Wingdings font family does not seem to work on Firefox and Opera

Mozilla and Opera are standard-compiliant. Wingdings is not standard (what a surprise coming from Microsoft) because not mapped to Unicode, and so should never be used on a website. However, do not despair, most symbols are available in Unicode : check http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html Important addendum (october 2014) : As of Unicode v7, released on June 16, … Read more

What happens to a Web Worker if I close the page that created this Web Worker?

Short answer: This behavior is implementation-defined, and the specification allows behavior to vary from browser to browser (or vary situationally within one browser), except for some guarantees about event queues. Long answer: Closing or navigating away from a page causes the browser to discard the page’s document: User agents may discard top-level browsing contexts at … Read more

Available Keyboard Shortcuts for Web Applications

If you need to know only standard browser keyboard shortcuts, they are listed here. Separate browser’s shortcuts lists: Internet Explorer’s shortcuts can be found here. Firefox’s here. (scroll down a bit) Google Chrome’s here. Safari’s official source here, but a better one is here. Opera’s here. And I find this comparison table ugly, but very … Read more

Is it possible to see the data of a post request in Firefox or Chrome?

You could just use the Chrome Developer Tools, if you only need to track requests. Activate them with Ctrl+Shift+I and select the Network tab. This works also when Chrome talks HTTPS with another server (and unless you have the HTTPS private key you cannot use Wireshark to sniff that traffic). (I copied this answer from … Read more

Animated gif only loops once in Chrome and Firefox

I was facing the same problem with my GIF encoder/decoder class I wrote some time ago (and improving from time to time). I found out the solution for this just yesterday. The GIF is completely fine the problem is on a modern internet browser’s side. Affected browsers are Opera, IE, and Chrome (didn’t test others). … Read more

Image mysteriously ignoring max-width in Firefox & IE

You have max-width: 100%, but 100% of what? Of the parent width, right? But the parent is an inline-block (with class=”sponsor”) whose width is not set, so its width depends on the children, and in particular on the preferred width of the children. The layout of this styling is undefined in the CSS specification. In … Read more

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