The busy developers over at Mozilla are at it again. They recently released a pre-alpha version of the next iteration of Firefox 3, dubbed “Minefield”. It’s pretty fast(I’m using it to make this post), although Firefox is pretty fast itself if you run it with no extensions. The extensions available for Minefield at the moment are pretty limited. There were some complaints about it being unstable(come on, it is pre-alpha after all), but I haven’t had any problems with it thus far. You can download it here, but be forewarned that it will alter your current Firefox installation to become the default version that gets launched.
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise
Posted by admin | Posted in HTML/CSS | Posted on 31-08-2008
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Six months ago Microsoft issued this statement:
As you may have heard by now, Internet Explorer 8 will ship with three layout modes – Quirks, IE7 Standards, and IE8 Standards. The saying goes: “put your best face forward” and, true to this, Internet Explorer 8 will use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default when encountering standards content.
Now, with the release of IE8 beta 2, it seems that statement is less than true; for intranet sites at least. Even when a site is completely standards compliant, if it’s on an intranet, IE8 will render it in compatibility mode by default. According to the article(see link below) roughly 60% of computers sold go to corporations with the remaining 40% going to home users. So, when you load the corporate homepage from your desk at work(internal) you will see it differently than a user loading it from the internet(external). EVEN IF the page is completly standards compliant with DOCTYPEs and everything.
Apparently, it’s not exactly easy to fix either. It’s just a checkbox, but it’s in an odd place and has a confusing description for the average user. To make matters worse, your page will have an icon next to the address bar that shows a broken page, just to.. you know.. cause more confusion:
WP is underwhelming/I am overly critical
Posted by admin | Posted in DanDev, HTML/CSS | Posted on 31-08-2008
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I’m kinda regretting the switch to WP. I’ve used it before, but I don’t remember it being this bloated. It has a lot of nice features, but it’s also incredibly slow. And one of the plugins caused the XHTML validation to fail with something like 89 errors.. I realize that it’s not part of the core, but features that I consider essential aren’t included, so I had to install some extra plugins.
In other news: I am overly critical of other people’s work. Even when it’s free I expect it to be of a very high standard. =P