How to install Opera 10 Alpha under Linux
Opera claims that a alpha or beta version will not interfere with a standard installation, but that’s mainly true for Windows. For Linux you have to be a bit more carefull, but still it’s easy. How do...
View ArticleWhat about Microsoft Internet Explorer 6?
Use it at your own risk! Consider yourself lucky if it serves any accessible and well-formatted content on the web and always be aware you could miss something: you can’t expect seeing colors on a...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome joins Opera in SVG background image support
I always liked Opera’s support for SVG, and I really welcomed their initiative to treat SVG as any other image type, like jpg or gif or png. After all SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a vector-image...
View ArticleBrowser performance and CPU load
Chromium is using 2 cores and Opera isn’t running full speed on Sunspider JS benchmark. That is the outcome of a simple test running TOP while taking the sunspider benchmark on a quadcore (AMD 630)...
View ArticleThe beauty of WebGL
We have seen some demo’s with fishtanks and aquariums, but I found a much more elegant showcase here. It stresses the beauty of infinity and brings focus to the relationship between simplicity and...
View ArticleWhy I use Opera as my main browser
Yeah, I use it since the Phoenix Alpha’s but the main reason is… Because it has the shortest vendor-prefix: -o-
View ArticleIs Google’s Chrome Reduced Pagerank a penalty (II)?!
Actually I doubt if there is any real penalty. Probably Google will advertise more; that will raise the bidding for adds on `browser` keywords. So Microsoft has to pay more for there adds for Internet...
View ArticleScreens are getting bigger and wider and uberwide: 30720×768
While taking a look at the screen-resolution tab of the Technology -> Browsers and OS section of Google analytics for this site, I found a visitor with a baffling 30720×768 screen-resolution. I...
View ArticleMajor Android vulnerability for Samsung Galaxy phones (and others)
There is a major risk to lose all your data when you’re using the internet with your Samsung Galaxy phone. Your phone will reset. You can test here to see if your vulnerable:...
View ArticleCheer Presto Prestissimo to the great Opera Singer
I just posted this on the Opera Wishlist forum: Please keep Opera Classic (=Opera Presto) around for some time(years) with just necessary security patches applied. In honour of those who shed sweat and...
View ArticleBreaking the bad, pushing a worse internet
Some (and not all are alchemy wizards) are claiming that users break the internet by disabling JavaScript. What is JavaScript? It is one of the three (technical) pillars of websites. The other two are...
View ArticleFixing Tracking Contact Form 7 with Google Analytics in WordPress
Contact Form 7 advices to add this code to the Additional Settings field at the bottom of the contact form management page Actually that is a bad idea. Be tracked by Google is not every one’s favourite...
View ArticleBreaking the bad, pushing a worse internet (part II)
In an earlier post we lamented the behavior of multinationals by dropping noble classic Internet principles like Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement to strengthen their business model at a...
View ArticleInstall Android browsers without Google Play
Android is the most used operating system for phones. Unfortunately software updates for android phones are not always available nowadays, so the only way to keep your phone secure and up-to-date, is...
View ArticleSorting with grid
A while ago we showed you a way to use flexbox for sorting lists and tables. This month the powerful CSS Grid layout system went unprefixed in all major browsers. In short Grid is for two dimension...
View ArticleSetting up openVPN on Ubuntu, fixing import errors
You can run into trouble importing an .ovpn config file in Ubuntu, while the same file is imported without any problem in Android. Somehow when there are unknown or not-supported sections in the config...
View ArticleWeb-extension compatibility in the cookieStore
Since Firefox embraced the Web-extension API, life is easier for developers: extensions should be compatible with Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Edge, and Firefox Mobile. So Firefox Android became my favorite...
View ArticleSecurity by design: following the right principle
Since there was some attention to a CSS driven keylogger, it’s good again to point out the security risks of third party content. That risk is huge. When a third party CSS Stylesheet can steal your...
View ArticleKeeping the old TinyMCE editor while upgrading to WordPress 5.0
WordPress 5 introduces a new block editor. Playing with the layout is easier this way, but on the other hand, writing a new post should not take more time than typing the text. Layout is in the theme....
View ArticleFixing the iPhone CSS hover problem on iOS
Mobile phones don’t have a mouse, your greasy fat touchy fingers have to do the job, they kinda act like a giant mouse. There is major difference: a mouse can click, drag and hover above the screen,...
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