Posts from the category Browsers

Based in the results of the Acid3 and HTML5 tests we can see that Safari holds a huge advantage over Opera Mini 5 in the iPhone OS, corroborating my review of the Opera Mini rendering. Acid3 Test Thanks to Lars: What these images show is the difference between having JavaScript in in the browser or…

Opera Mini 5 is now available in the App Store, and it has some bugs while rendering some web pages. The main objective of a browser is not its velocity to load a webpage, but to render it correctly respecting the standards, so the page is visually identical as it was designed. Here are some…

This video shows a velocity test between the new Opera Mini 5 and Safari in an iPhone 3GS. Opera Mini wins for a long distance, since its software is designed to first call the web page in Opera servers where it is compressed and then finally resend to the device. That is why the first…

This table shows the Browsers compatibility with CSS3 Properties, Internet Explorer is the worst, and then Opera is not that good either. The best in the table are Chrome and Safari.

Firefox 3.6 has removed the option to see Image Properties in the contextual menu when you do a right click. Now you have to use View Image Info or View Page Info to see the properties, but this opens a huge new page of the Media tab, which is too bulky. For me as a…

Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox Development, gives us an overview of the novelties in Firefox 3.6. Download Firefox 3.6 and try it yourself. Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users. This version…

Instantly change the look of your Firefox with thousands of lightweight themes. Call me crazy but I do remember this option to put a picture as a background in the 90s with IE5, or am I really crazy? Anyway, I do love FF. The Firefox Personas Gallery looks great.