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Cross Browser Testing

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I recently started using a new service called CrossBrowserTesting, and it’s so incredibly awesome I felt compelled to write a review.  First some background… Browser compatibility is a difficult challenge for all web designers and developers.  The process of debugging HTML, CSS, or Javascript problems that only occur on specific platforms is both tedious and frustrating.  At Sitening we run either Parallels or VMWare on our laptops so we can launch Windows and test the sites we’re working on.  Unfortunately, this is a time-consuming process, and the results are often suspect.  While it is possible to install multiple versions of IE, ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2578/cross-browser-testing

Google Chrome: Why?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
It’s been a few weeks since the release of Google’s Chrome, and many people have now had the opportunity to try it and comment on its potential impact on the browser landscape.  Much of the discussion has centered around how Chrome performs, what features it lacks, and how the interface compares to other browsers.  What has been less discussed is what I believe is Chrome’s reason for being, which is to get the other browser vendors to think outside the window tab box. Google has developed some incredibly rich interfaces for their web applications.  What we can infer from Chrome is ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2577/google-chrome-why

Firefox and Safari Are Aggressively Driving New Ways to Publish and Experience the Internet

Monday, August 25th, 2008
Apple just released Safari 4.0 Developer Preview to its developers. The new browser comes with several new features, including: CSS support for masks, gradients, reflections, and specifying a named canvas. Rudimentary support for the WAI-ARIA (Rich Internet Application) and cross-site XMLHttpRequest specifications. The ability to send messages between documents Storage of data either locally or just for the user’s session The option of running web applications outside of a browser or when disconnected from the network Canvas pixel manipulation Safari is still playing catchup to Firefox on some fronts. For example, Firefox has supported WAI-ARIA since version 1.5. However, the Safari team seems to be pushing the ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2877/firefox-and-safari-are-aggressively-driving-new-ways-to-publish-and-experience-the-internet

How to Grab a Screenshot of an Entire Web Page

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Web designers and marketers often need full-size screenshots for before-and-after shots and also for portfolio pieces. Fortunately, there’s many ways to create website screenshots. However, among all of the options, my favorite way to make full-length screenshots is by using Screengrab! — a Firefox Add-on. Using Screengrab! is about as easy as it gets. Simply bring up the page you want to grab and then click on the Screengrab! icon on the status bar. The result is a full-sized screenshot of the Web page. I used it to take a screenshot of Snipplr, our public code snippet repository for designers and programmers.

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2873/how-to-grab-a-screenshot-of-an-entire-web-page

New Firefox Extension Does Quick Domain Lookups

Monday, March 10th, 2008
Richard Kershaw of Quality Nonsense just launched a Firefox extension that makes it super easy to lookup domain names. The extension lets you perform one click domain searches at your registrar of choice using the selected text in your browser window. It’s super-simple: select the text for your domain search and hit the keyboard shortcut (CTRL + SHIFT + D by default). Alternatively, you can right click for the contextual menu and hit “Domain Lookup for…”. You can learn more and download it here: Domain Lookup Firefox Extension

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2872/new-firefox-extension-does-quick-domain-lookups

How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to setup a fast, high-capacity podcast website without spending a lot of money. A key component to this solution is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). S3 provides very cheap file storage and high-capacity delivery. That enables you to distribute your audio files to thousands of people at one ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2870/how-to-build-fast-high-capacity-podcast-sites-on-the-cheap

Microsoft Gives Away Early (or Late) Christmas Present to Web Designers

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
It is no secret that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 6 (and anything before it) is the bane of all Web Designers’ existence. If you’re a Web Designer and you don’t agree with that statement, then you are most certainly delusional and you probably hate Web Standards (assuming you’ve heard of them). IE 6 is best known for it’s inability to render transparent PNG images correctly and its poor handling of cascading stylesheets (CSS). It’s also known as the hack browser, because so many HTML and CSS hacks have been created to make it render Web pages correctly. To this day, Web ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2855/microsoft-gives-away-early-or-late-christmas-present-to-web-designers

How to View the Generated HTML Output from JavaScript Web Widgets

Thursday, December 27th, 2007
One of the best things to come from social networking and the so called Web 2.0 is the Web widget. Web widgets allow users to easily drop JavaScript code into their own website and instantly add content and features. Most Web widgets contain CSS ids and classes that allow the webmaster to alter the look-and-feel of the widget. However, most Web widget documentation is lacking or missing, and Web browsers won’t display the HTML output in the page source. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to view the HTML code created by these widgets. Using Firefox and the Web Developer Add-on, you ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2850/how-to-view-the-html-output-of-javascript-web-widgets

New Flash Player Breaks sIFR

Friday, December 14th, 2007
Adobe’s new Flash Player (version 9,0,115,0) does not work with earlier versions of sIFR 2. Mark Wubben, the current maintainer of the sIFR code, sent out an alert early this morning notifying everyone on the sIFR developer list. The problem arises when a designer has specified a hover color to a link. If they have, it breaks. Mark wrote the following to everyone on the list: sIFR 2’s links do not work with the new Flash Player 9,0,115,0 if a hover color is specified. This has been resolved in sIFR 2.0.4. If you use sIFR 2.0.3 and have a hover color specified ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/445/new-flash-player-breaks-sifr

Review of Flock 1.0 – Get Your Flock On!

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Having never heard about Flock before, I was curious to see if it was just another browser jumping on the social networking bandwagon. Being a dedicated Firefox user, taking advantage of its rich user experience at work and at home, Flock will have to work its pants off to get me to use it as my browser of choice — even 30% of the time. When you consider how far Firefox has come in a short amount of time, it’s pretty staggering to think that we once surfed the web without it. Ouch, my head hurts just thinking of having ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3024/review-flock-browser

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