Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

CSS Border Radius Percentages and Elliptical Borders

When using CSS border radius I’ve always specified the radius in pixels (px), something like this:

.round-box {
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
}

This got me to wondering, does it support percentages as well? So I tried this:

.round-box {
border-radius: 5%;
[...]

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Browser Stats and Five Years of Firefox

There’s been a lot of talk about Firefox turning 5 years old today. Seems like a good time to take a look at web browser market share. One place for this data is the Global Stats page for StatCounter.com.
Top 5 Browers
Internet Explorer has 57.15%, Firefox 32.03% and then a virtual three way tie [...]

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XMLHttpRequest (XHR) Uses Multiple Packets for HTTP POST?

A recent Think Vitamin article, The Definitive Guide to GET vs POST, mentioned something that I hadn’t seen before about XMLHttpRequest (XHR). Their Rule #4 states:

When using XMLHttpRequest, browsers implement POST as a two-step process (sending the headers first and then the data). This means that GET requests are more responsive – something you [...]

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