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*HTML/CSS CSS3 Gradient Buttons
Submitted by matt 137 days ago (more from webdesignerwall.com)How to put the CSS gradient feature to good practical use. Pure CSS: no image or Javascript is used. The gradient is cross-browser supported (IE, Firefox 3.6, Chrome, and Safari). Flexible and scalable. Three button states: normal, hover, and active. It can be applied to any HTML element: a, input, button, span, div, p, h3, etc. Fallback: if CSS3 is not supported, it will display a regular button.
*Tech News Move over Chrome, Opera now has the fastest JS engine
Submitted by matt 261 days ago (more from geektechnica.com)Most of us know that Opera has been at the forefront of Browser innovation for the longest time, yet remains at the bottom of pile when it comes to desktop browser market share. Its a sad story and even the best of us have a hard time figuring out why this is so. But this doesn’t stop Opera from making major innovations and changes with each new release.
*Programming Speed Tracer Diagnoses Where Your Web Site's Slowing Down
Submitted by matt 273 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)In their continued pledge to speed up the web, Google's launched a new Chrome extension called Speed Tracer designed to help developers diagnose what's slowing down page loads. Speed Tracer focuses on JavaScript execution in a way that other tools like YSlow and Page Speed don't.
*Tech News Google Chrome For Mac Is Here!
Submitted by matt 275 days ago (more from techcrunch.com)The wait is over. Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It’s still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable.
*Tech News Google Dumps Gears for HTML5
Submitted by matt 279 days ago (more from readwriteweb.com)It's official: Google is ditching its homegrown Gears offline web app API in favor of backing HTML5. Now that the Chrome browser is becoming available for Mac, and the Snow Leopard OS doesn't play nicely with Gears, a Google rep confirmed the company has decided to trash the whole works and wait for HTML5, even though the spec isn't yet ready and isn't supported by commercially available browsers.
*Tech News November 2009 browser stats: IE8 passes IE7
Submitted by matt 280 days ago (more from arstechnica.com)Internet Explorer 8 has passed Internet Explorer 7 and is about to pass Internet Explorer 6. Meanwhile, Firefox is almost at 25 percent, and Chrome readies to take on Safari.
*Tech News Google Chrome for Mac "developer preview" now official
Submitted by matt 321 days ago (more from arstechnica.com)Mac users now have an official version of Google's Chrome browser. We downloaded the preview to give it a good once over, and it seems stable enough for daily use.
*Tech News Mozilla Join Microsoft in Slamming Google Chrome Frame
Submitted by matt 331 days ago (more from sitepoint.com)This is a surprise. Mozilla has slammed Chrome Frame, the Google plugin that fixes Internet Explorer by providing the Chrome browser engine within the IE interface. Google decided that it was easier to create an IE plugin than make their new HTML5 applications backward-compatible with IE6, IE7 and IE8.
*Miscellaneous Detecting Chrome Frame
Submitted by matt 342 days ago (more from tamurajones.net)Chrome Frame is an Internet Explorer plug-in, but not just any plug-in; it includes the WebKit rendering engine and takes over from Trident when a page includes the Chrome meta-tag. The need may arise to detect whether it is already installed or not. For example, you only want to prompt for installation of Chrome Frame if it is not installed yet.
*Tech News IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
Submitted by matt 349 days ago (more from news.techworld.com)Microsoft's Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly ten times faster than usual when Google's new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show. According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) was 9.6 times faster than IE8 on its own.