apple brings Safari to Windows

Jun 11, 2007Comments

Apple brought it’s second Apple program to Windows today. The first was iTunes. Now, we have the Safari web browser for Windows. The initial release is in beta of course.
Some good things about the Safari for Windows is that Apple has promised a speedy, speedy version. Apple says that Safari performed [...]

Extended Copy Menu - New Firefox Extension

Feb 23, 2007Comments

When I work on redesigns that use some content from the existing site, I’ll simply copy and paste the text in to my editor. Now, because I hand code that isn’t a big deal because I get plain text anyway. But if you are working in a WYSIWYG environment such as Dreamweaver, you’ll [...]

Font Finder a new Firefox Extension

Feb 9, 20071 comment so far

Font Finder is a new Firefox Extension that is a pretty interesting tool.
The way it works is that you highlight an element (paragraph, etc), right-click and select ‘Font Finder’ and you can see the full CSS text styling a what you selected.
For the most part there is a general set of fonts used and after [...]

Block Certain Elements with Firefox

Jan 23, 2007Comments

Now I see new Firefox extensions all the time and most of the time I’m left scratching my head saying, “Why spend the time on that?”
Not today though! Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper is a great extension in my opinion.
It’s dubbed as a “companion extension for Adblock Plus” but it is so much [...]

IE7 Reaches 100 Million Installs

Jan 15, 2007Comments

Tony Chor announced over on the IEBlog that IE7 has reached 100 Million installs on January 8th.
He goes on to state that over 25% of all visitors to websites in the US use IE7, the second most used browser after IE6. Of course because of the content of this site you can imagine that [...]

IE Developer Toolbar Now Available

Jan 10, 2007Comments

Microsoft has announced the latest beta (I am getting tired of that word) release of the IE Developer Toolbar.
There is an update to the user interface with a single On/Off toggle button that lets you quickly toggle on and off the bottom panel which gives you access to all the features.
A few excerpts from the [...]