All blog posts tagged with browser

No-Win on Browser Support

Posted December 22, 2011

Once again in my life, this beast rears his ugly head. The scenario: customer and employer want HTML5 site (complete with animations, CSS3, gradients, rounded-borders, the whole shtick) - BUT, they want it to work in ancient browsers.

I'm getting so sick of this. 

Oh - and did I forget to mention t…

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JVM Ruby vs. ECMA Ruby

Posted September 27, 2009

I've seen a few projects rearing up to try to port Ruby to JavaScript (such as HotRuby). This is all entertaining and everything, but here's a few problems as I see it:

  1. You are still limited to JavaScript's security model
  2. You are still limited to JavaScript's single-thread architecture
  3. JavaScript i…

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Internet Explorer Irregularities

Posted August 7, 2009

Much has been written about the oddities and irregularities (and standards non-compliance) of Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, but I felt I should publish this one not only for posterity, but also as a helpful hint to other programmers who might need the functionality.

First, some background. I had …

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