Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Today I read a Linux Magazine article hilighting some of Chrome’s 3000 extensions. A particular one that caught my attention is called BuiltWith Technology Profiler.
BuiltWith does what its title says: it profiles a site for the technologies it uses, and then gives you a little report. I like how it picks up on Cufon [...]
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
HTTPS. SSL. CA. CRL. OCSP. Cessation of Operation. Confused yet?
Firefox 3 seems to be very proactive in the area of web security. Sometime last night, a client’s SSL certificate got inexplicably revoked by GoDaddy. Firefox was kind enough to give a big fat warning message that the certificate had been revoked, blocking access [...]
Tags: certificate revocation, firefox, ie8, secure certificates, security, ssl
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
The secure pages at one site we developed require one to login with a username and password — a successful login will create a session cookie that keeps a user logged in for one hour.
Now our client reported a problem with one of their computers accessing the secure section of the site. A user could [...]
Tags: cookies, sessions, timeouts
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Which browsers should you make sure your site supports? There are certainly a lot out there (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror…and SeaMonkey, to name a few).
It’s not possible to support every browser to the same degree, and the right answer [...]
Tags: analytics, browser support, Browsers, newsletter, statistics
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Microsoft released the IE8 Web browser in mid-March but is now pushing it through the automated Windows Update (over the last month, we’ve seen visits from IE8 more than double across a number of sites we monitor, up to almost 5% of all visits).
Why should you [...]
Tags: ie8, internet explorer, newsletter
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
I’ve been doing some research for the ImagineNetwork project and have looked at the APP. I am writing a brief summary of APP and placing a few links here in this post for people reference.
Tags: Atom, AtomPub, GData, Spcifications
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Microsoft has thoughtfully allowed site owners to automatically tell IE8 browsers to render in “compatibility mode”. They stress that this is supposed to be a temporary solution, but it’s really easy. Two routes:
Tags: ie8
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Push won’t start for a little while. It’s supposed to be better at being standards-compliant, which “causes problems for sites that were optimized for IE”.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10199582-56.html
Tags: ie8
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
IE: 67.6%, (down 7% on the year)
Firefox: 21.5% (up 3%)
Safari: 8.3%
IE6 dropped from 30.6% to 19.2% over a year. IE7 rose from 44.0% to 47.3%
Statistics by Net Applications.
Read the full article: IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain
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