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Copyright 1998-2012 Tweakers.net Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:10:25 GMT Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:10:25 GMT http://tweakers.net/reviews/76 Tweakblogs.net is the weblog service provided by Tweakers.net, the largest hardwaresite and techcommunity in the Netherlands. http://tweakblogs.net/ Tweakblogs.net http://tweakimg.net/g/if/logo.gif 60 60 Tweakblogs.net en http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/cat/87 Crisp's blog - Browsers frontpage@tweakers.net Lazy-loading print stylesheets - part II http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/6441/lazy-loading-print-stylesheets-part-ii.html Even though some browsers now defer downloading print stylesheets I thought this still wasn't enough. I was more thinking in line of: why not download the print stylesheet *only* when the user has actually requested a print-out? Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/6441/lazy-loading-print-stylesheets-part-ii.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/6441 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:25:00 GMT Code Groen! http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/6280/code-groen!.html "Werkt uw website naar behoren in Internet Explorer 9?" dat was het onderwerp van de mail die ik vandaag mocht ontvangen met betrekking tot onze site http://tweakers.net. "De afgelopen weken hebben wij de meest populaire websites van Nederland gecontroleerd op webstandaarden zoals die ook door Internet Explorer 9 ondersteund worden. Uw website hoort hier ook bij. Hieronder ziet u onze bevindingen. We hanteren drie gradaties: Groen, Oranje en Rood." En hoe ziet dat er uit? Lees verder »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/6280/code-groen!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/6280 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:34:00 GMT Internet Explorer 9 is the best HTML5 browser! http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5480/internet-explorer-9-is-the-best-html5-browser!.html Yes, really, look for yourself! It's the official result of the W3C HTML5 Test Suite! Of course, we at Tweakers.net already knew that. We have even dedicated a special page to Internet Explorer 9 and all its goodness and have 'optimized' some of our very own site-features for IE9 (see the two demo's at the bottom of the showcase page). And now even W3C declares IE9 (latest platform preview version) the most HTML5 compliant browser available at this date! Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5480/internet-explorer-9-is-the-best-html5-browser!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5480 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:54:00 GMT IE9 Pinned Sites; a lot of cruft in your <head> http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5100/ie9-pinned-sites-a-lot-of-cruft-in-your-kleiner-dan-head-groter-dan.html While Microsoft is generally going into the right direction with version 9 of Internet Explorer when it comes to standards compliance they couldn't resist to built-in some new proprietary features. One of those is the so-called 'Pinned Sites' feature which makes it possible to 'pin' websites to the taskbar in Windows 7 making them part of the desktop as if they were applications. Even though this is actually a nice feature if you happen to use Windows 7, the actual implementation does have some flaws. Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5100/ie9-pinned-sites-a-lot-of-cruft-in-your-kleiner-dan-head-groter-dan.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5100 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:14:00 GMT Heads or Tails? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4198/heads-or-tails.html Clientside Performance Guru Steve Souders recently created a test to see if browsers implicitly create a <head>-element for all HTML documents. I pointed out in the comments that there might be more in play than just the fact that some browsers don't follow the specifications (notably mobile browsers) to the letter with regards to DOM-tree building. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4198/heads-or-tails.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4198 Sun, 16 May 2010 23:49:00 GMT The real reason Apple and Microsoft are embracing 'HTML5' http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090/the-real-reason-apple-and-microsoft-are-embracing-html5.html Just the other day Microsoft has chimed in with Apple in its fight against Adobe's Flash calling it 'proprietary' and 'not-open' and pushing forward 'HTML5' as the technology of the future. Both posts seem to focus on video on the web and it is striking that they both mention H.264 as the codec of choice, a codec that is neither free nor open and has little to do with HTML5 itself. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090/the-real-reason-apple-and-microsoft-are-embracing-html5.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090 Sun, 02 May 2010 23:43:00 GMT The MS browser ballot page analyzed http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3751/the-ms-browser-ballot-page-analyzed.html There's been a lot of talk about the new Microsoft browser ballot screen lately. I for one would like to say that I think this solution is a very good thing. I really commend Microsoft for having come up with this solution. It seems that this solution however is not very well understood by some people who just think it is annoying and 'blame' the European Commission for 'butting in' on the free market. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3751/the-ms-browser-ballot-page-analyzed.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3751 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:49:00 GMT Die IE6, die! http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3535/die-ie6-die!.html The Dutch nowadays are a conservative kind of people; they don't like to stick out their necks when it comes to radical changes. They much rather prefer to keep everything as it was. But when a greater power tells them to jump, the Dutch will gladly ask "how high?" Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3535/die-ie6-die!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3535 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:03:00 GMT Having fun with IE part 5 - what item? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3098/having-fun-with-ie-part-5-what-item.html Some more IE-weirdness. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3098/having-fun-with-ie-part-5-what-item.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3098 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:13:00 GMT Having fun with IE - part 4: invalid argument http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2556/having-fun-with-ie-part-4-invalid-argument.html I thought I'd revive this series again after finding yet another one of those incomprehensible 'features' of IE, version 8 this time Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2556/having-fun-with-ie-part-4-invalid-argument.