Archive for 'Browsers'

Firefox upcoming feature: Tab Candy — Just in case you’ve missed it

This fea­ture already gain­ing a lot of atten­tion, and I believe that once it shows up, and peo­ple really start extend­ing it, it will be one of the Killer Fea­tures that Fire­fox will have to offer. Some­thing that is really needed for Fire­fox to start bit­ing back some mar­ket share from Chrome. An Intro­duc­tion to […]

Waiting for Firefox 4

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I remem­ber that when I was younger I used to play and fid­dle with any new beta that came out. Back then, when I had a lot more time on my hands and red­dit didn’t exist, a new ver­sion of an upris­ing browser named Fire­fox was releas­ing in late Novem­ber, that was Fire­fox 1.5, code­named Deerpark. […]

CSS Efficiency

Con­sid­er­ing how much CSS I write on a daily basis, I never won­dered what is the fastest way to ren­der the CSS I pro­duce, and what are the costs in CPU and load time. Chris Coyier did a nice research explain­ing what are the most fast and effi­cient selec­tors in CSS,  and I’ll sum­ma­rize his find­ings here. Right to Left  —  Browsers read you selectors […]

The Origins of the Blink Tag

Here’s an inter­est­ing lit­tle piece of his­tory: In 1994, in St. James Infir­mary bar, with a 10 meter tall statute of won­der woman, Lou Mon­tulli, one of the devel­op­ers who founded Netscape, with some of the other engi­neers too a break at the bar, while there Lou joked about that the Lynx browser would not be […]