Regular readers of my blog know how much I love Zopfli, Google’s compression engine that often shrinks output by 5% or better when compared to the popular zlib engine. The beauty of Zopfli is that its output is compatible with all of the billions of existing DEFLATE encoders deployed worldwide, making its use an easyContinue reading “Brotli”
Category Archives: browsers
On Defaults
Yesterday, Chris Beard, the CEO of Mozilla, wrote an open letter to Microsoft complaining about Windows 10’s behavior related to default applications. Reactions were all over the board, but in my Twitter feed, at least, they mostly skewed against Mozilla. With the perspective of having been both inside and outside Microsoft, I feel compelled toContinue reading “On Defaults”
Microsoft Edge Bugs and Omissions
I tweet about the new Microsoft Edge browser quite a lot. I wanted to have a blog post to collect some of the feedback I’ve provided so I have it in one place and can update as needed. Note: This post mostly focuses on the bad parts of Edge; there are plenty of good parts,Continue reading “Microsoft Edge Bugs and Omissions”
Google Search Provider in Microsoft Edge
Back in the IE7 days, I built a simple Search Provider Builder that allowed IE users (and later users of other browsers) to add custom search engines to their browser without any changes to the site. Trivia: This hour-long little prototype soon led to a formal effort to put this tool on the IEAddons site;Continue reading “Google Search Provider in Microsoft Edge”
