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Microsoft has launched the Internet Explorer 8 Beta “for Developers and Designers”. I’m too busy to take it for a spin myself at the moment, so I’ll just settle for the online commentary for now.
A nice follow up to the rendering news earlier this week.
Have you tested it? How does your design work with it?
Good news! Microsoft have decided to make the standards compliant mode in Internet Explorer 8 the default setting! This means we won’t have to do IE specific tags to let the browser know that we want it to display in standards mode.
The what now? Default rendering modes? What? Ina Fried explains:
With IE8, Microsoft plans to […]
Matt Harzewski of Webmaster-Source asks if Internet Explorer 5 is dead, and does a nice little bullet list of things that have happened since 1998 (which is funny since IE5 launched in 1999, which he also notes).
9 years is serious time for a web browser. There is no excuse for IE5 to exist anymore.
Luckily, it […]
This is both fun and stupid. John Cow (not Chow) has hacked his own site. Take a look at johncow.com, or below if it’s “saved” already.
Clicking the PayPal link will reveal that the ransom money goes to cownapper@johncow.com, i.e. the John Cow fellow himself.
Brilliant or madness? I don’t know, it is great linkbait though, as […]
So you have decided to hop aboard the freelance web developer’s train and ride it to your millions. You read all of the prerequisites like SitePoint and the new must-reads like Freelance Switch. You scoured the job boards around the net and have finally connected with your first client only to run into a major […]
What used to be the common way of helping your community find your peers is now outlawed — reciprocal linking is now a violation against the Google Webmaster Guidelines.
Webmasters are outraged over the recent change in Google’s policy, now specifically targetting what they refer to as “Link Schemes”:
Examples of link schemes can include:
Links intended to […]
Don’t you hate it when you’re working on a site, and you finish fighting with CSS, resolving disputes between Firefox and IE7 so everything is perfect, and then you jump over to IE6 only to discover that everything is totally screwed up? I’ve just finished some coding on a site, and I’m so sick of […]
Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on November 10th, 2006.
The Web 2.0 world seems to have a problem regarding traffic. It seems to be the measure of success for a website and because of […]
Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on August 8th, 2006.
Developing traffic is a fine art on the web. Sometimes we get lost in the fact that just because it is easy to build a […]
Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on August 2nd, 2005.
Developing traffic for your site is one thing, but developing a community is an even harder task. With traffic you can follow a formula that […]
