What heuristics do browsers use to cache resources not explicitly set to be cachable?

Let’s assume all browsers we are interested in are Internet Explorer 8 or newer (e.g. IE5 has some terrible behaviour with caching headers). There is only ONE standards based way of controlling caching (introduced with HTTP/1.1) – the Cache-Control HTTP header. Since at least 1996 IE has been using an opt-out policy for caching HTTPS … Read more

Webkit text flickers when using CSS transform (scale)

I’m facing the same problem: I want to scale an element on hover, and when doing so every text on the page flickers. I’m also on latest Chrome (21.0.1180.89) and OSX Mountain Lion. Actually, adding -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -moz-backface-visibility: hidden; -ms-backface-visibility: hidden; to the affected elements does solve the problem. You said you can’t change the … Read more

Distinguish Chrome from Safari using jQuery.browser

Since Sarfraz has not corrected his answer (thank you Sarfraz for pointing me in the correct direction), I will post functioning code here. var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); $.browser.chrome = /chrome/.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()); // Is this a version of Chrome? if($.browser.chrome){ userAgent = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf(‘chrome/’) +7); userAgent = userAgent.substring(0,userAgent.indexOf(‘.’)); $.browser.version = userAgent; // If it is chrome then jQuery … Read more

What is the difference between testing on Safari vs Webkit?

Stock browsers like Google Chrome, Apple Safari embed rendering engines (Chromium, WebKit) and add stuff on top of them. In particular, they add proprietary media codecs, inject browser extensions, etc. They also add surrounding interfaces such as bookmarks sync. But they reuse the underlying web platform implementation. Chromium Chromium is the open source web platform … Read more

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