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Apple Rumored to Move to New Video Codec
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation on HTML5 Video, and suggested that Apple may be the new evil empire for getting the world hooked on the H264 MPEG codec, and then collect massive royalties a few...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 6 – Stop Enabling Yesterday’s Browser
Internet Explorer 6 in its heyday was a great browser. It raised the bar so high, it stood alone; the other browsers languished in its wake. It had the backing of Microsoft to the tune of $100 million...
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Plain Text vs innerText vs textContent
innerText and textContent are properties that get or set the text of an element or all its children. Internet Explorer implemented innerText in version 4.0, and it’s a useful, if misunderstood feature....
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JavaScript Console Fix V2 Now with iOS!
The consoleFix.js has been a popular script, helping people overcome problems in the various browsers, but now, there are more features including support for your iPhone. consoleFix is a small...
View ArticleThe Impact of Chrome Dropping the H.264 Codec
Tweet This is an excerpt from my article on BetterVideo: Chrome recently made the announcement that they will soon discontinue support for the H.264 video codec. While end users may not care, nor...
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HTML5 is Dead
You read that right. One day after the W3C’s earth-shaking announcement to brand HTML5 with a new logo… The WHATWG announces that HTML5 will no longer exist. Hey, Ian Hickson says that the WHATWG...
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IE9 HTML5 Tests 99%… BOGUS
I’m really getting sick of reading how “HTML5 compliant” IE9 is. The IE team keeps pushing their testing chart that shows it passes 99% of the tests while the competitor browsers are no where close....
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Google Dart – Should JavaScript be Replaced?
A memo from a Google employee was leaked earlier this month exposing the new plan for Dart, which they claim to be a new programming language for structured web programming. The memo goes into some...
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A Dear John Letter to Firefox
Dear Firefox, We met when you were 1.5, and started dating when you were 2.0. We enjoyed making fun of my clueless ex, Internet Explorer. IE seemed great at the time, but you showed me the error of my...
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Web App or Web Site?
When Twitter went to an all-AJAX UI, I cheered that, especially the first real use of AJAX SEO, but I also questioned it. As a front end developer it was great for me to point to as an example of what...
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