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Reading blogs on a mac using Firefox

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’ve been on a Mac (OSX) for a little while now and generally I’m having a nice time, except when it comes to reading some (but only some) blogs!
We all know that font sizes are different across browser and platform, but Firefox on a mac occasionally makes life a little difficult particularly when it comes […]

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Firefox Web Developer Toolbar

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Scott Stroz (aka boyzoid) has a nice little post on the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick.
The toolbar (which has been around for ages) is a must have for any web developer, I thought I’d post some of the tools including their shortcuts which I use regularly.
CSS

Viewing CSS - Ctrl+Shift+C
Opens up a new […]

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HTML pre-launch flight check

Friday, August 25th, 2006

AnyBrowser have a lot of tools for you to use when validating and preparing your website for deployment including:

Screen Size Test
Meta Tag Creator
HTML Validation
Link checking
Engine View (See how your site might get listed by search engine spiders.)

Not a bad list, don’t forget that ALL web developers should validate their pages, perform link checking and test […]

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Flash of Unstyled Content

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

The lovely people (person?) over at Blue Robot have coined a term ‘FOUC’; or Flash of Unstyled Content.
This is that annoying ‘bug’ in Windows IE where a user can see the entire body of the page their trying to view ‘unstyled’ (particularly for page layout) for a moment before the stylesheet kicks in. If the […]

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