Archive for Geek talk
March 22, 2006 at 10:37 pm · Filed under Geek talk, General
I’m still around, its been a while since I last posted, been dealing with a few things for the company website…primarily the three things that could make me pull my hair out when it comes to developing standards compliant pages…the continuing occurrence of bugs in IE6 in relation to web standards, the use of framesets (yes there are sites that still use those 90s style layouts), and horizontal scroll bars.
Blaaaa blaaaa blaaaaa.
It’ll all be done in the next month…fingers crossed, and then I can sleep easy!!!
February 28, 2006 at 9:47 pm · Filed under Browsers, Geek talk
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
February 9, 2006 at 9:28 pm · Filed under Geek talk
So I came into work and my boss said…”I’ve booked you on that 2 day conference”…completely forgetting what I’d sent her via email a month ago…so that’s it…I’m all booked on the @media event!
Should be interesting to see how it goes as I heard that last years event was quite good…and will be good to mingle with people in the same field of work, and bounce off ideas from each other, so can’t wait…am I sad for admitting I’m getting excited about a course to do with coding standards and such like? Oh dear!
So to all you fellow geeks out there…I’ll see you there!!!
Tags: atmedia
January 20, 2006 at 11:49 am · Filed under Geek talk
For those that may not know…vivabit are sponsoring the @media event in June.
I missed it last year, but the lineup is basically a who’s who for design, development and standards across the atlantic and Europe.
Should be good…gonna try and get booked onto that pronto!
Tags: atmedia
January 19, 2006 at 7:31 pm · Filed under CSS, Geek talk
Today I attended the Dave Shea workshop run by Carson Workshops, and all I can do is commend Ryan and Gill for organising such a great and informal workshop.
Dave is obviously a respected individual within the field, and was able to provide us with the knowledge that can be applied to our day to day work in CSS. It was refreshing and reassuring to know that I am not the only one that does things wrong, as even a few of the attendees pointed out slight errors in the code example session at the very end :).
Due to the size of the workshop, I was able to mingle with people that have a passion and desire to improve sites as much as I do, and discuss with Dave his plans to even do siteseeing around London.
I came away obtaining answers to questions I had, and hopefully this will be one of the many workshops I hope to attend in the future by these guys!
Excellent!!!!!
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