Category: 'WebDev'
Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The grand prize winners of the Extend Firefox competition are in. One of them is the one I use on a daily basis. In fact it’s the biggest reason why I’m using Firefox as my main browser. Props to Chris! But IMHO the Web Developer toolbar is only usefull for us web developers (and people [...]
Posted in Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, News, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
Google Page Creator (Beta of course)
Posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Normally I wouldn’t blog about yet another new Google product release. Now would I? Hey, I’m not the Googleblog you know. But this time they’ve released a product that lets my mother create webpages in no-time, although I doubt if anyone’s waiting for another bridge-site. (Sorry mom. ) So what is it? It’s an easy-to-use [...]
Posted in Design, Development, General, Google, News, ThinkLemon, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview available
Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
It’s public! So if you want to have a go take a look at the Internet Explorer 7 website. But before you do so, also take a look at the IEBlog: IE7 Beta 2 Preview Available Please send us your feedback on the IE7 Beta 2 Preview Please test your sites with IE7 Frequently Asked [...]
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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Over at Google Code they ran a survey, in December 2005, looking at a couple of webpages trying to find out which elements and their respective attributes are used most. And more importantly how they are used. We took a sample of slightly over a billion documents, and looked at what elements were used on [...]
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Which Browsers matter in 2006?
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
If you are planning to build or rebuild a site this year you may wonder at some point which browsers you should support. If not, you should! Just looking at your new design in IE 6 is no guarantee it works and behaves the same in any other browser. Not that long ago the browser [...]
Posted in Apple, Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet Explorer, Opera, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
WordPress 2.0 Cache Is Broken!
Posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2006
As of version 2.0 of WordPress you’ll get a caching feature, which means it’ll ‘remember’ the most frequent accessed static information from your blog. This way it’s supposed to not bother the database but make a ‘fast trip’ to the server to fetch these pieces of info. In the end this should make your weblog [...]
Posted in General, Internet, Intranet, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev | 12 Comments »
Is WordPress 2.0 that sluggish?
Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Directly after upgrading this weblog, little over a week ago, I felt it was a little bit sluggish. Compared to the 1.5 version I was running before. Maybe it could be just the webserver as I’m running on a shared hosting solution. Therefore one of the neighbours could be having a party… again. But finding [...]
Posted in Development, General, Internet, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev | 3 Comments »
{Canvas} demo
Posted on Monday, November 28th, 2005
If you’re viewing this post with a release candidate of Firefox 1.5, take a look at the below <canvas> demo. For now, you can only walk through a maze from a first person perspective. But it runs smooth and looks pretty impressive. See the “3D Walker” demo on Canvascape PS: It is rumored to work [...]
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Yahoo! Local Maps Beta
Posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Yahoo! Maps is offering a Beta version which is based on Flash! – shock & horror – What were they thinking? I do like it. It’s snappy, looks good and simply works. (hearing that MS?) Go see the Yahoo! Maps Beta for yourself. For instance check out the ubiquitous “Pizza in Redmond” sample. Hover & [...]
Posted in Design, Development, General, Internet, Search, Webdesign, WebDev, Yahoo | No Comments »
Let’s make the Google API an open standard.
Posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Here’s a good idea: An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits.
Posted in Development, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, Search, Utilities, WebDev, Webfeeds, Yahoo | No Comments »