Tagged with firefox

CSS3 Multiple background images

Firefox 3.6 supports multiple background images so I thought it was time to give them a go and figure out how they work. May contain small rant about beautiful markup.
Published in CSS on Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Dust-me selector tool for finding unused CSS selectors

My find for today was a Firefox extension called Dust-Me Selectors from the SitePoint guys that scans a web site looking for unused selectors in the CSS. It extracts the style references for the current page and then looks at the page to see where they are used. It can look at the current page or [...]
Published in CSS, Tools on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Firefox mouse gestures

One of the guys at work inspired me to try a mouse gestures plugins for Firefox today. For the uninitiated, mouse gestures are like keyboard shortcuts for the mouse. Instead of holding ctrl+c, you do a little drawing on the screen while holding down the right mouse button to make something happen. For example when you [...]
Published in Browsers on Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Focus event handler run in different order in IE than Firefox

I wanted to document a bit of an edge case browser incompatibility that I found: that event handlers aren’t always run in the same order in IE as they do in other browsers. It’s a bit of a strange case where we were doing something not entirely sensible. :) There was an input box which had [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Firefox crash recovery: I am in love

Ok, I’m now officially in love with Firefox. My Vista install has mysteriously become flaky recently and is randomly taking down programs. When Firefox crashed, not only did it remember which tabs I had open, it also remembered the contents of what was in the form that I was filling in at the time of the [...]
Published in Browsers on Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Extreme nesting experiment in IE and Firefox

On the ever interesting topic of curiosity over good sense, I had an interesting discussion about how far you can nest HTML tables in different browsers. The person I was talking to had noticed that at a certain point the tables just stopped displaying when they tried to take their web rendering to an extreme [...]
Published in Web development on Saturday, August 4th, 2007

View Rendered Source in IE

I’m doing a lot of work with javascript that modifies the DOM so I really like tools like the Firefox rendered source chart plugin so I can see what’s actually going on in my page. Rendered source chart in particular is a very slick plugin. It not only takes everything in the DOM and shows it [...]
Published in Tools, Web development on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Child and sibling selectors

I was trying to style a bit of html without having to add a new class into the markup and came across two types of CSS selectors that I haven’t used before called child and sibling selectors. You can use child selectors to target the direct children of an element. The syntax is parent > [...]
Published in CSS on Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Why accessibility is important

Last time I wanted to update my McAfee virus subscription they told me that I couldn’t download the latest version of the software using Firefox. The only option I had to download the software was to use IE. I couldn’t find another way to download the product. So say we take a fairly conservative view [...]
Published in Web development on Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Bookmark: web developer toolbars

Here’s a quick link for myself for the web developer toolbars you can install for Firefox and IE6. I love them because the web developer toolbars make doing clientside work so much easier. They give you tools to find out information about the page that you’re working on without having to do a million alert statements. [...]
Published in Browsers, Tools, Web development on Monday, June 5th, 2006

Disabling animated gifs in firefox

Animated gifs drive me absolutely crazy. To turn them off in firefox: 1. Type “about:config” in the location bar 2. Find the “image.animation_mode” parameter and change it to “once” or “none” Have I mentioned how much I love firefox? Power to the people! The geeks shall inherit the earth. Reference: Post in the UserFriendly forums
Published in Web development on Wednesday, December 8th, 2004