Tag Archives: Browsers
Getting Ready For HTTP 2.0
February 18, 2015, by mark.anderson
HTTP is the underlying mechanism that runs the web. It is the language spoken by browsers and web servers to communicate, download webpage elements and upload user data. The version we currently use is 1.1, a specification that is now almost 15 years old... Read More
Spartan and Vivaldi: The new kids on the browser block
February 4, 2015, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
It's a good time in browserland, with two new browsers set to enter the field in 2015. Microsoft is offering Project Spartan, powered by a new rendering engine, EdgeHTML.dll, while ex-Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner's new start-up is offering Vivaldi, which uses the Blink rendering engine. Browser diversity is alive and kicking, it seems, and that can only be a good thing... Read More
Standards and browser compatibility
January 19, 2015, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Browser compatibility is hard. Especially on mobile. If you thought things were difficult 10 years ago when there were only a handful of browsers to contend with, then thinking about the situation for mobile may make you dizzy or depressed. For now we live in a world of tens of thousands of devices of wildly variable shapes and sizes and capabilities. And we have to make the web work on all of them... Read More
Detecting Language Preference from the Browser with Accept Header
October 22, 2014, by Martin Clancy
Some time ago I was on a trip to Germany for the Smashing Mag event. Several websites I visited (including the world’s largest search engine) asked me to confirm my language preferences based on my current physical location. This struck me as a rather inefficient approach to setting language preferences. Especially given the language of the browser is readily available to web publishers as part of the HTTP request... Read More
Mobile-friendliness 101: Adding click-to-call links to a website
August 12, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Creating a site that works well across all devices can be a daunting task. However, there are some simple things that you can do that can have a big impact on a site's usability. Click-to-call is one such feature: it's simple, effective, and very easy to implement... Read More
