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January 10, 2010

Fixing Safari Upload Hangs with Mootools

Filed under: Mootools, PHP, Tutorials, Web Browsers — Tags: , — Nelson @ 6:32 pm

Safari has a tendency to hang when uploading files, and it turns out there’s an easy fix. (more…)

August 19, 2009

Microsoft Extends IE6 Support to 2014

Filed under: Opinion, Web Browsers — Tags: , — Nelson @ 10:14 am

Is IE6 Dead Yet? It was being circled by vultures until Microsoft recently announced support for the browser would continue into 2014, the BBC reports. What does this mean for web developers and clients? (more…)

July 13, 2009

The 3D future of CSS?

Filed under: CSS, Web Browsers — Tags: , , , , , , — Nelson @ 12:59 pm

Snow Stack demo of WebKit CSS 3D visual effects

Apple is well known for their innovative thinking in just about everything they do. Now they’re making a bid to add rich 3D effects to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), potentially rivaling (or replacing?) Flash as the de-facto animation tool for websites. (more…)

May 12, 2009

Is IE6 Dead Yet?

Filed under: Opinion, Web Browsers — Tags: , — Nelson @ 5:57 pm

Floating around forums I’ve noticed this question still being asked a lot: “Do I still have to support IE6?” and often the the answer you see is that it represents such and such percent of web users, and that’s too many to ignore. The truth is, the number of IE6 users varies greatly from site to site. Some of my sites still have as much as 20% IE6 users, and others less than 1%. So, on some I ignore IE6 altogether, and others I try to accommodate it as much as possible without going to extreme lengths, while with a few I’m fully shackled to it. Unfortunately there’s no getting around the fact that IE6 still exists.

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