Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category
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 Firefox was kind enough to give a big fat warning message that the certificate had been revoked, blocking access [...]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
Posted in Browsers | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in Browsers, Technology | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in Analytics & Web Measurement, Browsers | No Comments »
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
Posted in Browsers, Web Design | No Comments »
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
Posted in Browsers, HTML & CSS, Web Design | No Comments »
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
Posted in Browsers, Web Design | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
People don’t want to “be in a relationship” with an e-commerce site… they just want their stuff.
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/
Posted in Browsers, E-Commerce, Graphic Design, Usability, User-Centered Design, Web Design | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in Browsers, Web Design | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
So I’ve spent a couple days playing and getting the flex application to have deep linking.
First, what is “deep linking”? Normally with Flash apps that you see when you load the flash application it always starts in some state. Then as the state of the application is changed by clicking things, etc. the [...]
Tags: browser, deep linking, flash, flex
Posted in Browsers, Flash / Flex / ActionScript, Technology, Usability, User-Centered Design, Web Applications | No Comments »