Posts tagged with: opera

It's been a while since I last ran Opera on Solaris and there have been a lot of changes, so I thought I'd take if for a spin. Well, so far so good. The performance is pretty impressive, even when compared to Firefox 3, however it's still early days yet, so I can't say if it'll suit my needs entirely. Anyway, one thing that annoyed me straight away is Opera doesn't acknowledge the Sun Type 5, Type 6 and Type 7 keyboard copy, paste, cut shortcut keys. It doesn't take the settings from the windowing environment and there isn't any ... Continue reading ►

I've been a big Firefox fan for years, and still use it as my primary browser at work and for all my web development, thanks to the great Firebug plugin, but recently it's performance has started to really both me, both at home on the Mac and at work on Solaris. I'm quite limited in what I can use at work as we run everything on Solaris/Nevada, but I've got full control over my home browsing experience. So today I downloaded Opera 9.5 Alpha for the Mac and took it for a spin. Continue reading ►

Did you know that very few browsers implement the :after CSS property for the "img" HTML tag? Nope, neither did I until I wanted to use it. I'm in the process of redesigning my personal site, and one of the things I wanted to do was use CSS to place the Flickr logo after any image I include in a post that is stored on Flick. I do this already with a bit of HTML & CSS, but I need to remember to add the snippet of code everytime I include a Flickr image. By implementing it in CSS, all I would have to do is ensure I use the correct class name and it would appear automatically. Continue reading ►