Lunascape 6 (Orion) is a brand new browser intended to make life much easier for web designers and developers alike.
Any decent web designer is aware of the pains one has to go through to achieve uniform cross-browser rendering of sites. And that involves a long and tedious cycle of writing appropriate CSS and HTML while consistently testing the same on browsers used en masse namely, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
So far one had to rely on bits and pieces software offering disjointed functionality – like MultipleIE (multiple versions on Internet Explorer running simultaneously on the same system), IE & Firefox add-ons like IETab (that toggled the rendering engine between Gecko and Trident) and Chrome Frame (Google Chrome inside IE) or on online services like Browsershots that generates snapshots of a site across a multitude of browsers. What really was missing was a tool that brought all of these under the same roof.
The newly introduced Lunascape version 6 has not only managed to do the same – but also offer side-by-side (split-pane) view of the same page in all 3 engines – Trident (IE), Gecko (FF) and Webkit (Safari). Throw in it’s Tripple Add-On capability & support for 11 languages – and you’ve got one hell of a testing platform.
For those who didn’t know, the guys at Mozilla are reaching out for a new Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in a span of 24 hours – with the support of it’s million plus fan base.
The software which will strive for this record is the all new Firefox 3 (with more than 15,000 improvements), which is being launched on the 17th of…
There are plenty of preview tools sprawled around the vastness of web – Snap Shots, GooglePreview etc. to name a few. Each come with its own set of features and modus operandi. For example, Snap Shots provides small thumbnail previews of a site when you hover your mouse over the link on the site. GooglePreview, which is an extension for Firefox provides automated snap shots…
Here’s a short but sweet one. If you’re daunted by the task of creating OpenSearch plug-ins for your site or any of your favourite sites, fear no more. OpenSearchFox is a cool new Firefox extension that can create such plug-ins for you with a single click.
Is it really that simple?
Absolutely so. All you need to do is install the extension and then browse to the…
Following the tutorial(s) I posted on creating OpenSearch plug-ins for Firefox that can search Invision Power Board based forums & WordPress blogs, I received quite a few requests for help in creating such plug-ins for a wide variety of blogs/CMS/sites.
To make the job easier for all of you, I decided to create a couple of sample plug-ins, which I’ll list here as zip files. The…
In my earlier tutorial titled Creating OpenSearch Plugins for Firefox (adds to the QuickSearch bar) I taught you how to write a basic OpenSearch XML format plug-in that can be used with both Firefox 2.x and IE7. The demonstrated example consisted of creating a plug-in that searches through Invision Power Boards.
As an afterthought, I felt like coming up with another quick tutorial on creating the…
A brief introduction
This tutorial will attempt to explain in a simple manner how to create an OpenSearch plug-in for Firefox. These plug-ins appear in a drop-down menu in the Firefox Quick-Search bar (located right of the URL/Address bar) and help you perform quick searches across various search engines without having to visit the search page first. Pretty neat, eh?
These search plug-ins were in existence (for…
I’ve been a die-hard fan of Firefox since I stumbled upon the browser ages ago – when it hadn’t matured to version 1 yet. I probably started using it around version 0.4 or 0.5. Despite the initial bugs & teething problems, I somehow stuck to it very loyally all these years through – mainly because of the immensely extensible nature of the browser. The ease…
Lunascape 6 (Orion) is a brand new browser intended to make life much easier for web designers and developers alike.
