“Thank you for taking the survey.” part 2
Back in April A List Apart held a survey among people working in the ‘web-industry’:
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
And *drumroll* here are the final results. Findings From the Web Design Survey
“Thank you for taking the survey.”
A List Apart is having a survey:
Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?
Take the survey yourself at alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey
2.0.0.2 does not equal 2.0.0.*?
Here’s a weird Firefox add-on installation error-message:
Looks like Firefox 2.0.0.x isn’t the same as 2.0.0.2.
Update: Fixed it with some notes from AMO a.k.a. version-number hacking.
Testing with IE6 and IE7 on a Single PC
Great news from the people who brought us Internet Explorer. They’ve released a Virtual PC image containing a time-limited WinXP SP2 with IE 6 for all our testing pleasure. No licensing required! And if you don’t have a copy of Virtual PC yet, they’ll give you Virtual PC 2004 for free to run it all.
Read the IEBlog on how to run IE6 and IE7 on a single PC.
Note: Haven’t tested it myself yet. I need to do some HD-cleaning first.
MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Apparently it’s live. A 3D extension to the map search of live.com which lets you fly through their maps like a bird.
Of course I wanted to:
See brand new, amazing 3D views that make using maps more exciting than ever.
No need to tell you this is IE 6/ IE 7 only. But a few install screens down the road I got the warning that my locale wasn’t supported. Argh… couldn’t that particular piece of detection not be done in advance? Or let me install anyway so I could view the skylines of US-only cities?
Thus for the moment no ‘review’, but there are plenty to be found around the web. Although I wouldn’t want to call it a ‘Google Earth killer‘ yet.
Oh and BTW: Why does Live.com keeps thinking I understand Spanish?
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Released
And another official one down! Less than a week ago Microsoft upped their browser to a 7.0 version. This time it’s the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Firefox is now a 2.0.
Yes, improved tabs, RSS discovery, looks, spell-checker for form-fields with downloadable dictionaries,… Get Firefox. If you dare.
I wonder how many extensions are borked this time. Let me tell ya in a minute…
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IE7 Released
It’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is here, for the general public that is.
Nuff said. Go download IE7. If you dare.
WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline
Here’s something I’ve been experimenting with. For a whole couple of minutes, at least. As with most WordPress plugins it was a matter of upload, activation and copy-pasting. Et voila:
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.
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Watching the sea-level rise, virtually.
Here’s an interesting Google Maps implementation: Flood Maps.
What if the sea-level where to rise? .. Because the polar ice-caps are melting at an alarming rate … Would you be able to keep your feet dry? Now you can find out for yourself. (And maybe decide about that piece of real-estate you’ve layed your eyes on. ;-))
As a resident of The Netherlands this is all old news. As I have had virtual wet feet all my live. But still it’s a nice *cough* mashup.
Meteor falls on YouTube
While I’m still working on the SEIS database update for Google Earth, I thought I’d just entertain you with some spectacular stuff available on YouTube. It turns out that the number one video site on the web has some interesting footage of meteors. Here’s a short list of what I’ve encountered thus far.
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