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Video transcoding: Web and native playback overview (April 2020)
Intro
Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a <video> tag to your source code and it just works. Most of the time.
The thing is: Both the **operating system and Browser of your client must support the container ...
Using Firebug Lite to inspect HTML in Internet Explorer and other browsers
You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.
Though all major browsers offer inspection tools you may like the Firebug style. Also, for me this is a lot better than the IE8 develop...
Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough on how to get a browser testing suite for free on OSX or Ubuntu.
How to use CSS to rotate text by 90° in IE8 (and modern IEs)
If you want to rotate text, you can use CSS transforms in somewhat modern browsers to rotate the container element.
However, if you need to support IE8, transform is unavailable (if need only IE9 support, ignore the following and use `-ms-transf...
About PIE – CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
CSS Level 3 brings with it some incredibly powerful styling features. Rounded corners, soft drop shadows, gradient fills, and so on. These are the kinds of elements our designer friends love to use because they make for attractive sites, but are d...
CSS: Opacity is not inherited in Internet Explorer
Non-static elements will not inherit their parent's opacity in IE for no good reason. This can lead to unexpected behaviour when you want to fade/hide an element and all its children.
To fix it, give the parent element defining the opacity a non-...
Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with WebKit
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this short sprint we targeted mobile WebKit browsers—especially the default browsers on iOS and Android—because of their widespread use and ex...
Matching elements on complex web pages with Webrat
XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of an element should be matched but the element itself like in the following example. Here a form is used to display data as default ...