Will this be the year the Microsoft redeems themselves?
Recently M$ started forcing users to upgrade to IE8. Of course there is no forcing, but they are strongly suggesting it, and for good reasons. For once, they have a browser that actually plays nicely with other browsers. Finally IE can stop being the kid on the playground that everyone punches in the face for no reason and can join the rest of the kids on the swings.
From a programmers standpoint, this could mean that IE6 is on it’s way out. I mean the only people still using IE6 are people who have refused the upgrade in the past.
So please, when you get that little dialog asking you to upgrade, please just do it… do it for the web!
In other news, Windows 7 is hopefully coming out in October, and M$ just released Bing which so far has had a pretty good response.
Maybe Microsoft will finally have a chance on the internet!
Posted by Jeffrey Li on May 9, 2009
At some point in our career, I’m sure many of us ran into a situation where we find ourselves explaining what we do. Whether it’s about the baiscs of web design or developing for standards, it can be frustrating trying to explain everything to someone who’s not technically savy. Well, over the weekend, a close [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Apr 14, 2009
It’s no secret that most web developers use Firefox for developing even if it’s not their favorite browser. Why? Well because of the vast library of extensiona that aid us along. I thought I would list some of my favorite extensions and a brief description.
Firebug - It’s a great DOM inspector
Greasemonkey - Uses JavaScript to [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Apr 6, 2009
This past weekend I was working on a feature that will need to be able to store checkbox data into a MySQL table row using PHP. I kept getting different errors, and could not figure out for the life of me why this was happening. After searching on the internet for a LONG time, and [...]
Posted by Greg Paone on Mar 20, 2009
As a programmer I hear a lot about how we need to make our sites and features usable. “Usability” can have a different meaning to every other person. To some, usability can mean making sure the site layout is not a mess or the graphics make the site look pretty. Others have more critical [...]
Posted by Greg Paone on Mar 10, 2009
People’s advice (whether requested or not) has been flowing since time began. I imagine cave dwellers had their share of heated arguments over the colors of drawings on the walls. I’ve been posting to my personal blog over the past six months and have been searching for advice on how to be an effective blogger [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Mar 5, 2009
Lindsey was so kind as to show this to me:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/04/firefox.overtakes.ie6/
That’s right, Firefox has finally overtaken IE6. Suddenly, the sky seems brighter, the grass a bit greener, and all seems right with the world.
Looking at the graph provided in the article, the one thing that really puzzles me is the slight increase in IE6 usage [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Mar 3, 2009
Have you ever wanted to set up your own web server.
I know that I have, and I found a great tutorial as to how to do that!
Having your own server is actually really nice, especially if you are very in to programming. If you’ve got an old computer laying around that you dont’ really use [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Feb 20, 2009
I’ve been spending a lot of time the past few weeks trying to broaden my horizons. From reading more, to taking a further interest in the arts, to making an effort to travel more often, all in all it’s been a pretty rewarding experience. If you are interested in such things, it would [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Feb 10, 2009
That’s right, cascading style sheets based sites for the win! A few months ago we here at Solid Cactus cooked up the following list of why CSS based sites are awesome.
1. The use of CSS has been preferred by many developers who follow the W3 standards. HTML should be for content ONLY, styling [...]
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