Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

How’s that look in IE9?… Wait, what!?

Yes folks, no sooner are we getting over the quirks/compatibility more of IE8, than news reaches us that IE9 is roadmapped and due sooner than we thought.
Read all about it from Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet
It’s like buses. Stuck with IE6 for years and then IE7, IE8, IE9…
While on that subject, here’s a great [...]


Shaddapp@font-face!!!

Ok, not quite in the Joe Dolce school of productivity, but this is all over the web at the moment and needs a mention.
While choosing a project for my degree, I toyed with the idea of creating a plugin for Firefox which would allow developers to include their own fonts in stylesheets and webpages by [...]


Internet addresses set to recognise non western characters

ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation charged with responsibility forĀ  Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation and country code (ccTLD) amongst other things is meeting in Seoul this week.
Coming out of that meeting it has been agreed to to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, that is set to change the way [...]


Happy Birthday Mr. Internet

The internet is 40 years old today. Can you believe it? It only seems like yesterday… only joking I am not that old.
October 29th was when one message was sent from one computer to another… the message consisted of one word with three letters …. “Log” but the computer crashed and only “LO” was received.
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AJAX “crawls”? Google to the rescue!

Google has offered their experience and support to make AJAX sites easy to crawl. Sounds like a win-win?


No good deed goes unpunished…

Did you hear about SideWiki, the brand new browser add-on released by Google?


10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines…

Smashing Magazine have an excellent article calledĀ 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines.
Lots of very good points and observations.
Check it out


Google strikes back

It was clear since the first “anomaly” appeared on the Google doodles few days ago that the lads in Google were up to something: the main question has been “what are they up to?” for a good few days…


The browser that just won’t die…

As a web developer and long time supporter of aesthetic design, especially with regard to good web design, I have long embraced the recent developments that (have continued to) make the web great. I loved AJAX when it first arrived, jQuery is ground breaking and the design standards that have been adopted (and adapted) over [...]


HTML 5 now?

Among the hot topics covered by the @media conference in London, HTML 5 is one of the most intriguing and remarkable. This is not just because, in all likelihood, it is going to create a new frontier for web design, gradually replacing XHTML, but also because we can already start using it in our work.