Very cool feature on Google Chrome; record your actions and playback later for bulletproof demos.
Category Archives: Browsers
Need to hack a browser?
Then http://browserhacks.com is the site for you!
20 snippets from HTML5 Boilerplate
Some good stuff on this article on 20 Snippets You should be using from Html5 Boilerplate.
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 for HTML5 developers
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 for HTML5 developers provides a really good breakdown on the changes and additions available for the new device/OS.
Cache them if you can
Great article on caching over at stevesouders.com.
Gamepad API
After years of Flash dragging its heals in the way of offering gamepad support, I’m very excited that Google Chrome (and soon Firefox) offers gamepad support via the Gamepad API. There’s a good breakdown on things in “Jumping the hurdles with the Gamepad API“. Looking forward to trying this out at home (where I have access to a joypad…or 37).
How to debug IE7 silent crashes
Experiencing a problem where a page randomly crashes in Internet Explorer 7 with no warning.
Work-in-progress blog posting, but found this so far: http://groups.google.com/group/IEToolbar-Group-Bugs/msg/fd808abaa72524ea?pli=1.
The crash report requires more Googling it seems:
Access violation – code c0000005 (first chance) eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=00000000 edx=00000007 esi=00219ec8 edi=00000000
eip=3cf6e923 esp=01e5ddf0 ebp=01e5ddf0 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz ac pe cy
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00210213
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:\W INNT\system32\mshtml.dll -
mshtml!DllGetClassObject+bfa45:
3cf6e923 8b490c mov ecx,[ecx+0xc] ds:0023:0000000c=????????
0:005>
Error Handling in ActionScript 3
Old (in internet years I guess) but great article on error handling in AS3.
Android Flash player version weirdness
If I visit playerversion.com in my HTC Desire Z’s Froyo browser it tells me I’m running “FL 10,1,123,425″, but when I navigate to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Adobe Flash Player 10.1 it tells me it’s version “10.1.92.10″.
I’m still relatively new to Android so this isn’t making immediate sense to me; either playerversion.com‘s JS need adjusting or there are two versions of the Flash player on my Android device. Or something else?!?
Edit: Adobe’s own version test page mirrors playerversion.com‘s findings. cisnky suggested trying a pure Flash-based version detection method, which’ll be my next move.
Edit 2: This Flash-based test mirrors the above; that the minor version I’m running is “123″.
Changing the User Agent on an Android phone
This posting on Lifehacker is very useful if Android’s tendancy towards bouncing you over to mobile versions of sites is annoying you. However, I noticed you can also play around with the Flash plug-in settings using this method too; switching between Flash 10 and Flash Lite (on Froyo anyway).