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2556 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:06:37 GMT IE6: exit http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1546/ie6-exit.html Finally the day has come; Tweakers.net has decided to stop active support for Internet Explorer version 6 (Dutch)! Only yesterday Microsoft released version 8 of it's browser, but that also moved our support for Internet Explorer up with one notch. Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1546/ie6-exit.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1546 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:25:00 GMT IE8 standards compliant by default - but not for Tweakers.net http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1411/ie8-standards-compliant-by-default-but-not-for-tweakers-punt-net.html I blogged about this before and I'm doing it again. Reason for this post is the recent 'recap' by Microsoft on the compatibility view feature which just further illustrates how Microsoft is secretly turning the standards compliance treatment of IE8 back into an opt-in for many sites. Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1411/ie8-standards-compliant-by-default-but-not-for-tweakers-punt-net.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1411 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:01:16 GMT IE8's standards compatibility promise http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1248/ie8s-standards-compatibility-promise.html Some time ago Microsoft made a 180 turn on their decision to make IE7 rendering mode the default for IE8. This seemed to be a commitment to standards compliance which gained them renewed trust from a lot of parties. But now that IE8's appearance is near, how do they keep up to that promise? Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1248/ie8s-standards-compatibility-promise.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1248 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:45:00 GMT Tweakers.net en Internet Explorer 8 compatibility http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1221/tweakers-punt-net-en-internet-explorer-8-compatibility.html Vandaag werden we verrast door een mailtje van Microsoft. Je weet wel, dat bedrijf dat tegenwoordig zo begaan is met webstandaarden. IE8 is naar hun zeggen zelfs volledig standards compliant(!). Ze nemen zelfs de moeite om websites te testen in IE8 en de site-eigenaren op de hoogte te stellen van het resultaat van hun test. Het resultaat zal geen verassing zijn... Lees verder »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1221/tweakers-punt-net-en-internet-explorer-8-compatibility.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1221 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:51:00 GMT X-UA-InCompatible http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/802/x-ua-incompatible.html And Microsoft does it again by making their proprietary X-UA-Compatible tag completely incompatible with current browser behaviour... Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/802/x-ua-incompatible.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/802 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:13:53 GMT IE6 fucking up BASE (again)? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/760/ie6-fucking-up-base-(again).html Beginning of this week we noticed a rather dramatic increase of the popularity of our forum, or at least so it seemed. Pageview counts were up from an average of 800.000 a day to over a million spiking at 1.5 million last Monday. Surely this couldn't be right... Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/760/ie6-fucking-up-base-(again).html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/760 Fri, 30 May 2008 22:30:00 GMT IE8: Operation (now silently) Aborted http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/678/ie8-operation-(now-silently)-aborted.html The MSIE team proudly blogged about the 'fix' they made in IE8 for the dreaded "operation aborted" error that has plagued and confused many front-end developers (and end-users) the past decade or so. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/678/ie8-operation-(now-silently)-aborted.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/678 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:06:00 GMT The versioning switch's default is incorrect http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/509/the-versioning-switchs-default-is-incorrect.html In fact, the whole versioning switch idea is bad to begin with. If you still don't understand why after my previous blog-entries and after having read for instance Jeremy Keith's reasoning on AListApart (and failed to see the flaws in Jeffrey Zeldman's entry) here's a break-down of the arguments against the versioning switch and against the proposed default (== IE7 mode): Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/509/the-versioning-switchs-default-is-incorrect.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/509 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:53:34 GMT Using the HTML5 doctype prematurely "considered harmful" http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/434/using-the-html5-doctype-prematurely-considered-harmful.html There has been a lot of fuss around Microsoft's ludicrous idea of freezing IE into IE7's quirksmode rendering for the (un)foreseeable future unless you specify some proprietary meta-tag in all your documents. There was however a tiny shimmer of good faith in this huge anti-competitive move when Chris Wilson, MSIE's productmanager, offered that this lock-in might not affect documents using some new doctype or mimetype that is currently unsupported by IE. By the way, the "considered harmful" in the title is intentional even though it has been abused as a populistic phrase throughout the years: it seems fitting since no one less than Eric Meyer once wrote an essay on the subject of why "considered harmful" can be considered harmful by itself Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/434/using-the-html5-doctype-prematurely-considered-harmful.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/434 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:13:38 GMT IE's "opt-in" nightmare comes true http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/414/ies-opt-in-nightmare-comes-true.html Well, obviously MS did not heed my last year's warning and went ahead with this ridiculous idea of having webdevelopers opt-in to "really really" standards-compliant mode (something you already get for free, as in beer, in all other browsers) from IE8 onwards. Or should I say: first opt-in to IE8's rendermode, then some years later change it and opt-in to IE9's rendermode and so on? Unless ofcourse you want to go "edgy", but then ofcourse MS doesn't guarantee that when something works correctly (as in: according to existing standards, not MS' version of those) in IE8 they won't break it again in IE9. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/414/ies-opt-in-nightmare-comes-true.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/414 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:50:23 GMT