One of the things that I’m passionate about in my role at Microsoft is helping developers ensure that their sites provide an awesome experience in every browser. Yeah, yeah I know it seems odd that a Microsoft evangelist would say… Continue Reading
I’ve had the good fortune of working with my friend Jonathan Sampson recently on figuring out how to help developers build plugin-free experiences. With IE10 Metro going plugin-free, it’s incredibly important to document steps to help developers provide their users… Continue Reading
Document compatibility defines how a browser renders your website. The more specific you are at telling the browser what to expect, the better the experience for your users. When using web standards like HTML5, start by explicitly declaring the HTML5… Continue Reading
In my last post, I went over how to use IE9′s Site Pinning API to implement overlay icons to enhance user notifications. The demo focused on how to display a numeric icon to indicate when a specific event (e.g.: messages… Continue Reading
I was recently doing some testing of IE9’s Site Pinning API and found out about a cool bit of functionality that can enhance user notifications. If you’re not familiar with site pinning, it’s a great way to allow users to… Continue Reading
With Internet Explorer 9 Beta is out, I’m poking around with some of the new features available. One of the new features called website pinning allows you to “pin” a website to your Windows 7 taskbar for easy access later.… Continue Reading
Wow, I can’t believe this day has come! After so many years of developers wishing for a better browser from Microsoft, one that was more consistent with web standards and would allow them to develop cross-browser websites leveraging the same… Continue Reading
Yesterday, I wrote about an issue I was having with Google & Safari’s way of handling text selection & the “mouseup” event versus Firefox & IE. I installed Opera 10.51 as well to ensure I tested this on the major… Continue Reading
I needed to write a quick bit of code today to track when a user selects any text on a page. The key was to bind a method to the “mouseup” event which would grab the selected text and do… Continue Reading
I just did a post over on Ajaxian about Pingdom’s recent analysis of how frequently users upgrade their browsers. It’s a very conflicting topic for me which is why I chose to discuss it here. From the report, it shows… Continue Reading