The HTML5 audio tag

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

I have been mucking around with the

Safari 4 is Pretty Good

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Safari 4 has been out for a couple of days now, and I must say I am enjoying using it. On the Mac, Safari has always had a great overall browser experience but Firefox always managed to stay my weapon of choice for viewing the Internet. This may change, ...

The HTML5 Video Tag’s Fatal Flaw

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Back in the day there was no standard way to publish video on the web. You could put any kind of video file you wanted on the server, but there was no guarantee that your readers would have the correct plugin required to view it. Everyone had to have a ...

Chrome

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

So Google is going where angels fear to tread, and has released a browser of their own: Chrome. This is a very interesting move; I can think of a few reasons why Google might think a custom browser might be a good idea: although everyone thinks of Google as a ...

A new font

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

To celebrate my blog reaching 100 published posts, I decided to buy it a new font. After researching font creation for a couple of days, I decided that it was all too complicated and sought professional help: Fontifier is a web service that takes the pain (and believe me it ...

Safari 3.1

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

The browser wars are starting to hot up again. Apple is making a late play for cross platform browsing by releasing Safari 3.1 onto the world. Safari is MacOS X's bundled browser - on the Mac it has always been pretty good, but the recent Windows versions have been terrible. ...