The folks that make the Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer web browsers have agreed on a standard feed icon to represent the loveliness that is both RSS and Atom (and whatever they may evolve into in the years ahead). The winner? The orange and white icon Firefox users have been enjoying for [...]
Zeldman, whom I very much admire for his book Designing With Web Standards, seems to have a left a very bad example for the rest of the web development community when it comes to Internet Explorer 7 beta.
What’s he doing exactly? He’s concerning himself with incompatibilities between his site and IE7 beta.
If you’re wondering [...]
Why Internet Explorer Sucks
Internet Explorer 6 sucks and there’s a clear reason why. They simply stopped working on it. After IE6 came out, Microsoft disbanded the product team. Let me repeat that. Having released Internet Explorer 6, they shut down the team and distributed it’s programmers to other parts of the [...]
I spent the last week trying to use Firefox as my primary browser, an experiment to see if I should have it replace Safari. The results? As of today, I’m back to Safari. Why?
Safari:
has inline spellchecking from an OS-wide dictionary.
runs much faster, especially when loading up multiple tabs.
has much better integration with [...]
Notable improvements:
a new customizable UI for writing your posts
a fantastic new post preview
easy file uploading
new import section for migrating content from other blogs
My only criticism at this point is that the admin tool seems to have gotten unnecessarily chunky.
I’ve successfully upgraded two installs, but a third didn’t go so well for reasons not entirely known [...]
Firefox 1.5 is ready to go, so make sure you head over and download it. In addition, it’s a good time to pimp it out to your friends and help them get away from the aging browser they’ve simply gotten used to. (Although it’s best to leave Safari users alone as they still [...]
This is great news. It would seem Microsoft is working with the Web Standards Project which we can only hope means a healthy commitment to standards support in Internet Explorer 7 and beyond. Good to hear. If you don’t understand why this is such a good thing, pick up a copy of [...]
So, Microsoft announced operating system-wide support for RSS in longhorn last week, but what grabbed more attention was that Microsoft also announced their own extension to RSS.
First off, Microsoft is arriving late to this party, and not in the fashionable manner. Sure, they’re releasing it under a kinder license than usual, but the whole [...]
Google has removed Web Accelerator citing that they have reached capacity. I can’t help but wonder if all the negative feedback was the real reason. Here’s hoping it’s gone for good.
Previously:
To All: Don’t Use Google Accelerator, To Google: Don’t Be Evil
For your safety and the health of the web, don’t install Google Accelerator. If you already have installed it, please uninstall Google Accelerator. Google Accelerator makes the huge mistake of treating the web as if it were all content without regard for applications, which is incredibly strange for a company that works largely [...]
