Archive for June, 2005
A decade of WebDev.
Posted on Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
What did people do before there was the internet? Well, they … uhm… well there was tv and board games. You had to do stuff using pen (as opposed to an ink-cartridge) and paper. And I think you physically went to a store to buy stuff. But seriously, the World Wide Web (does anyone call [...]
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IE’s dead, hail the new King!
Posted on Saturday, June 25th, 2005
… and the new king is ‘Longhorn‘!
Well, not exactly, it’s RSS!
I’ve watched the video, scanned Technorati, clicked on TechCrunch, taken a look at the IE Blog, re-visited C|Net, shivered at the Creative Commons Blog, read the last Gnomedex’r story, …
What’s left? I say, Redmond got the idea late in the game. But as usual [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, Intranet, News, Opera, RSS, Webfeeds | No Comments »
What’s that animal?
Posted on Saturday, June 25th, 2005
What’s that animal looking over the shoulder of MS IE RSS-team member Amar Gandhi?
Full video over at Channel 9. See 22 minutes in. (185Meg WMV. NOT linked directly.)
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet Explorer, MSN Search, RSS, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
Diese Seite übersetzen
Posted on Friday, June 24th, 2005
Just learned about a cool feature of the ‘German’ editions of Google. When you encounter an English spoken site on www.google.de or www.google.ch it offers you an extra option to automatically translate the page into ‘Deutsch’. As usual it stinks because it’s machine generated. But reading your posts translated is cool nonetheless.
Old news for [...]
Posted in General, Google, Search | No Comments »
To Watch: Microsoft to Add Ordered List support in RSS?
Posted on Friday, June 24th, 2005
Microsoft has a history of inventing proprietary things. So when I found this announcement on C|Net I was a bit sceptical at first.
What’s the deal? It appears Microsoft will announce an extension to RSS (2.0?) today at Gnomedex for a better support of ordered lists in feeditems. Big deal! Everybody is putting lists in [...]
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Turning off the ‘friendly HTTP error messages’ in Firefox
Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
By accident I stumbled upon this Firefox somewhat equivalent of IE’s ‘Show friendly HTTP error messages’ option. Any webdeveloper should have this turned off by default. How else will you know what the problem is? So here’s how to do it:
Open up a new tab (CTRL+T) or window (CTRL+N).
Type in de addressbar: about:config.
In the [...]
Posted in Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, Intranet, WebDev, Webdesign | 6 Comments »
Google Maps expands to Europe, needs to learn more…
Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Finally Google Maps expands to Europe. First there was the UK and now the rest of the continent.
BUT!
I always had a hunch that Americans weren’t too involved in European geography. Especially the smaller countries. No problem there, but I would expect from Google to check and double-check their facts first. [...]
Posted in General, Google, Internet, News, Search | No Comments »
Technorati out of beta
Posted on Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
It seems that Technorati is out of beta. If you go to Technorati, the ubiquitous RSS/Feeds search engine, you’ll see a totaly revamped lay-out. Sure, it was visitable on beta.technorati.com for some time now. But somebody threw the switch tonight.
In Short:
Improved the user experience
More Tags-stuff
More powerful advanced search features
More personalization
New Watchlist capabilities
Removal of duplicat [...]
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Usability Week 2005 San Francisco
Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2005
This week, from June 20 till 25, the Nielsen Norman Group is holding a conference on usability in San Francisco. This is the last in a series of conferences which were held in New York, Stockholm and London.
The Usability Week 2005 Conference is:
Usability Week 2005 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering a [...]
Posted in Design, Development, General, Internet, Intranet, WebDev, Webdesign | 2 Comments »
The end of IE 5
Posted on Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
I’ve given up on IE 4 and Netscape 4 a while ago. Meaning I won’t do anything extra for them anymore. They’ll just have to take the page as-is, no unnecessary or fatal script errors though, but that’s where it ends. If it doesn’t work or looks horrible, too bad.
So how about IE 5? Will [...]
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