Safari

Web ac­cess is im­por­tant the­se days, no mat­ter where you are. Your cus­tomers’ abil­i­ty to ac­cess your web­site at their con­ve­nience is vi­tal. Making your web­site user-friend­ly on a com­put­er is one thing; mak­ing it avail­able on a mo­bile plat­form is an­oth­er. The mo­bile Internet is the next bat­tle­ground for de­vel­op­ers and de­sign­ers and should be se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­ered by ad­ver­tis­ers. Your reg­u­lar web­site won’t cut it on mo­bile phones. Making your web­site ac­ces­si­ble on a mo­bile net­work does re­quire a (...)

SlidesJS is a crazy sim­ple slideshow plug­in for jQuery. It’s easy to im­ple­ment, cus­tomize and style. What could be bet­ter? With fea­tures like loop­ing, au­to play, fade or slide tran­si­tion ef­fects, cross­fad­ing, im­age preload­ing, au­to gen­er­at­ed pag­i­na­tion, the list goes on. SlidesJS is com­pat­i­ble with all mod­ern web browsers in­clud­ing; Internet Explorer 7/8/9, Firefox 3+, Chrome, Safari and Mobile Safari. And it’ll even work in our old friend IE6. Requirements: jQuery Framework Demo: (...)

Apple's lock on the iTunes ap­pli­ca­tion store is le­gendary. In con­trast to more "open" mar­ket­places that don't re­ly on cen­tral­ized ed­i­to­ri­al con­trol, iTunes ap­pli­ca­tions are hand-re­viewed by Apple em­ploy­ees, and the com­pa­ny con­trols what gets in and what gets out, what ap­pli­ca­tions are fea­tured, and can take weeks or even months to give your ap­pli­ca­tion the thumbs up. As the com­pa­ny's com­pe­ti­tion with Google and Android has esca­lat­ed in the last year plus, we've heard sto­ries of (...)

Thanks to smart­phones, you no longer have to be sit­ting in front of your com­put­er to upload, man­age, pub­lish and mon­i­tor your web­site. We’ve brought to­geth­er a col­lec­tion of ap­pli­ca­tions for both iPhone and Android users. WordPress If you have a WordPress web­site, then you can man­age com­ments, upload im­ages, and write, pub­lish and ed­it posts all from your phone. Both the­se apps are free and are of­fered by WordPress.org. Left: WordPress for iOS. Right: WordPress for Android Using the (...)

A Web Browser is a soft­ware ap­pli­ca­tion for re­triev­ing, pre­sent­ing, and travers­ing in­for­ma­tion re­sources on the web. Today’s web browsers are faster and more fea­ture-rich than ev­er be­fore. If you’re not sure which one you should use, then it’s not a easy task to pick one as i have seen many peo­ple say­ing don’t use Internet Explorer (IE), use Firefox, it’s much bet­ter. On the other hand some peo­ple say, don’t use Firefox, use Opera, it’s the fastest browser on earth. And there are few which say, (...)

A week ago I signed up to StatCounter in order to get some statis­tics about my site’s vis­i­tors. The re­sults are in­ter­est­ing, espe­cial­ly the mo­bile browsers count. I signed up for a free ac­count in order to test their mo­bile browser de­tect, but quick­ly ex­tend­ed that to a paid sub­scrip­tion for my en­tire site. Believe it or not, but I’ve most­ly done with­out statis­tics in the past ten years, ex­cept for a short pe­ri­od in 2008 or so when I used a bad tool that even man­aged to mess up its own (...)

There's an app for that, and you're the folks who are cre­at­ing it. But should you de­sign a web-based ap­pli­ca­tion, or an iPhone app? Each ap­proach has plus­es and mi­nus­es—not to men­tion le­gions of re­li­gious­ly ra­bid sup­port­ers. Apple pro­motes both ap­proach­es (they even gave the web a year-long head start be­fore be­gin­ning to sell apps in the store), and the iPhone's Safari browser sup­ports HTML5 and CSS3 and brags a fast JavaScript engine. Yet many com­pa­nies and in­di­vid­u­als (...)

In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft re­leased a new pre­view re­lease of Internet Explorer 9 with all kinds of great good­ies we have been wait­ing for, in­clud­ing HTML5 video sup­port. I did no­tice that this new pre­view didn’t score any bonus points on the HTML5 test for its video and au­dio sup­port. This was pret­ty strange, be­cause it should have scored bonus points for the H.264 codec. The ar­ti­cle be­low is the re­sult of a lit­tle in­ves­ti­ga­tion about why IE9 doesn’t pass the H.264 codec test and (...)

Earlier to­day I’ve re­leased a new ver­sion of the HTML5 test. The goal is still the same: to show an indi­ca­tion of how well your browser sup­ports the up­com­ing HTML5 stan­dard and re­lat­ed spec­i­fi­ca­tions. It was clear­ly time for an up­dat­ed test, be­cause browsers were start­ing to get very close to the orig­i­nal max­i­mum score of 160 points. If you dis­re­gard the codecs for a bit: a cur­rent night­ly of Safari scores 95 out of 106. That is very close and de­mands a new chal­lenge. The max­i­mum of 160 was (...)

Want to know how well your browser sup­ports HTML5? Try the HTML5 test and find out. Points are award­ed for ev­ery HTML5 fea­ture that is sup­port­ed. Added to­geth­er the­se points give a to­tal score be­tween 0 and 160. Compare mul­ti­ple browsers or dif­fer­ent ver­sions of the same browser and find out which ven­dor is slack­ing off and which ven­dor is push­ing the web for­ward. Apart from the to­tal score, the test al­so shows ex­act­ly which fea­ture is sup­port­ed and groups the re­sults in­to easy to com­pare (...)

This is a true sto­ry. Meet Mike Mike’s a smart guy. He knows a great browser when he sees one. He us­es Firefox on his Windows PC at work and Safari on his Mac at home. Mike asked us to de­sign a Web site for his busi­ness. So we did. We want­ed to make the best Web site for Mike that we could, so we used all of the CSS tools that are avail­able to­day. That meant us­ing RGBa colour to lay­er ele­ments, bor­der-ra­dius to add sub­tle round­ed corners and (pos­si­bly most ex­per­i­men­tal of all new CSS), (...)

Following up on the Safari and String.re­place() is­sue, it looks like this is a known bug that is fixed in the Webkit CVS tree but not yet part of any pub­lic re­lease of Safari. So, if you're a junkie for night­ly builds, you should be gold­en. (Your cus­tomers, on the other hand, are prob­a­bly not so gold­en.)