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Archive for February, 2008

Browser of the Week, Opera Woes

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I've had a couple of problems with Opera today. The first is the Google Reader issue I mentioned yesterday. It seems to occur when I scroll down the items in a feed using the mouse wheel. At a certain point, the feed window stop scrolling and the whole pane moves ...

Flash Coming to the iPhone

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Support for Adobe Flash is high on the list of iPhone browser improvements I've been yearning for. According to Gear Live, the wait is nearly over. As rumors go, this one is pretty plausible, as is the author's speculation that the launch will be timed to coincide with the release ...

A Week at the Opera, Initial Impressions

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Today we kick off Just Browsing's ongoing Browser of the Week series. I installed Opera on my MacBook Pro this morning, though I couldn't cut the Firefox umbilical cord entirely and I'm still using it on my other computer (a Windows XP box). I'll be delving into some of the ...

Apple Edges Towards RIA Viability

Friday, February 8th, 2008

MacRumors is reporting that Apple has shipped a new Safari beta to developers with a number of HTML5 features: audio/video tags, SQL storage, downloadable fonts, CSS transforms/animations and a new DOM function (getElementsByClassName). This puts Apple in pole position among browser vendors with respect to HTML5 support, although Mozilla is ...

Browser of the Week, Coming Soon

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Last week I promised that my "Browser of the Week" series would begin on Monday. Due to unforeseen circumstances, it will kick off next week. The first browser to go under the microscope will be Opera. If Opera does anything special that I absolutely positively must take a look at, ...

Why Doesn’t Dell Bundle Firefox?

Friday, February 1st, 2008

A tad less than a year ago Dell launched a forward-thinking customer feedback website called IdeaStorm, modeled on social news sites like Digg. The site appears to be a thunderous success (as its name would suggest), and one of the most popular requests, shipping machines with Linux preinstalled, has already ...