Well its now official! According to the WC3 web site FireFox is now the most popular browser used on the internet. A whopping great 39% of internet users!! This is really cool news, a deserving application gaining the status of also being the most popular.
“A leading expert on computer surveillance has raised serious doubts over the legality of deals by BT, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse to sell their customers’ web browsing data to Phorm, a new online advertising company.“
So there you have it … I the bastard multinationals making yet more cash off the little man. I [...]
I just can’t get over this!! Whilst working on a VS2005 C# project at work to create a web interface for one of my employers systems I encountered something I just couldn’t believe. As part of the design aspx file VS2005 provides for outputting A GridView with a property of [RowStyle-Wrap="false"] which basically [...]
Have found a couple of really useful tools for helping the web development process today. Two development toolbars for the two most popular web browsers. First up there is the IE Developer Toolbar which you can get here:
IEDevToolBar
And the second is Firebug for Firefox which you can get here:
FireBug
I’ve only just installed [...]
I’ve just finished the major phase of setup on my girlfriends new website. All looking good so far, there are a quite a few small jobs left but the bulk of the work is complete and online now. You can view the site here.
Well I’ve learned a nice little IE workaround for the bane of all web designers programming lives. You can create the perfect CSS file that renders your page beautifully in all browsers save for the world dominating Internet Explorer. Its a really neat little one as well, none of that horrible dynamic PHP [...]
This is a seriously neat bit of extension work IMHO. A “Speed Dial” extension that manages your faveourite websites in a separate tab in your browser window for quick access in a load of different ways. You can have thumbnails in a tab view, you can literally use it like a speed dial [...]
This is so cool, so so so cool … A live webcam focussed on the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
Watch the Pyramids Live
Some wise guy worked out that if Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.”
In response Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but [...]
Are 25 years old today apparently … happy birthday!!
