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• Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta

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  Matt Oakes

  Date

  Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 22:20

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  Blog Entry

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  Apple have suddenly released a beta version of Safari 4, their web browser, which they seem to be marketing as the latest version that people should use, so it must be fairly stable at the minute. The new features are both cosmetic and under-the-hood. The rendering engine now uses a much newer version of Webkit, which supports things like HTML 5 with offline storage and passes the Acid3 test. Safari 4 also features the Nitro Engine, a much faster JavaScript engine, which should help to keep pass with Mozilla Firefox 3.1's enhanced JavaScri…

• Do We Really Need Proprietary CSS Properties?

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 20:55

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  Blog Entry

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  Recently, I was working on a project that utilised Webkit's CSS transforms to create a cool effect as a little extra to anyone viewing the page in Safari. Firefox 3.1 will also introduce CSS transforms to Firefox. However, Webkit uses the -webkit-transform property and Firefox uses the -moz-transform property. The question I ask is: what is wrong with just transform? Do we really need proprietary CSS properties? Isn't that entirely counterintuitive to web standards? Basically, the answer boils down to that, yes, proprietary CSS properti…