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Skin firefox according to your mood. Change your Firefox themes without having to download, install and restart the browser using Firefox Personas. In this version, the Persona selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. All changes to the browser chrome are applied [...]
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Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website. The points covered in this are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups [...]
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If you’re working on Ajax based websites, you’ll always face usability problems when users click on the Back or Forward buttons on the broswer. Using Really Simple History (RSH) allows you over come this issue. The Really Simple History (RSH) framework makes it easy for AJAX applications to incorporate bookmarking and back and button support. [...]
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Google has released a beta version of Google Gears which is an open source browser extension which enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs. Here’s what you can do with the API’s: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve [...]
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Did you know that PHP has a built in function to detect which browser your visitor is running? Well neither did I till one of my collegues, Ansar, pointed out PHP’s get_browser function. Here’s how to use this function: < ? $visitorbrowser = get_browser(null,true); print_r($visitorbrowser); ?> The output of this function is an object which [...]
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Here’s a cool firefox extension for Gmail addicts called Gmail Manager. Gmail Manager allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. Manage multiple Gmail accounts Receive new mail notifications Support [...]
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Here’s a cool extension for Firefox which gives you a quick look at the javascripts which are linked within the HTML page. No more hunting for JS includes in the HTML source ! “All browsers include a “View Source” option, but none of them offer the ability to view the source code of external files. [...]
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Since Microsoft lost a legal battle on how they display multimedia conent in their browser, they’ve had to the change the way these content displays on screen. Now a user has to click these elements to start playing the flash animation. This affects Flash files, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java , Adobe Acrobat among others. It means [...]
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Here’s a cool plugin for Firefox which allows you to debug Ajax code. FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter. Other fun features: * XMLHttpRequest Spy – Ever wonder what all them [...]
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Microsoft is officially retiring IE for Mac from the end of January. They plan to stop updates by the end of December and downloads by the end of January Microsoft plans to discontinue support for its Internet Explorer browser on Mac OS X at the end of this year. The software developer mothballed the browser, [...]
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