Tag: SAFARI

Saving a multi-page article to Instapaper can be a pain. Caching each page individually takes several clicks, and some sites don't offer a single-page view of their articles. If you're using Safari 5, you can get around this problem with Safari Reader. When you activate Safari Reader, you'll get a highly readable text-only view that usually includes the entire article, all on one page. If you ...

Asa Dotzler, not content with graphing the total run-time of the SunSpider benchmark, has provided a beautiful chart that breaks down the JavaScript performance of Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome. Take a look at it above, or click through to see a larger version. Internet Explorer 8 is missing because it was too slow -- and IE9 is missing because the test machine ran Windows XP, but Asa says ...

The browser ballot screen that Windows users in the EU have started to see since March, which was supposed to lessen the monopolistic stronghold that Internet Explorer has on browser market share, has proved to be quite useless. New data shows that the differences in browser use trends between the EU and the world from January to October are within the error margin. This is despite Opera's past ...

YouTube's Leanback isn't the only big screen TV game in town anymore -- Vimeo's gone and launched its own TV viewing experience, cunningly called, Couch Mode. As the name implies, it's all about watching from the comfort of your sofa, using a 10-foot interface, letting you get on with enjoying interesting videos, and not having to squint to read a tiny UI. Couch Mode still lets you do all ...

Apple's mobile incarnation of Safari on iOS is certainly one of the best mobile browsers in the business. It's pretty fast, handles rendering well, and will even sync bookmarks with your desktop. But it's not perfect – there are many things it can't do, and although Apple won't allow browsers on the App Store that use their own rendering engines, there's a whole host of WebKit-based ...

We've covered security holes in Safari's AutoFill function before, but now there's a new one on the loose -- and Apple has thus far left it unpatched. AutoFill is the feature that quickly fills out forms for you using information you've previously entered. It can store everything from your name and address to your credit card and Social Security numbers. Now, one security expert has figured out ...

One of the most talked about features in Safari 5 has been its Reader function -- Apple's built-in implementation of the Readability bookmarklet. Both are nice ways to reformat articles on blog or news sites for distraction-free reading. If you like the look of Safari Reader but would rather not change from Google Chrome or Firefox, don't worry. The iReader extension brings the same ...

An interesting report, titled 'Are Opera Users the Most Valuable?' has been making the rounds this week. The commentary has been opinionated and fiery and, truth be told, we're still no closer to working out why Opera users click the most ads. If you don't want to click through, the basic gist is this: Opera users are 50% more likely to click ads than Chrome users. Internet Explorer are the ...

Here's one for the font nerds: there's a CSS declaration called optimizeLegibility that fixes kerning and ligatures in a lot of Web fonts. For the less design-savvy amongst us, that means it makes sure certain letter pairs are spaced properly and combined into special characters where appropriate. Designers don't always use optimizeLegibility, though, so it's time to take matters into your own ...

Apple's Safari browser has a major security hole that malicious sites can use to steal your personal data, including your address and phone number. If you have any of the "AutoFill web forms" boxes checked, a site can snag information from your Address Book entry without your knowledge. To turn that feature off, open up preferences and click AutoFill. Most people don't put things like credit ...

The Gmail team continues to push HTML5 hard, and their latest efforts mean that Safari users can now drag and drop attachments onto their Gmail window (just like Chrome and Firefox users have been able to do for a while). The same goes for dragging images into messages. One feature that Safari users now have over Firefox users is that "new windows outlive the original Gmail window." This means ...

There's no question that the iPad (and most newer iPhones and iPod touches) can run Flash. Just in case you wanted some "pics or it didn't happen"-style proof, the same dev who brought us the Spirit jailbreak decided to port the mobile Flash plug-in for Android to Apple's iOS. The demo video looks pretty dang good, and @comex's latest is yet another reason why you might want to jailbreak ...

Google Chrome continues its charge ahead, and has finally overtaken Safari to become the third most popular browser in the United States. With 8.97% of the total browser market, Chome now sits behind only Firefox and Internet Explorer -- both of which will take a little more time to catch. Globally, Chrome fares better still -- with a 9.4% share. That's a pretty meteoric rise for a relatively ...

We recently told you about a Chrome extension that blocks Tynt, which is a service that some sites use to add a URL or other text to anything you copy from them. Safari users who dislike Tynt can now block it with an extension of their own. Of course, this will only work in Safari 5, so make sure you've updated to the latest version. We got an insightful comment on that post from a Tynt VP who ...

Developing for the Web can get quite rough at times, especially when IE is involved. Even when you take IE out of the picture (which you can't really do), there are still myriad differences among browsers, particularly in the implementation of newer technologies such as CSS3 and HTML5. When can I use ... is invaluable for answering questions such as "Should I be using the new HTML5 video tag in ...