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
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Posted in Browsers, CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design
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Also tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie8 ie7, InternetExplorer, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, webstandards
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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
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Posted in Browsers, CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design
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Also tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie7, ie8, InternetExplorer, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, Stupid, wasp, webstandards
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![[A screenshot of welovewp.com]](/pics/welovewp.com.png)
WeLoveWP.com highlights great looking WordPress sites, and it’s powered by WordPress, too!
From time to time, someone will hear that I’m involved with WordPress, and ask me a few questions about it. [...]
Here’s an addendum for my previous post about OpenID: AOL supports OpenID authentication for all(?) screennames. [...]
Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress
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Also tagged FOAF, hCard, Identity, PHP, plugin, Sandbox, SingleSignOn, SSO, Web, WordPress, yahoo
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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
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Posted in Browsers, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tech
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Also tagged Firefox, InternetExplorer, Laptops, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows
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Microsoft puts out a lot of FUD claiming that Linux is inferior to Windows. But their new company-wide wireless network will be driven by Linux-based equipment.
Aruba Networks was selected to provide the networking equipment for what is considered to be one of the world’s largest next-generation wireless LANs, serving more than 25,000 simultaneous users a day in some 60 countries. [...]
