Mental notes to myself » Browsers

IE7 did it again

Harun Yayli — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:38:17 +0000

It’s a big surprise for me to see Google Adsense is not working on IE7.
It’s because IE7 is blocking third party javascripts. It’s really a matter of Microsoft to decide to block Google.
Maybe Google Adsense will re-write the Adsense code to show it as a local javascript not to loose their 2 billion share in the pay per click scene.
And this will affect other ad programs like chitika, clicksor or else.
Say goodbye to your javascript ads if this feature on IE7 becomes official.
However it’s only in Micro$oft’s hand to do an exception for certain javascripts to run cross domain, but I don’t guess they will do that favour to Google any soon.

More on IE 7

Harun Yayli — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:04:54 +0000

It’s been a while not hearing something new about IE7.
I kind of wait for the RC stage. Until then I decided not to install it. At least without a VMWare.
Think about it, even release versions are buggy in M$ world, I can’t stand the bugs on betas too.

If you are interested here is the new “flashy” intro and download for IE7

Google is backing up Firefox

Harun Yayli — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:07:14 +0000

It seems the guys at Google backing up Firefox very well.
I’ve just seen the new option in Google Adsense for new Firefox banners.

So go ahead and download then install…
Paysback $1.00 to the publisher.

XUL

Harun Yayli — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:53:04 +0000

XML User Interface Language (XUL) is one of the not wellknown treasures of the browsers who understands it. e.g.: Firefox.
Google recenty did an XUL interface. Looks pretty nice. Worths checking it with Firefox and view the source.

PSP Browser

Harun Yayli — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:32:48 +0000

The update 2.0 for PSP is out so the internet browser…

here is the headers for PSP browser…
no gzip or other encoding it seems…

A huge warning : If you want to be PSP friendly website. Don’t use upper case letters in the URL.

Update: One of the biggest questions: No it doesn’t support AJAX
and CSS is a bit problematic for the div having absolute positioning in relative divs…

Timestamp:Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:24:45 +0000 SERVER:Array ( [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /*******/test [HTTP_ACCEPT] => */*;q=0.01 [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => [HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en [HTTP_CONNECTION] => Keep-Alive [HTTP_HOST] => test.tumbleside.com [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00) [PATH] => /*******/sbin [REMOTE_ADDR] => ******* [REMOTE_PORT] => 53356 [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /*******/browsers/infomailer.php [SERVER_ADDR] => ******* [SERVER_ADMIN] => ******* [SERVER_NAME] => test.tumbleside.com [SERVER_PORT] => 80 [SERVER_SIGNATURE] =>

Apache/1.3.33 Server at test.tumbleside.com Port 80


    [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.0 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

    [GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1

    [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1

    [REQUEST_METHOD] => GET

    [QUERY_STRING] =>

    [REQUEST_URI] => /browsers/infomailer.php

    [SCRIPT_NAME] => /browsers/infomailer.php

    [PATH_TRANSLATED] => /*******/infomailer.php

    [PHP_SELF] => /browsers/infomailer.php

    [argv] => Array

        (

        )

[argc] => 0 )

CSS Standards

Harun Yayli — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:19:06 +0000

If you want to test if your browser is CSS aware check this test:

acid2 test guide
The test

Windows Vista and IE7

Harun Yayli — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:56:14 +0000

Now both Windows Vista and IE7 is on beta…

We’ll see what will happen. I hope microsoft does not spoil RSS with IE7.

Links:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx

Roboform

Harun Yayli — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:55:04 +0000

Hello,
this time I’ll tell you about RoboForm.
Roboform is a tool that fills all the forms in a webpage for you.
It’s very simple to use. I use it everyday.
Simply install it on your USB drive (no install needed). Boom. You’ve passwords everywhere you go.
It encrypts your saved passwords with 3-DES or 1-DES (you select). So there is no problem if you loose you USB key.

It also has a desktop version too…

Download USB version: here.
Download Desktop version: here
Screenshots etc. : here

Opera 8.02 has integrated Bittorent Client

Harun Yayli — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:32:59 +0000

Opera 8.02 preview has released and it has integrated Bittorent client.
Diffrent strategy from opera.

An announcement from opera is expected tomorrow.

Preview of Opera 8.02 can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/