Tag Archives: browsers

The Browser Wars, Round 2

By kzurawel | Published: May 6, 2010
Last week I started using Opera 10.53 on my Macbook at a friend’s recommendation. It’s blazing fast, even faster than Chrome if you can believe that. It has great support for HTML5 and CSS3, and nice extras like Speed Dial and a tiny marker that lets you know when a tab has updated content or [...]
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So Long, Firefox?

By kzurawel | Published: January 18, 2010
I first began using Linux on a regular basis in 2003 (when Gentoo was all the rage), and with it I began using Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Firefox grew and evolved from its pre-1.0 releases over the years, adding powerful extensions like Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar, gaining inscrutable memory leaks, and picking up support for new features [...]
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Controlling Your Design on the Web, Part 1: Browser Grading

By kzurawel | Published: November 13, 2009
Designers generally like to have control over all aspects of a design – colors, layout, imagery, fonts, the list goes on and on. Part of what makes designing for the Web so frustrating, then, is that there is so little that the designer can directly control. There are an endless combination of browsers, browser versions, [...]
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