Category: 'Development'
“Thank you for taking the survey.” part 2
Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
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 […]
Posted in Internet, News, WebDev, Development, Design, Webdesign, General | No Comments »
Testing with IE6 and IE7 on a Single PC
Posted on Friday, December 1st, 2006
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.
Posted in WebDev, News, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Internet Explorer, Design, General | No Comments »
MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Posted on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Apparently it’s live. A 3D extension to the map search of live.com which lets you fly through their maps like a bird.
Posted in Search, MSN Search, News, Development, Internet Explorer, General | 3 Comments »
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Released
Posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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.
Posted in News, Utilities, Internet, Development, Browsers, Firefox, General | 1 Comment »
IE7 Released
Posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
It’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is here, for the general public that is.
Posted in Internet, Utilities, WebDev, Development, Browsers, Internet Explorer, General | No Comments »
WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline
Posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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.
Posted in Utilities, Development, General | 1 Comment »
ThinkLemon Reset: Part 1.1 - Code Cleanup and Validation
Posted on Saturday, June 17th, 2006
After having thrown out the CSS last month, I’ve been messing with the templating code that make up this WordPress theme. Though the default Kubrick theme is great, it took me a while to get all bits sorted out. Some cleaning up, re-arranging, looking up, inline documenting, debugging, etc. led to what you’re looking […]
Posted in WebDev, Reset, Development, Webdesign, ThinkLemon, Design, General | 3 Comments »
Major Google Earth Update (Maps to follow)
Posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Read all about it on the Official Google Blog: Happy Birthday, Google Earth:
We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, you can download a brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto. […]
Posted in Desktop, Utilities, Google Earth, Google, Search, Development, Internet, News, General | 3 Comments »
Get Firebug!
Posted on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
if ((bWebDeveloper || bWebDesigner) && bFirefox) {
try {
var oNewExtension = new cExtension();
oNewExtension.fetchXPI = fnFetchURL(”www.getfirebug.com“);
oNewExtension.installXPI();
if (oNewExtension.success) {
console.log(”Firebug installed successfully.”);
var oFurtherOptions = getElementById(”divTellUser”);
[…]
Posted in WebDev, Internet, Intranet, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Firefox, Design, General | No Comments »
Visualising the DOM for fun
Posted on Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The Document Object Model, or DOM as it is known better, is usually visualised as a tree. For instance with the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar or DOM Inspector / Firebug for Firefox. But there are other more fun ways, like Aharef did.
Posted in Internet, Utilities, WebDev, Development, ThinkLemon, General | No Comments »