Hisham Sadek » Firefox

CSS3 in IE 6, 7 and 8 !!

Hisham Sadek — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:20:58 +0000

It WORKS ! I couldn’t believe what I’ve seen while I tried this script . Now You can use CSS3 and you can make it working in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 . Yes ! It actually Worked . IE-CSS3 is a script to provide support for CSS3 Styles to work on Internet Explorer All Versions from 6 to the latest version IE8 .

You Can Try a Demo I’ve worked on it .

All you have to do is writing your normal css3 code & adding another simple line of code for inserting the script like the following:

.box{
	-moz-border-radius: 10px; /* Firefox */
	-webkit-border-radius: 10px; /* Chrome & Safari */
	border-radius: 10px; /* Opera 10.50 & IE9 , Also Works for IE-CSS3 the Script */
	behavior: url(ie-css3.htc);
}

Download The Script & Get More Info About How to use it : CSS3 Support in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

Thanks to Ahmed Abdul Mon’em for his quick note about the script in his Blog (Arabic) .

Chromium 4 .. Fastest Browser ?

Hisham Sadek — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Image via CNET UK Article on Chromium 4

Chromium 4 was released recently and It’s really going in the right way to get more users .. Chromium 4 which was released for Windows, OS X and Linux may not show lots of differences in what you see but shows a great difference when you use it . You can open like 25 or 30 tabs and You won’t feel the slow like how you do it with Firefox .

It’s really going fast too with its new version of Google’s V8 Javascript Engine and you can feel a bit difference between effects in Chrome 3 and 4 . And with Themes You can have a customized beautiful browser thanks to Skins Google offered for users since version 3 .

And also It has a better support for Flash especially for OS X which didn’t have Flash Support before .. Still didn’t have a try with Chromium 4 on Linux but hope they had supported flash on Linux too . It could be an alpha version but it shows great reasons to use .. Using 3 is the best option for now as there is no automatic updater with Chromium 4 .. Still expecting more from Chromium

You can download PC Version from Here

Firefox 3.5 – A Step Forward

Hisham Sadek — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:55:00 +0000

This Post Was published Via Firefox 3.5

Today should be the day to announce the Final Release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5. Unlike other browsers, Firefox has a great reputation since It was the browser who could compete with The Most Used Browser “IE” . Firefox is still gaining more in Browser’s Market Share, And with the New Release of Firefox, It will keep going forward to gain more users .. Users who wanna be Foxy !

What This release come up with for Users ?

Speed : 3.5 is really faster than Firefox 3. Updated Javascript Engine “TraceMonkey” is faster by 20-40 times than Firefox 3 Javascript engine “SpiderMonkey”. Simply, It’s just Faster than before =) . It’s not fast as Google Chrome or Safari 4 but better than Firefox 3 .

Tabs : Grab & Drag is a previous Feature with Google Chrome & Safari . Now Firefox has it too . It’s kinda nice tool to grab a tab out of Main window or Dragging it inside again . The New Tab button is another new feature in the tab bar .. Just a single click and you open a tab instead of double click in a free space .

Private Browsing : Safari & Google Chrome were the first to show it to the market, Some of guys would call it “Porn Mode” as It hides what you open & What you want to hide but Porn Websites ! It’s a cool feature if you are using a public computer so others will not track what you were surfing .

Geo-Location : A Feature that is not Internationally supported which is powered by powered by Google’s Wi-Fi triangulation . It checks where you are and help you finding something local in your area .

Video Superpowers with HTML5 : This video By TechCrunch will show what it means (Fantastic!)

As to Web Developers, Welcome Firefox 3.5 . It’s now supporting more CSS3 Media queries such as text-shadow, @font-face, word-wrap, -moz-box-shadow . Now You can use CSS 3 Features and Don’t worry about Appearance =) (Just IE users, You won’t be able to see those effects) . Beside New DOM & Javasceipt Features, You will have faster & Better Web Applications .

Firefox 3.5 Final is already released on some websites like FileHippo.com but I’ll prefer to wait for the Final Announcement By Mozilla =)

As Business : Let’s Make it better without IE6

Hisham Sadek — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:54:00 +0000

I think that most of firms and companies are all depending on Internet in their work especially those who are tech-related like Web Design Companies which I will talk a lot about .

We can not deny that There’s still LOTS of users who depend on IE6 to browse Websites as It’s the Default Browser With Windows XP which still own the big part in the market – after Vista FAIL- , and however Firefox is getting more users every month according to reports, we still suffer from Uncompitable IE6 . And unfortunately, Many Web Designers still try to make their works compitable with IE6 Thanks to conditional tags for CSS and Javascript and all those fixes for PNG which takes too much effort to make it working fine .

As an example of breaking the rules, I started to not care about IE6 anymore in my work . Each website I design I just view it in the lovely Firefox and IE7 and fixing the little issues with IE7.

In a poll we created on our new website at Pure Design Co. (Arabic) We asked the most common question if they like the new design or not . It was good to know that about 85% of visitors loved the new design, and the rest 15% didn’t like it or actually liked the old design more although most of them didn’t view it !

The only reason for choosing this was that It’s not compitable with IE6 and Thanks to WordPress & Plugins I put the lovely Yellow Message at the top of website while viewing it with IE6 to Upgrade or Switching .

As a progress we made, We found through Google Analytics that IE6 users became fewer day after day and Other Browsers are Increased .

So Why Don’t others follow such step and start giving up that Old ugly Browser and Advice their clients to upgrade or switch from . We should have a rule about that as Microsoft is not planning for a Force-Upgrade or Stopping its Support .

Let’s make the Internet Better Without IE6, Mac & Linux users : You’re Lucky