Girl Gone Geeky

Can it be true? Microsoft are opening their arms out to the Firefox/Thunderbird camp so they can work together with the development of the browser to run smoothly on Windows Vista?

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/8/21/5065

Well its good to see that Microsoft are taking an interest in the work on Firefox. About bleedin’ time!

Forever the synic, I have to wonder whether this is all just a ploy to make those anti-IE people see Microsoft in a better light. Rather than help the developers work on making Firefox run smoother, maybe they should concentrate on making their own browser more standards compliant!

Tags: IE, Firefox, Microsoft, Mozilla, Browsers, Windows Vista

With the recent article on Microsoft’s release of IE7, developers are gonna have their work cut out for them with regards to the usage of hacks specifically for older browser versions of IE.

I for one am guilty for doing such a thing, despite the warnings given in the IEblog so I am frantically trying to piece things together with the projects at work, and using what options I have to make the transition to IE7 seamless.

Easy as pie!

Tags: css hacks, ie7

So here lies the second day summary of the @media conference, which was jam packed full of geeky stuff. (more…)

Having fully recovered from the last two day’s worth of events, I guess you could say its about time that I give a quick overview of the two day affair…one - so that I can keep a note of the conference, and two - to share with those that didn’t get a chance to attend, a rundown of what went on. (more…)

Tags: atmedia, atmedia2006

The beta 2 preview version for IE7 has been out a while now, but question is, is it any good compared to the other bad boy browsers that are out there at the moment? Granted, it is still in its beta phase, so isn’t the final release, but with the way previous versions of IE have been, I’m gonna have to be swayed by a miracle to get me to fully appreciate IE browsers the way I do the other competitor browsers out there now.

Its fact that a large majority of the web public choose to use the Bill Gates browser because they are windows users who are either not clued up on the web development world, or just don’t give a damn about the likes of firefox and opera…so the question is, do we even bother developing for these uber browsers or do we stick to what everyone uses.

I know what my answer to that question is hands down. Firefox is probably (with Camino close behind for the MAC users) one of the more standards compliant browsers that is taking the web dev world by storm. It seems to follow what the w3 body suggests, and is recommended by all well known designers, developers near and far. As developers, we should be creating pages that adhere to what the w3 stipulates are the standards of the web, and by doing so, we should develop pages suitable for the most standards compliant browser, because those that lack this now, will only get better later…rather than us backtracking from our fixes and hacks and such like which will only become redundant at a later date.

I have yet to go through IE7 beta 2…just for the pure reason that I can’t be arsed. Woohoo, it finally has multiple tabbing available…woohoo it has a zoom increase facility…but then safari, opera and firefox had that ages ago…big deal! IE6 has been around for so long, goodness knows how long it will take for the final release of IE7 to be created (with I probably assume will still be buggy, but then again it may all change, so there might not be a need to panic), but I can’t help but favour opera and firefox just for the little update messages built in the browsers to inform the user of a more recent version…which seem to be more frequent than the likes of IE.

But hey, I shall stop right there…to be fair none of the browsers are passing the ACID2 test, so I guess there’s no perfect browser out there…but until then, I’ll be happy with the Mozilla developer crew to continue doing what they do and make myself and many other geeks out there very happy!!!

Tags: browsers, IE7, Internet Explorer