Javascript Get Browser

Getting the browser that you are using using Javascript can be important in some cases. Like when reading or setting an element’s property, browsers like IE and Firefox both have different ways to do them. Take for example creating a hyperlink using Javascript. To create the text of the hyperlink, IE uses its proprietary innerText property while Firefox uses textContent (although the specific browser will just ignore the property that it cannot recognize, I feel it’s nice to use browser detection to fully ignore the property even if no error will be thrown). Using the function below can be pretty useful in doing conditional statements on which property to apply to an element. The function is custom made, you can modify it if you wish since my only concern was… Continue reading

Google Chrome Out

Oh man! As if 2 browsers waging against each other isn’t enough, we have another one on board the browser wars. Google Chrome is finally out, Google’s very own internet browser. What’s nice about this browser is it maximizes your whole screen and does away with those useless icons and stuffs. What I really need visible in a browser is the menu bar, the address bar and the status bar. The browser does look weird with its UI interface because you don’t see a menu bar here. The menu items that you see in the other browsers are all clamped down in the 2 icons on the upper right side of the browser, just beside the… Continue reading

Google set to introduce its own Web browser

Wow I didn’t see this one coming. From the Reuturs website, “Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich applications, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics”. It’s going to be called Google Chrome and Google had officially confirmed this. One of its new features is a Javascript Virtual Machine called v8 which was created for the purpose of speeding up Javascript code. Considering that lots of websites (and especially Google) are heavily using AJAX (they are a great help by the way), this would be put to good use.

This new browser’s address bar comes with auto-completion features known as “omnibox”. It was said that… Continue reading

Firefox 3 Download Day 2008

I saw some posts in the blog regarding Firefox download day, us helping the browser set a Guinness World

Record for most downloads within a 24 hour span. I’m wondering why they need that gimmick.

Firefox is already way better than IE. I used to be a huge fan of IE but when version 7 surfaced, I was terribly

discouraged with it and have been using Firefox since. I will of course download this, but not as much as anticipating it like there’s going to be some sale going to happen. I am expecting that they will have solved that memory usage issue when using Firefox. It was understandable when version 3 beta was released since it was… Continue reading