Tag: browsers
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Tomorrow's Web, Today
Feeling optimistic about the technical future of the Web, Dan finds the opportunity to hack about with some promising new tools: Intersection Observers, Web Workers, Blobs, and the Fetch API.
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History of the browser user-agent string
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing...
WebAIM
Have you ever wondered why every major web browser identifies itself as "Mozilla"? Wonder no longer... -
Craziest Internet Explorer Bug Ever?
Dan discovers a crazy little bug in Internet Explorer 8 and below, and complains loudly about it. Bloody IE.
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KeePass for Opera
Dan develops a browser plugin for Opera to allow the KeePass Password Safe to work with Opera 12+, after the Opera team remove the feature upon which many KeePass users depended.
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A New Look
Dan redesigns the theme for scatmania.org, returning to sans-serif fonts and shades of blue... plus a few modern CSS features that he'd wanted to play with...
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IE6 Countdown
Microsoft have finally started telling people NOT to use Internet Explorer 6, an awful outdated browser that's holding the web back. If you're one of the minority that are still using it, then please stop. Please.
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New Look, New Protocols
This website's been updated with a shiny new theme and an exciting (well, if you're a geek) new IPv6 address. Read more about the changes here and let Dan know what you think by leaving a comment.
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Internet Explorer Exploit Of The Day
There's yet another killer Internet Explorer bug out there, which is manifesting itself in the form of a new trojan, Phel.A. This one only affects Windows PCs updated with SP2 (the supposedly 'safe' people) and works by confusing the 'trusted' and 'untrusted' zones.
I always find reports like this interesting, so I've written an exploit of …