Posts with keyword: browsers

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SEDI and Client-Side Identity

Wed Feb 4 10:12:00 2026

Client-side certificates were technically sound in the 1990s, but they failed because individuals weren't willing to pay for identity proofing. SEDI fixes that economic flaw by providing a state-endorsed, high-assurance digital identity to anyone who wants one, creating a durable foundation for secure online transactions and future digital credentials.
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The Future of Browsers

Thu Dec 11 17:40:00 2008

The final session of the day is a panel on the future of the browser. On the panel are Joshua Allen of Microsoft, Mike Shaver of Mozilla, and Nick Baum of Google. Noticeably missing are Opera (excused due to distance) and Apple (absent without excuse). Douglas Crockford, of Javascript fame, is the moderator. Douglas asks is the add-on the best model for letting users solve their frustrations with the lack of capability in a browser. Joshua talks about Microsoft's goal to move toward extensibility through Web standards where ever possible and get away from native apps. Mike says that
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Browser Mix on Technometria

Wed Jul 2 09:30:00 2008

As long as we're on the subject of Technometria stats, here's the browser breakdown for last month on Technometria: FireFox - 41.80% Internet Explorer - 33.76% Safari - 12.65% Mozilla - 9.06% Opera - 1.79% Roughly two-thirds of the visitors to Technometria were using something other than Internet Explorer. Granted, this is a pretty geeky crowd. Of the Firefox users, roughly 30% were using version 3. Of the IE users, roughly 40% were using version 6. Only four visitors the entire month were using IE 5.5. I had a few IE 8 visitors.
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Velocity 08: Some Tools for Improving Web Performance

Tue Jun 24 12:42:00 2008

HTTPWatch is an HTTP traffic viewer for Internet Explorer. There's a free basic edition, but the professional edition is almost $300! Whew! Firebug for Firefox, of course, remains free. Fiddler is a Web debugging proxy that runs on a local port on your PC. It registers itself as a system proxy so it should work with most browsers (Firefox needs special configuration apparently). You can also point a browser on another machine at the proxy running on your PC. Wonder if you could do this in Fusion? It would probably work fine. You can also use it to monitor
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Velocity 08: High Performance AJAX Applications

Mon Jun 23 16:24:00 2008

Julien Lecomte from Yahoo! is speaking about creating performant AJAX applications. The most important point: plan for performance from day 1. Interestingly many of his initial points are about telling the developer to work with the product manager and not just say "no." Julien references an Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps by Stoyan Stefanov. Here's some tips: Less is more. Don't do unnecessary things. Break rules. Make compromises and break best practices when needed. For example, you might decide to forgo CSS. Especially CSS expressions. Work on improving perceived performance. Cheat by making users think things are done
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Inline SVG

Fri Jun 15 12:48:00 2007

Sam Ruby puts inline SVG on his blog. SVG is a language for describing scalable vector graphics. Browsers that understand SVG can render the graphics directly rather than downloading a raster-based image with another HTTP GET. Because its tags, you can manipulate it using Javascript. Check out this circle editor from Kevin Lindsey, for example. Just Javascript and SVG. If you're going to serve inline SVG, you need to configure your Web server accordingly, so that browsers get the right stuff. I also believe, although I'm not certain, that you'd need to make sure the entire file it's in
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Prefetching Considered Harmful?

Sat May 5 19:25:00 2007

Yesterday I tried to access a page at Wolfram MathWorld and got this message instead of the material I was looking for: This was puzzling since as far as I know, Firefox should only prefetch pages that the site specifically gives hints for. Apparently not. What's more curious, however, is why Wolfram blocks the entire session rather than just using a rewrite rule that's triggered on the prefetch header to deny the prefetching itself. This would solve Wolfram's problem and not be so obnoxious for their users. Like so: RewriteEngine On SetEnvIf X-moz prefetch HAS_X-moz RewriteCond %{ENV:HAS_X-moz} prefetch RewriteRule
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Squinting at Your Browser

Thu Apr 5 09:52:00 2007

Dave and I are about the same age. Maybe that's why his post wishing for per-site text-size options in browsers struck a nerve. We're both at the point where small type just looks like too much work. The answer seems to be the minimum font size option in Firefox. Set it in preferences under Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced. Following Dave's lead, I set it to 13 and life is better.
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Firefox, Internet or Search Engine? You Decide

Thu Dec 7 21:44:00 2006

Firefox T-Shirt(click to enlarge) Today I was in REI. I had on my Firefox T-Shirt. The guy helping me with flashlights said "Oh, I love that search engine!" Contrast that with this story: When I first bought the shirt my daughter, who was six at the time, climbed up on my lap and asked "Daddy, why do you have a picture of the Internet on your shirt?" Who was more right?
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The Most Important Language in 2006: JavaScript

Tue Sep 26 14:47:00 2006

You gotta love Steve Yegge's blog. One of his latest posts is called Dreaming in a Browser Swamp. Steve's style is to write infrequent, long posts, but they are always worth the wait and the read. "Browser Swamp" makes the outrageous claim that JavaScript is the most important language in the world today. A claim that surely going to get some argument (language wars are so much fun) but one which is grounded in some solid rationale. Note that Steve didn't say that it's the best language, only that it's the most important.
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