Search Results for: safari

Google hates HTML5, pushes Gears?

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So you bought this brand new HTC Hero and you tell everyone it’s on a par with the iPhone 3GS and its great browser? I mean, both are very recent Webkit-implementations aren’t they? Safari Mobile on iPhone OS3 is based on AppleWebKit/528.18, Chrome Mobile (or don’t they call it that?) for Android 1.5 on AppleWebKit/528.5+, … Read more

HTTP upload MIME type hell

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If anyone, like some colleagues of mine, runs into problems when uploading a CSV-file (or any other filetype for that matter) and checking mime-type (content-type), the following info might help. Deciding the correct mime-type when doing an HTTP Upload is the browser’s responsibility, which produces … well, very mixed results. I made a little test-script … Read more

WebTech news (august 2009)

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I’ve started sending out a (maybe bi-)monthly “web technology news” mail at work, I’ll repost these here (excluding items/ remarks that are specific to my employee off course) hoping someone actually finds this useful. 1. The web wants to kill Internet Explorer 6, MS won’t msie6 (° 2001) is causing web developers headaches (it requires … Read more

deredactie.be down, depannage-versie op futtta.be

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Het loopt niet zo lekker op deredactie.be; de videozone deed firefox en safari crashen, invalid atom-feeds veroorzaakten stack-traces op http://m.beta.deredactie.be en de hele site is momenteel kapot. Wie op deze blog terechtkomt op zoek naar deredactie; op http://futtta.be/deextractie/mobile.php?deffont=medium kun je tijdelijk de inhoud van deredactie raadplegen. Het is een onafgewerkte (en normalerwijs overbodige) light versie … Read more

While waiting for the new Firefox beta

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While we”re waiting for the new Firefox 3.1 beta (which will probably be released on march 12th, after which 3.1 will become  3.5), the Mozilla Labs guys announced a prototype “about:tab” plugin. It builds on the ideas they put forward on the labs-blog last august and follows in the footsteps of what Opera and more … Read more

Voorspellingen 2009: browser-oorlog, ook mobiel

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Naar aanleiding van de publicatie van de voorspellingen van 20 online experts door Netlash, zijn dit enkele van mijn verwachtingen voor het web in 2009; Uw job als (front-end) webdeveloper (of tester) wordt er door de grotere concurrentie tussen browsers niet eenvoudiger op. Ge zult niet alleen moeten ontwikkelen voor Internet Explorer (het nieuwe IE8, … Read more

Is the web too fat for your IPhone?

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So you have a spiffy mobile phone with a top notch browser that does a decent job at displaying “desktop-oriented” websites and you use it to surf the web regularly, visiting some of the bigger news-sites in Belgium. What does that mean, from the point of view of data transfer and bandwidth usage? That sure … Read more