How we went from testing sporadically to testing on a regular basis, what we discovered, and how you can do it, too.…
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UX & Design
Kitt and the Battle of the iPhone Extension Ecosystems
We recently launched the private beta of Kitt, an iPhone browser developed by Salsita with support for Chrome browser extensions. You can find out more about Kitt in the screencast below: Around the time we were finalizing this screencast, Apple announced that they would be adding support for extensions to…
Adding a Toolbar Button in a Bootstrapped Firefox Extension
Adding a toolbar button in a Firefox extension is simple. Since the Firefox user interface is described using XUL, it is enough to inject a snippet of XUL into the "toolbar palette" in browser.xul. Traditionally this would be done with a XUL overlay. Experienced XUL developers know…
Igor Tandetnik's Passthrough APP... Now on Github!
One of the many frustrations things about developing extensions for Internet Explorer is that certain seemingly essential capabilities are completely lacking. For example, you can see the headers being send with an HTTP request using the BeforeNavigate2 event. But you can't modify the headers. What's more, this event is only…
Should Apple Discontinue Safari or Double Down?
The recent news that Chrome has passed 20% browser market share (according to StatCounter) was impressive for a browser that hit the market just 30 months ago. One subtle point that was hardly mentioned in the tech press is that, as the same narrative was trotted out time and time…
Will the Web Browser Replace the Operating System Desktop?
Like most of geekdom, I sat transfixed in front of my computer yesterday, first following Engadget's live blog of Apple's WWDC keynote and then watching the video of the event. A large part of Apple's mind-bending success over the past few years can be attributed to the effort they have…