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CSS3 calc() coming to Firefox
Posted by admin on Jun 10, 2010 in Uncategorized
This article explains it all. Take a look and see what CSS3 calc() can do. Pretty nifty stuff!
Hurricane Stats
Posted by admin on Aug 15, 2009 in Uncategorized
Over the last week I have watched Hurricane go from number 5 to number 3 in the US iTunes Store, a place Hurricane has not seen since last year, before the release of The Weather Channel and Weather Bug paid apps. Hurricane has remained in the top 5 in Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and has remained in the top 10 in El Salvador and Canada. Hurricane has also been in the top 100 over all apps in El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica during July and August.
We love our customers! Kitty Code has received so much great feedback, both through the App Store and through email, which has shown how great we are doing with the app. Things are running smoothly with the data feed, and while we do babysit the data, just to be sure, it’s nice knowing we don’t really have to – and the system just handles it all.
Haven’t checked out Hurricane yet? If you live in an area prone to hurricanes, you should definitely take a look. You will not be disappointed.
IE6 Must Die!
Posted by admin on Jul 18, 2009 in Uncategorized
A few days ago, Mashable posted an article stating that IE6 must die. The Twitter community agreed, and took it one step more and created a cause on Twibbon to spread the word!
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With all of the push behind killing off Internet Explorer 6, one must really understand that it is a business decision. As web designers and developers, it is our job to express the sound judgement of what the majority of our users want to see. The unfortunate thing about this movement is that there are a lot of people in business who are stuck on IE6, because their IT departments do not see the value in updating their computers. I would think for security reasons alone the browser should be updated to at least IE7 if not IE8. Each company and business must decide their own fate.
With all of that being said, the users of our web applications should not be held back by the 15% still using IE6 in my opinion. There are SO many cool things that we can do with the new technologies, and based on the sales of next generation devices like the iPhone, people clearly want the new cool things. The answer maybe as simple as letting the user know they need to update their 8 year old browser. With services like YouTube and Facebook dropping support for IE6, where a vast majority of non-tech savvy users play on the web, the social media websites will be the biggest help in pushing users of older browsers forward. Like the upgrade from HTML 3 to HTML 4, maybe the upgrade from HTML 4 to HTML 5 will be the thing that pushes developers to drop support for the older browsers, and therefore push people who are behind to the newer browsers.
We can all hope for the best, but ultimately the people who are still using the older browsers, and the IT departments which have not rolled out the latest need to decide that now is the time. The question becomes, how do we as a development community convince those who are left behind to catch up?
What is a browser?
Posted by admin on Jun 19, 2009 in Uncategorized
Google asks people in Times Square “What is a browser?”… Considering I started using a “browser” back in 1995, I was in a good deal of shock that most people had no idea what a browser was. No wonder so many people still use Internet Explorer after all these years!
At this point, if you have watched the video already and are still looking for the answer. It is simple.
Simply put, a web browser is the thing you use to visit websites. The most common web browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera. There are MANY more not mentioned here.
A SEARCH ENGINE – Google, Yahoo, Bing (it’s new), and Web Crawler (do you remember that one?) …
What causes the confusion?
There are a lot of factors, but having the Search Engine plugins which automatically search when you get your website URL wrong is probably a good indicator of why there is confusion. If you don’t understand how it works already (and most people don’t want to understand) then you will think that all of the rolled up technologies are a single technology instead of seeing the small moving parts.
And with that, I am just amazed.
Chrome: Last browser standing
Posted by admin on Mar 20, 2009 in Uncategorized
Interesting article on browser security…
Browser vendors often make strong claims about their responsiveness to vulnerability reports and their ability to preemptively prevent exploits. Security is becoming one of the most significant fronts in the new round of browser wars, but it’s also arguably one of the hardest aspects of software to measure or quantify.
