January 31, 2008 at 11:24 am · Filed under Interesting, News
Facebook is a great social network but along with the good things some bad things also comes. Facebook is built on application framework and it’s possible to add new applications to extend your Facebook functionality. You can send a invite to join your friends to add a specific application that you’ve added and it will wait at the queue at your friends requests page. Sometimes it’s so annoying to see too many requests and all you can do to prevent that is to press ignore each one of them or go to the application and block it which is a painful process. Recently IgnoreAll.com came up with their javascript based browser bookmarklet that will click on all the ignore buttons on the requests page. So now Facebook introduces “Clear All” option if you have more than 25 requests on your request page.
Too many requests?
We’ve added a “clear-all” option for when you have lots of requests waiting on your Requests page.
Well I think they shouldn’t put the option for not only for more than 25 requests but for any requests.
January 26, 2008 at 3:52 am · Filed under Development
Microsoft has announced at December 2007 that Internet Explorer 8 has passed a test for standards compliance. Well it’s really hard to believe and it brings more questions to the Web Developers face.
The Acid2 test
Microsoft’s still top-secret Internet Explorer 8 passed what is known as the Acid2 test. Acid2 is a test case designed by the Web Standards Project to discover, if possible, errors with rendering Web pages in browsers and Web authoring tools. Basically, it tests how a browser or tool works with features from various Web standards.
The following standards are involved in the Acid2 test page: HTML 4, CSS level 1, PNG, and data URLs. In addition, the Acid2 guided tour overview page defines these features that are included in the test:
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January 26, 2008 at 3:17 am · Filed under Development
There are many Web Browsers available on the market. Almost all of them are free and yet they have their own "Complications" in rendering a same site in different way. Any web developer's headache is to make sure that their website looks same on different kind of browsers.. Ah.. Given the wealth of browsers and versions along with operating systems, this is easier said than done.
If we take a moment and look back at the browser statistics for 2007 you will found out:
and other browsers with very small shares. So market leaders are namely 3 or 4 web browsers namely Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Does that means if you test your web application with this 4 browsers will solve the issue?
Don't forget the amount of Windows Mobile and other PDA is coming up daily, Each of the PDA and smart phones, they have their unique browser rendering system along with different screen sizes..
Anyway, how you should test your site with multiple browsers? You will found out that the most problems comes from Internet Explorer rendering of sites. Internet Explorer tends not to follow the W3C web standards for browser rendering. Yes I know you can put few on your system but there is a huge rendering gap between Internet Explorer 6 and 7. So how you want to test using IE6 and IE7 in the same machine. Well you can't Install all of them together cause they are using same DLL names and libraries. Technology has the advantage to give solutions in this situations.
Here are the possible solutions:
Are you looking for older browsers or a place where you can find all kind of browsers archive then don't forget to check out Older Browsers Archive at evolt.org. Another path that may be followed is using a third-party service to test a Web application via multiple browser platforms. You could choose an offshore company to test with various platforms or use a free service like Browsershots or a paid service like BrowserCam.
The boom in mobile device usage means this ever-expanding user community should not be ignored. Like personal computers, you can assemble a group of mobile devices to use for testing, or you can use third-party services and products to assist with mobile testing. A great resource is the DotMobi Virtual Developer Lab, which provides access to hundreds of mobile devices for testing.
While most developers think an application is ready once their work is done, you still need to conduct extensive testing to ensure the product delivered actually meets project expectations and behaves consistently within the target set of browsers. There are many ways to go when testing with multiple browsers as you may choose to set up multiple machines, use virtualization, or even go with a third-party service or organization
