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IE8 Versus Chrome 1, Firefox 3, Safari 4 and Opera 9

ByJack Surveyer Posted on

This article could really be titled how IE8 measure against W3C and other Web Standards. So this is really a report on progress on picking up the pieces on W3C and Web standards since  Microsoft’s browser  embargo on all feature improvements to IE from 2001 to 2006. The Five Year Freeze imposed by Microsft went…

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EXTjs Designer Review

ByJack Surveyer Posted on

In a previous post on Web Design IDEs, mention was made of the just released EXTjs Designer which allows users to design an RIA JavaScript based interface using the EXTjs Framework. A review was promised – and so: For $219 one can now buy the Designer and develop EXTjs interfaces more rapidly than ever. I…

WordPress AMP for Mobile Speed
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WordPress AMP for Mobile Speed

ByJack Surveyer Posted on

AMP-Accelerated Mobile Pages is mobile page speed up technology pioneered by Google. Web & WordPress users have had to come to grips with major mobile speed deficits in the light of changes in mobile usage: The Global use of the Web has shifted from desktops to mobile devices – desktop=44%  vs  mobile devices=56%. There are…

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A Look at Mozilla Firefox

ByJack Surveyer Posted on

The NYTimes Technology section has a 3  page story on Mozilla and its most important product, the Firefox browser. This story is notable for 3 reasons. First, it acknowledges the signifigance of Mozilla’s Firefox which has a)become the most popular Open Source software with more than 300 million downloads and b)  wrested 25% of the…

Smart Slider 3: Best New Free WordPress Slider
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Smart Slider 3: Best New Free WordPress Slider

ByJack Surveyer Posted on

For the past year I have been recommending Cyclone Slider 2 as the best free WordPress Slider. But that has changed with the free version of Smart  Slider 3 contending for the top spot of free WordPress sliders. As we shall see the  two sliders are evenly matched so slight differences in features, ease of use, and…