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Internet Explorer 8: Progress!

3/6/2008 – 10:35 am

It seems that Microsoft has reversed their previous decision to make Internet Explorer 8 crippled by default. They will be enabling the standards compliant mode by default in IE8, and webmasters will have to use the X-UA-Compatible header to force it into IE7 mode, for sites that can’t be updated immediately. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design | Tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie8 ie7, InternetExplorer, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, webstandards | Comments (4)

Internet Explorer 8: This is progress?

1/23/2008 – 9:25 am

Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test. Huzzah!

But waitaminnit… What’s this stuff about forward compatibility by adding some new X-UA-Compatible header to my pages or my server? Am I reading this right? Are you telling me that in order for IE8 to use its fully compliant rendering, we have to add something new to our pages? And that if we don’t, it will fall back to rendering pages just like IE7? Is that what this means?

That’s just dumb.

Screw their stupid “don’t break the web” motto. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design | Tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie7, ie8, InternetExplorer, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, Stupid, wasp, webstandards | Comments (16)

Firefox 3

1/4/2008 – 10:18 pm

Late last night, I installed Firefox 3 Beta 2. I’ve been running it all day, opening and closing tabs throughout, with a peak of around 45 tabs open, and an average somewhere around 25-30.

I don’t know what they’ve done to improve the memory handling (it’s currently using 394M virtual, 161M resident, 19M shared), but the responsiveness has been awesome. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Applications, Software, Tech | Tagged app, Beta, Firefox, Performance, ui | Comments (4)

Drinking the Ubuntu Kool-Aid

9/18/2006 – 4:41 pm

For quite a while, I had considered nuking Windows from my laptop and starting fresh. A few weeks ago, I finally took the plunge. I started with a full backup (two, actually — a file-by-file backup, and a partition image). I toyed with the idea of dual-booting, but finally decided that I’d try to go completely non-Windows, and see how well I could get by.

After hearing one of my co-workers rave about how impressed he was with Fedora Core, I was going to give that a try. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tech | Tagged Firefox, InternetExplorer, Laptops, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows | Comments (7)

CSS: The One True Layout

10/27/2005 – 5:21 pm

I had recently been using Alex Robinson’s 3-column CSS technique called “ordered columns, float-margin/float-margin” for some website designs. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in CSS, Design, Standards, Tech | Tagged CSS, Perl, PHP, Web | Comments (6)

IE7 and the demise of CSS hacks

10/13/2005 – 12:53 pm

As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in CSS, Design, Standards | Tagged CSS, InternetExplorer, Microsoft, Web | Comments (18)

Free Opera Registration

9/20/2005 – 10:25 am

You can now download the Opera 8.5 web browser license-free and ad-free. . [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Software, Standards | Tagged Free, Web | Comments (12)

Firefox and Thunderbird Betas

9/14/2005 – 10:23 am

I recently upgraded to the new 1.5 beta versions of both Firefox and Thunderbird. So far, I haven’t encountered any real problems. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Software | Tagged Beta, Feeds, Firefox, Mozilla, RSS, Thunderbird | Comments (4)

WordPress Sponsors BrowseHappy

6/1/2005 – 2:24 pm

WordPress is now the official host and sponsor of the BrowseHappy campaign, as noted in a WebStandards Project press release.

In an effort to refocus energy on advocating for standards from a perspective of universal access and vendor neutrality, WaSP is handing over the reigns of the BrowseHappy campaign to the good folks at WordPress.

What does this mean to the average user? Not a whole heck of a lot. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Community, Standards, WordPress | Tagged Web, WordPress | Comments (7)

Old wine in a new bottle

3/24/2005 – 12:09 pm

The topic of Ajax is pretty hot right now. And some people are getting a little hot over the naming. As I pointed out yesterday, and as Ian Hickson and Dare Obasanjo have also said, Ajax is not a new technology. [...]