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Form elements and browser windows for Mac Firefox 3 and Vista IE7, all set in a layered Photoshop file

Because I like pain and suffering, I recreate browser UI and form elements for my mock-ups from various sources for almost every other project. (Protip: This is how inertia and laziness manifests in more work later on.)

Today, I decided to get my act together and downloaded the Browser Form Elements PSD from Teehan+Lax, the same guys who made the wildly popular iPhone GUI PSD file.

If you need more UI elements from a slightly wider range of browsers, try the Designers Toolbox’s Web Browser Elements. Also recommended, but somewhat unrelated, is the excellent Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit.

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  • browser, forms, graphics, mockup, photoshop, ui

 

The screaming jets from the RSAF fly past Marina Bay Sands during the National Day parade (Photo by fiftymm99 on flickr)

For the past two weeks (and for another week to come), I’ve been in a uniform serving out my annual obligations to the homeland. In exchange for being away from my computer for a while, I got to be very near all the National Day action.

My eyes are still burning from all the sun and my feet are still aching from too much standing and walking. Worst of all, the only connectivity I’ve had lately has been from the tiny browser on my phone and using a browser on a real computer now is giving me spatial disorientation. No, seriously… I think I need to get my eyes checked after using a 320 × 480 pixel browser for a prolonged period of time.

OK, I think I need to go lie down again.

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  • browser, full screen, national day, singapore

 

What a load of utter bullshit

Actually, HTML5 works just fine with Firefox, Chrome and Opera. It’s just that Apple’s demo page has some Webkit-specific features enabled. So much for Steve Jobs rejecting Flash because it was not an open standard.

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  • apple, browser, html5

 

Brilliantly executed

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  • browser, css, genius, html, idea, ie6, photo

 

Awesomely brutal and wickedly judgemental 'splash' pages for those who are discovered to be using Internet Explorer 6

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  • browser, firefox, ie6, internet explorer, outdated, safari

 

Type this into the address bar of your freshly installed beta version of Google Chrome.

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‘Whoa’, but hey, it is beta software.

[Via atc]

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  • breakpoint, browser, bug, crash, google

 

Looks like the browser wars are upon us again. With the introduction of Google’s Chrome browser to the party, I cannot wait to see how the loyalty of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera users will be tested (and I include myself in there). The IHT has a good write-up on how Google doesn’t actually have to win this browser war to cause Microsoft to wobble.

A weird comic book by Google explaining Google Chrome

And yeah, I am convinced Chrome is going to be the killer app for Android. In fact, since it’s WebKit powered, it could be ported to the iPhone someday, somehow.

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  • android, browser, chrome, explorer, firefox, gecko, war, webkit

 

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