Posts Tagged ‘browser

A couple of days back I created a Firefox toolbar for my blog as an experiment in learning XUL. Once installed on my blog I wanted Firefox to recognize it as an addon and install it rather than displaying a ‘save/open’ dialog. For that I needed to add the following directive to the servers .htaccess [...]

Google Chrome Beta for Windows is finally here. There are many factors that make this browser interesting; being open source and using the WebKit rendering engine is one of them. But one of the great things is the speed of the JavaScript engine. Chrome uses Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine, and it is amazingly [...]

WebSlices, what? Internet Explorer 8 has introduced a new feature, WebSlices. In a nutshell, WebSlices enable websites to connect with users by allowing them subscribe to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like RSS feeds, but instead of subscribing to XML feeds you subscribe to portions of a particular website and receive updates [...]