Iranian cyber-terrorism, online security, and you!

by Ryan Parman • September 9, 2011 • Browsers, Technology • No comments

If updating your web browser is something that you typically put off, now is the time to break that habit. A recently-discovered attack by an Iranian hacker has thwarted the industry-standard approach to online security, causing browser makers and security firms to scramble to restore balance. What is a web browser? Not sure what a [...]

WebKit 3D CSS Transforms

by Ryan Parman • July 14, 2009 • Apple, Browsers, Software • 1 comments

I came across the following demos of the new 3D CSS Transform functionality in the latest WebKit builds. These will be making their way into Safari, Google Chrome, iPhone, and Android sometime soon. Snow Stacks (Can’t see the video? Watch it directly.) Image Fly (Can’t see the video? Watch it directly.)

Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X

by Ryan Parman • January 7, 2009 • Browsers, Software, Tutorials • 24 comments

By now, most front-end web developers have heard of the Standalone Internet Explorers (Wikipedia article). Although these are incredibly useful, they’ve always been hacky at best.

Because of that, we need to go the long way. We’ll download the “officially sanctioned” VirtualPC images containing a time-limited version of Windows XP SP3 and Internet Explorer 6.0, and then we’ll convert these images to the kind that work with VMware Fusion (which works on Mac OS X). This should only need to be done every 3 or 4 months when the images expire.

Google Toolbar Awesomeness!

by Ryan Parman • June 20, 2006 • Browsers, Software • 1 comments

My wife works for a bank, and she forwarded me a phishing scam for Washington Mutual bank. Besides misspelling the word “customer” as “costomer”, it was pretty convincing for those who don’t know any better. When she sent it to me, I took a look at the page, and this is what Firefox+Google toolbar presented [...]

CSS’s text-shadow property in Firefox 2?

by Ryan Parman • April 18, 2006 • Browsers, Code • No comments

After nearly 7 years in Bugzilla, it appears that the CSS2 text-shadow property will finally make it into Firefox 2. According to Bugzilla, the patch has already been added to the trunk (although it’s not quite complete yet), and seeing as how its status has been set to blocking 1.8.1 (which according to this roadmap [...]

Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 (Build 5335.5)

by Ryan Parman • March 22, 2006 • Browsers, Creating Websites, Software, Technology • No comments

For those who hadn’t yet heard, there is an updated version of Internet Explorer 7 available. If you want to run it in standalone mode, Jon Galloway’s IE7 Launcher will do the trick nicely. Lots of information can be found about IE7, specifically improved CSS compliance (hasn’t yet been updated with the current build information, [...]

Camino has left the building

by Ryan Parman • February 20, 2006 • Apple, Browsers • 3 comments

I’m a creature of habit. I haven’t lost my keys in years, simply because I always put them in the same place when I get home. I never have to fumble around in my pockets to find something, because I already know what’s there: wallet and phone in my right pocket; keys, chapstick, pen, and [...]

Awesome view-source trick for JavaScript developers

by Ryan Parman • February 14, 2006 • Browsers, Code • 4 comments

Maybe I’m a little slow, but I’ve found an awesome little trick for people who use Firefox, and who need to dynamically add elements to the page via JavaScript. I’ve been doing a lot of Ajax development lately for an internal webapp where I need to dynamically add nodes to lists. In my source code, [...]