Tag: safari
-
Media buttons not displaying in WordPress.com Add New Post screen in Safari
I’m new to WordPress.com (though been a WordPress.org user since 2004) so forgive me if this is old news but the WordPress.com New Post dialog box doesn’t display properly in Safari (version 5.03 on OS X 10.6.6, at least). If you look at the image below you can see that the Media buttons normally to…
-
Get off your high horse Ed!
There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this kind of behaviour. I believe opt-in is the only way to do optional updates, especially…
-
Screaming fast browser II
I wrote a post the other day giving speeds of various browsers running the SunSpider JavaScript Benchnark tests. Since writing the post Firefox has released Firefox 3.0b3 and Robert made me aware in the comments of the previous browser speed post that Opera 9.5 beta was released so I decided to check those two browsers…
-
Screaming fast browser?
After reading Seth Weintraub’s post on how the upcoming versions of Safari are blisteringly fast I decided to download the latest nightly (WebKit r30123) and check it out for myself. To check the different browser versions I used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The results were pretty amazing – on Vista the performance times came in…
-
Nokia N810 Internet Tablet review
I received a present of a Nokia N810 recently from a client. This was in lieu of payment for some work I did for them. To say that I am underwhelmed with the device would be putting it mildly! The N810 is an internet tablet. It has a browser and a radio and GPS built-in.…
-
Will 2008 be the year of the standards compliant browser?
Microsoft announced yesterday on the Internet Explorer blog that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) will correctly render the Acid2 test page. See the excellent Channel 9 video for more. The Acid2 test is a test of a browser’s ability to properly render CSS and HTML. From the Acid2 Wikipedia page: The Acid2 test…
-
Test post from my iPod
This is a quick test post. I am writing this post using the Safari browser on my iPod. Seems like it is going to work! Mad.