Posts Tagged "browsers"

Ad Blockers, Browser Plugins and Imagination

Posted by Kevin Dees on Nov 7, 2011 in Design, Journal, Programming | 0 comments

On the topic of desktop browsers never use CSS class names or ID’s that smell bad to ad blockers in your HTML. The Firefox Ad Blocker is notorious for braking sites. This means names like: Ad or ads, Campaign, Sponsors, Partners, Endorsement, Ect.

Amazon Silk and the Kindle Fire

Posted by Kevin Dees on Sep 30, 2011 in Design, Journal, Programming | 3 comments

Silk. Amazon has named its tablet browser. However, I think they might have forgotten it was Opera who invented the idea of server compressed sites.

I commented about this on Silk’s blog, WordPress by the way, but Amazon decided not to approve it.

Regardless we have one more browser to support. More importantly, with the last big player cashing into the tablet market, “responsive web design” is now a must. And, we loose 168 portrait pixels when compared to the iPad.

Read: How Browsers Work

Posted by Kevin Dees on Aug 22, 2011 in Links, Programming | 0 comments

This document is an excellent breakdown of how browsers work. If you don’t know how they work, there is no reason not too now.

View the site now.