Web Application Development Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Browser comparisons
Oct 15th
More comparisons among browsers… Six Revisions has performed some tests to the most important browsers.
The tools used to perform these tests are:
- SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
- SlickSpeed (jQuery values reported)
- Numion stopwatch
- CSS Rendering Benchmark
- Resource Monitor
And this is the result they came up with:
Tired of IE’s issues? Turn it into Google Chrome
Oct 8th
As web programmers, we’ve all dealed with IE’s incompatibility issues and its sluggishness, and I can assure that 99% of all of us are tired of how stubborn Microsoft is about not implementing web standards and trying to enforce its own private ways of doing things (although with the release of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has showed a bit of effort in trying to be more standards compliant). How much time have we wasted on writing workarounds for IE for code that works seamlessly in other browsers?
Well, Google seems to be worried about this as well, and now gives us one more possibility to solve the problem: turn Internet Explorer into Google Chrome.
Open Source Software
Oct 5th
There’s no doubt that nowadays open source software is everywhere you look at… including this same blog. One could say that Information Technologies have gotten to where they are now partially because of open source software. Either if you are an active open source programmer or you think that open source software is the reincarnation of the Devil on Earth, a good outlook and a small synthesis of what it means is always good to have.
My name is Oliver Mezquita Prieto, and I'm a Software Engineer focused on web application development, both serverside and clientside, using ASP.NET technology.
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