Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we're pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6 isn't worth the time and effort. Just let your page degrade, and provide an avenue for users to upgrade.
Comedy Central New Site Dev Blog: Hey Hey! Ho Ho! IE6 Has Got To Go!
Cuil is a new search engine on the block, trying to displace Google from the top of the search heap. They say their index is larger than Google's, as if size is THAT important, and was launched by former Google employees.
I've been using the Firefox 3 betas for a few months, and now actual release candidates are coming out of Mozilla HQ. I made the switch because Firefox 2 was causing the load on my work PC to spike randomly , leaving the machine useless for a stretches lasting seconds. The performance tweaks for memory usage and the rest seem to have done the trick, and even the v3 betas were better than their predecessor.
According to InfoWorld, the next update of IE7 will be automatically downloaded and installed:Microsoft warns businesses of impending autoupdate to IE7. Just thought you might want to know, in case you want to keep IE6 around.
On our way to dinner Friday, my Dad and I were wondering what is the exact difference between a router and a switch. Sounds like something basic most anybody with a home network should know, but at best all we could do was guess/BS our way through the answer. Wikipedia to the rescue.
Here's an article Jason is sure to enjoy, Digg's failing democracy. I agree mostly, Digg was novel at first, but now for every potentially interesting story on any page, there are 10 others that are a waste of time. Here's a telling fact: slashdot is still in my feed reader, while digg's feed was removed long ago. Maybe I'm just getting old, but going to digg feels like jumping into a room full of geek-wanna-be's with ADD.
The video below is a great attempt at explaining it in layman friendly terms, but I doubt that most people, especially the majority of those whose job touches the web in one form or another, will really grok it. I blame Word Processors, which taught a generation of folks that content and formatting are basically one and the same. If more people understood how they are separable, you'd see more users using Microsfot Word's Styles to manage the appearance of their documents, instead of hard-coding bold and font sizes to what they want to look like a title.
Shockingly, Web Designers should know how to design for the web, not just for Photoshop. Its a point that was driven home during my recent trip to California for Forum One's (my employer) Online Community Summit.
Now that we're starting to get some benefits from maturing HTML, CSS, and Javascript implementations, via libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous, Jquery, mootools, and so on, along come the vendors hawking their own proprietary re-invention of the same thing. Wheter its Adobe's Flash/Apollo/Flex, Microsofts's recently demo'd Silverlight, or Sun's rumoured own re-imagining of it all. But who am I to listen to, go read Mark Pilgrim's take on it, Silly Season.
There are benefits to panels. Unlike server logs, which measure individual users by the number of times an unrecognized Internet protocol address visits a site, panels can tell companies more about the audience's demographic composition. This is possible as panel members share such information as age, gender, and income level. Unlike using IP addresses, panels can also help distinguish between visits by different computers, which may have the same user, and visits by actually different people.
