Opera 10, the web browser of the niche user, has been released today (on schedule). Among the new features is something called Turbo, which “uses compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections.” I guess this means I should try it at the cafe on those…
The self-proclaimed ‘Superfriends’ have come out with a positive note supporting HTML5 that is actually a cover letter to their significant concerns over some issues they and others have been raising for quite some time now. Their list of concerns crosses off the issue that’s been raised with the time…
Listen, if I’m going to start a blog on web development some 15 years after I actually started web development, I really need to accept that all the furor of debating HTML has long since passed me by. But wait – I am proven wrong! In case you are a…
Many of you may already be aware of the Eolas Technologies lawsuit against Microsoft for patent infringement as reported on News.com. It is perhaps the only time the general web community hasn’t been rooting for the little guy to win out over Microsoft. For those who don’t know, the short…
This Saturday, the .org top-level domain (TLD) will no longer be privately managed. With VeriSign’s contract with ICANN for management of the .org TLD ending December 31, 2002, ICANN put management of the new registry out to bid and has chosen the Internet Society (ISOC) / Public Interest Registry (PIR)…
So you’ve been wondering what all the hubbub is about this new browser that Apple has released, right? I bet you’re thinking to yourself, “oh dear, even more browsers in which to test.” Well, you’re right, it is a new browser to test, but it’s eerily familiar to many of…
The incredibly popular, active, and valuable mailing list devoted to Cascading Style Sheets, CSS-Discuss (css-d), has moved its hosting to evolt.org. After some brief list overlap, and a lot of server tweaking, the list opened its doors to its new home Monday, December 9. Started and moderated by Eric Meyer,…
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From the Publisher Title: Usable Web Menus Authors: Andy Beaumont, Dave Gibbons, Jody Kerr, Jon Stephens ISBN: 1904151027 Publisher: glasshaus Price: US$ 13.99 at Amazon.com Page Count: 200 Publication Date: March 2002 When developing a web site, one of the most important things to consider is the navigation menu, to…
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Mozilla.org has officially released the 1.0 version of Mozilla, which, of course, includes the Gecko rendering engine. Since 1998, when Netscape opened up the source code to allow development of a new browser, through the aquisition of Netscape by AOL in 1999, followed by the release of Netscape 6.0 (built…
Jakob Nielsen, in a busy week, releases a report criticizing e-commerce sites, and teams up with Macromedia to help them make Flash 99% less bad. E-commerce Is 51% Bad The first report, from News.com, describes a study released by the Nielsen Norman Group. The study claims that, from a field…