I’m forever on the hunt for trade tools that make a job easier, faster, and more interesting. In my quest for better browser dev tools I’ve come across a few great Safari extensions. Here’s the short list, a few choice add-ons to evolve Safari into a better web development weapon.
I’m making a prediction: Within 5 years the avarage user will be working on a “smart” phone/device as their primary computer.
One caveat, replacing laptops and desktops with a smart phone in the workplace will take quite a bit longer. However, I’m betting…
If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for a way to increase productivity, and cut build time when creating or updating websites. Keeping track of styles throughout multiple stylesheets can get time consuming, not to mention burdensome. Enter the @media rule which allows you to pull your screen, print, or handheld css styles together [...]
Since the release of Internet Explorer 6 in August of 2001, web designers and developers world wide had been petitioning Microsoft to update the application to better handle web standards. You could even make a case that IE6 had been de facto contributor to popularize the turn-of-the-century web standards revolution. A fight that continues today [...]
An opt-in Flash blocking plugin for Safari. Since Safari is my browser of choice, and since Apple is far from being as open as the framework Safari is built on, you really need to dig to find solid plugins for Safari that truly enhance your browsing experience. ClickToFlash is a Safari plugin that, in my [...]
Microsoft just cannot help themselves but to create old, inaccessible and antiquated software – case in point: Outlook 2010. On the up-side, the web is banding together to collectively tell Microsoft to fix their bad ideas.
Firefox grows up a bit, adds a grip of great new technologies, all while pushing the web (and other browsers) in new and positive ways. This might just become my new favorite browser, but the jury is still out.
I’ve downloaded it, kicked the wheels, looked under the hood – heck, I’ve even mod’ed it already and in just one word – wow!
There was a time on the web, in a not so distant past, when JavaScript was considered the voodoo scripting language of all that is sinister on the internet. A corrupt, and evil force, marked as the magic language of criminal hackers, scam artisits, even the doorway to viruses, worm attacks and pornographic popups — [...]
Today, well actually it slipped yesterday, Google officially released news about their up and coming web browser Google Chrome. Chrome is another step in creating a cloud computing OS, apparently through a browser, based entirely on open source code. Chrome is based on the existing rendering engine Webkit with Firefox underpinnings, Google also created its [...]