People like to use apps and people don't really care with what technology these apps are built. There are good reasons to use so called <i>native</i> technology for an app on a desktop or desknot computer, there are many good reasons why you'd want to use HTML. Mozilla is working on a <i>Web Run-Time</i> which lets you create launcher-apps for web-pages, here's an in depth explanation on how it works.

If you, for whatever reason, don't like any of the other tools and sites out there that tell you what browsers support what CSS feature then this tool might be the one you were looking for. I still prefer <a href="http://caniuse.com/">When Can I Use…</a> though.

One of the only reasons to keep supporting IE6 is when you work for a company that does a lot of business in China, marketshare of IE6 was always very high over there. This graph shows us that <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mikesherov/status/202009160173363200">something significant happened</a> a few weeks ago. On the positive side: IE6 usage has suddenly dropped below 20%. On the negative side: IE8 usage is close to 50% now. A long, long way to go.

What does <i>browser support</i> mean exactly? Some think it means <i>pixel perfection for a <em>predefined</em> set of browsers</i>. According to <b>David Bushell</b> it means something else. A good read for people (or clients) struggling with the ever expanding browser landscape.

Web Developer tools

With any HTML document at least (even in Miscellaneous Files) you can right-click on it, select Browse With..., select the browser, and click on Set as Default. If the browser doesn't appear in the list, click on Add....

The Internet Explorer process on W8ARM has special privileges and is the only one allowed to run a JIT compiler to speed up JavaScript. No other browser will be able to compete on performance with IE on W8ARM. That sure simplifies keeping up with the competition ... ;-)

Webkit and Opera always round down, FireFox and Internet Explorer 8 and 9 round some numbers up, others down, and IE6 & IE7 always round up.

Don't use regex to parse URLs! Tack an HREF into an <a> and you can access most of the useful properties as named objects of the link

Search all Mozilla source-code online full-text online !

The differences between IE9 desktop and IE9 mobile: the official Microsoft statement.