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Introduction to Opera Dragonfly

Chris Mills post a large article about the Dragonfly — the new tool for web developers. Here's the shor table of contents of this article:

  • Where to get Dragonfly from

  • How to access Dragonfly

  • An overview of the UI

  • How to perform basic tasks

  • Summary

Source: Opera Developer Community.

Developer's Notebook: Find computed styles in IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari

Brian Billard tells about debugging tools for various browsers. Here's the short list of disscussed tools:

  • Internet Explorer 8 and DebugBar

  • Opera 9 Developer Console

  • Safari 3 Web Inspector

  • Firefox 3 and Firebug

Source: Agile Ajax.

First look: AT&T’s Pogo browser beta tries too hard, fails

There is an intresting artile about the new browser fromAT&T written by Jacque Cheng. He writes:

«AT&T has opened up a private beta of its new, hyper-visual web browser named Pogo. Yes, you read that right—AT&T is diving into the web browser market with a new creation of its own, based on Mozilla and 3D technology from Vizible, a Canada-based company that AT&T has invested in. The goal is to create a web browsing experience that is more robust than the crufty old browsers that we have all grown accustomed to. The software is not yet open to the public, but we had an opportunity to test out Pogo and see what it was all about.

First off, Pogo is Windows-only, and AT&T makes no indication that it will be available for the Mac anytime soon (or ever). It requires Windows XP SP2 or later or Windows Vista, and its minimum hardware are surprisingly steep: a 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 256MB of VRAM. Seem like a bit much for a web browser? It is, and as we found out, these requirements posed some major challenges for us during our testing.»

You can read full version of this article in ars technica magazine.

Introducing CSS Gradients

Dave Hyatt write an article about the supports gradiernts in WebKit. He writes:

«WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients.

The syntax is as follows:

-webkit-gradient(<type>, <point> [, <radius>]?, <point> [, <radius>]? [, <stop>]*)

The type of a gradient is either linear or radial.

Safari 3.1 on Windows: a true competitor arrives (seriously)

Ken Fisher writes about new version of Safari browser in his new articte posted on Ars Technica magazine. He writes:

Safari 3.1

Safari 3.1 is out with the followwwing improvments and changes:

Performance

  • Improves JavaScript performance

Standards

The Browsers of 2009

John Resig write about thed futures of the browsers in his blog. He tells about some intresting predictions on 2008-2009 years:

«For example, I would probably rate the current, 2008, list as follows (in order of cost-benefit):

  • IE 6

  • IE 7

  • Firefox 2

  • Safari 2 & Safari 3 (tie)

  • -- common cut-off point --

  • IE 5.5

  • Opera 9.2

Starting in 2009 I predict that the list will be similar to the following:

  • IE 7

  • IE 6

  • Firefox 3

  • Safari 3

  • -- common cut-off point --

  • Opera 9.5

Microsoft's Internet Explorer Czar Says IE8 Details Coming "Soon"

The AJAXWorld Magazine has revealed some details about the next version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Here is small excert from interview with IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch -

"As I’ve walked different people through the plan, I’ve gotten 'Does it have feature X?' “When is the beta?' 'When does it release' and even the more thoughtful 'What are you trying to accomplish with this release?'

You will hear a lot more from us soon on this blog and in other places."

Ten New Things in WebKit 3

In this article one of  the creators of WebKit Open Source project  tells about it new features such as Enhanced Rich Text Edition an  Xpath supporting. Also there is some speed test shoing what the speed of JavaScript and DOM operation was greatly imroved.
Source: Surfin'  Safari

Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world

An intresting article about mobile internet   was published at Opera Developer Community site by Brian Suda.
The first part of article contain an theoretical information  about mobile devicas and mobile web.  Also author analyze the audience of mobile sites  there .
In the second part   author showing to reader how to  build a good  mobile web site on examples of two sites.

You can read this article here

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