Blogs

This site contains two blogs. On this page you get a quick overview of them and their latest entries.

QuirksBlog

The QuirksBlog is my professional blog in which I write about web development and related topics, and occasionally about my personal life. I'm not really interested in keeping a personal blog, though, so the majority of the entries are about solidly techy stuff.

Fronteers 2009 - Douglas Crockford and Molly Holzschlag

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As I announced earlier the Fronteers 2009 conference will be held in Amsterdam on the 5th and 6th of November. Today we announce two speakers, and we also have extended the early bird period by one week (ends 10th of July instead of 3rd). The conference will be held entirely in English.

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State of the Browsers — IE edition

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Recently I held a presentation at a local Microsoft conference in the Netherlands. Slides are here. Fanatical followers will recognise most of the topics I discussed from earlier slide shows, but the last one, about the changes to the market share of IE6, 7, and 8, is new.

Basically, IE6 will continue to exist when IE7 has all but disappeared, and, contrary to what you might expect, this situation will create exciting opportunities for Microsoft’s competitors.

Besides, last week the news came that Microsoft is going to voluntarily de-bundle IE from all Windows 7 machines that will be sold in Europe, and I continue to have my doubts about that affair.

So it’s time for a special State of the Browsers IE edition.

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HTML5 Storage tests

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I have started an HTML5 compatibility table today. For now it only contains a test of HTML5 Storage in all desktop browsers, and a short report is in order. I also retested the DOM HTML; no changes.

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See the QuirksBlog homepage for older entries.

Elsewhere on the 'Net

The Elsewhere on the 'Net blog contains many links to other interesting web development sites, articles, and resources.

29 June 2009

HTML5 Doctor

18 June 2009

JavaScript tests & Compatibility tables

15 June 2009

JavaScript Frameworks within Mobile Widgets - Part 2

13 June 2009

Europe to get Windows 7 sans browser

8 June 2009

Getting started with widgets on Windows Mobile 6.5

2 June 2009

EU Plans Fresh Strike on Microsoft

23 May 2009

Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)

22 May 2009

ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

21 May 2009

jQuery vs MooTools

Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS

20 May 2009

Web-Based BlackBerry Widgets En Route

19 May 2009

Someone at Apple, please review stance on PhoneGap

14 May 2009

Sharding Dominant Domains

Feature testing CSS properties

Creating widgets for T-Mobile handsets

See the Elsewhere homepage for older entries.