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Cross-browser compatibility, often times a nightmare to web developers. When you have to target various browser versions, such as Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 together, it becomes nearly impossible to use the same machine to host these applications together. You could use a VPS and there are some tricks allowing one to run IE [...]

Window 7 introduced a neat feature where you can preview the window of an application by putting your mouse over it in the taskbar. Most modern browsers, including Firefox, have made use of this Windows 7 feature and are now using it to display all the tabs in the taskbar. However not everyone finds it [...]

Recently Google researched the effect that an increase in a page’s loading time has over its visitors. They concluded that even an increase as little as 300ms has a significant impact on the user’s browsing behavior. In the 6-week experiment, 0.2 to 0.6% less searches were performed as a result of the .3 second increase [...]

If you find yourself using Gmail often, and doing it through the browser based client, there’s an exciting theme for Gmail that you might want to have a look at. It works as an add-on in Firefox that replaces Google’s CSS file for the Gmail interface. It works for all of Gmail’s interface, skinning the [...]

Browse around the web for a couple of hours and you’ll end up on a site that requires you to log in before you get to see some of their content. Many times registering is free but by the time you know it, they’re asking you of diseases in your family history, then they send [...]