Note: this is an OSX tutorial.
About every application with customers needs to send customers email. Some are newsletters, others are invoices, sometimes the application needs to send an alert. One thing is certain though - testing is a pain. I'm talking cross-client testing. Sure, it's easy to look at a webpage in IE7-8, Firefox, and Chrome - but it isn't as much of a no-brainer when it comes to looking at html emails in Yahoo, Aol, and Gmail. This post should help you do that.
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As anyone who has ever developed an interactive web app will know, Firebug ( Firefox) and Inspector ( Webkit) are your best friends. In fact, in many cases these tools are the "IDEs of choice" for manipulating the DOM, debugging JavaScript, and even working with CSS. However, have you ever wondered how many CPU cycles that script really took, or how much time the browser spent in reflow, as compared to just parsing the data? That's where Google's …
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Firefox 3.6.4 - 180 milliseconds.
Chrome 5.0 - 200 milliseconds.
iPad - 2500 milliseconds.
IE ? - Blech. Don't ask. Minutes. It likely has something to do with the GWT implementation.
For a long time if you suggested using web technologies for complex graphical operations, you would have been laughed out of the room. When the tools and libraries catch up to Flex/Flash, however, these days nobody will be chuckling at HTML5.
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When developing Firefox extensions that add buttons to the Firefox toolbar, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Firefox would provide a default button image for you to build upon, allowing you to layer your button's icon over the top.
More fool you - you'll be making the whole thing yourself. This seemed a little bit "ghetto" to me (I'm still hoping that somebody will point out the glaringly obvious page on developer.mozilla.org where copious icon resources …
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…they just add or remove the disabled attribute from whatever they're called on. But it seems Firefox doesn't support disabled on anchor tags, like IE8 does, so we couldn't stop the repeat-calls that way.
We got to thinking, what if the link always called its javascript function, but the function could turn itself off after the first call, and back on after a successful ajax post? That led to this: function makeGated(fn) { var open = true; var gate = { open: …
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…SunSpider JavaScript benchmark for a number of IE9 iterations (and a Firefox thrown in for good measure):
And here's a "wider" version of that chart, showing more of the Esteemed Competition's browsers:
This puts IE9's JavaScript performance within 50 milliseconds of the fastest browsers - that's the time it takes sound to travel less than a couple dozen paces.
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…had a chance to test it on any browsers other than Safari 5, Chrome 5 and Firefox 3.6, so if that could be a problem for your audience test it before you deploy. Bug reports with screenshots will be acted on sharpish!
Updating your site with the new look
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- Displays & functions correctly in Firefox ( Mac & PC)?
- Displays & functions correctly in Chrome ( Mac & PC)?
- Displays & functions correctly in Safari ( Mac & PC)?
- Displays & functions correctly in Opera ( Mac & PC)?
- Tested at 1024 x 768 resolution?
- Tested at larger resolutions?
- Forms have been tested and processed correctly?
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…the folks working on the new JavaScript standards can put in a line-item about initializing Arrays with all the right numbered slots, and that'll be unnecessary.
While writing this post, I used the JavaScript Shell 1.4 in FireFox 3.6.3 on Windows 7. I also redefined Array.prototype.toString to display JavaScript arrays the way you type them .
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RT: OH: " Firefox is the new IE." # railsconf (via @ glv)
Ouch. But kinda true.
The Cold/Hot/Cold/Hot/Cold/Hot/Cold/Hot of this week has made me weak. Picked up some knockoff airborne at the CVS # railsconf
Getting sicker... Must consume more vitamins and wear more clothes. Covering up crazy shirt now. :( # railsconf
Must. Fight. Sickness. At. The. Airport. At that point the sickness overtook me so I found a quiet place and laid down. So I missed the last …
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