Web Browser Font Rendering is the New Edge Case
- 2 minutes - Oct 13, 2014
- #internet-explorer#chrome#firefox#safari#google
In the early days of the web, designers and developers relied upon visitors to the sites they were developing to have their chosen font pre-installed on their computers so that their web browser of choice would be able to properly render the selected font. As quickly became obvious, there is a wide variety of fonts installed across all computers worldwide, so this was not an achievable scenario, especially when print level typography was desired.
Read MoreLocalStorage and Safari Weirdness
- 2 minutes - Oct 7, 2014
- #javascript#html#safari#apple
One of the technologies that has been intriguing to me for a while has been LocalStorage on the web browser. One of my first adventures into using persistent storage other than cookies on a web browser was the short-lived HTML 5 standard of the webSQL database. It turns out that it was simply a SQL Lite database that was accessible via JavaScript in all the WebKit browsers as well as Firefox.
Read MoreLinks Not Working? Check AdBlock Plus
- 2 minutes - Jul 28, 2014
- #rant#sitecatalyst#safari#adblock-plus
It turns out that the issues with useForcedLinkTracking are not isolated just to Safari’s popup blocker. Unfortunately, one of the most popular browser for both Chrome and Firefox, AdBlock Plus is subject to this issue as well. One of the things that the AdBlock Plus plugin does is attempt to intercept any and all link traffic to determine whether it was created from an actual mouse click or if it was triggered through JavaScript as part of a marketing campaign.
Read MoreAvoid SiteCatalyst's useForcedLinkTracking and target="_blank"
- 2 minutes - May 23, 2014
- #javascript#rant#sitecatalyst#safari
All sites rely upon some third party analytics software to track at the very least the number of visitors to a site. Many sites use Google Analytics, which provide much more information that just the number of visitors. Another option that some of the bigger sites use is Adobe Analytics, aka SiteCatalyst to enable more custom tracking options that are not evident through the Google Analytics interface. One feature of SiteCatalyst is that it allows you to set an option useForcedLinkTracking that will track every link on your site for clicks whether or not you have setup custom tracking for the links or not.
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