November 13th, 2004
Just posted a Opera 7.60 Preview 3 entry at Forever Geek (where I have posted too seldom these days). Firefox fans, don’t be offended or surprised - I still love Firefox! But really, Opera seems to have had some improvements ever since our very own Asa Dotzler ranted about the horrible-ness of its UI.
October 27th, 2004
You’d probably already have heard of or seen Silktide Sitescore that purports to “rate how well designed, popular and accessible your website is”. A while back it used to tell me I was a criminal for having an inaccessible website. I got sub-5 scores and a close-to-zero score for accessibility. I was surprised but attributed it the script doing something wrong somewhere (it is automated after all and Cynthia did tell me my site was OK in terms of accessibility).
Recently, after reading Ingoal’s post on an update to his score, I tried out Silktide again and to my surprise, got a respectable 8.6. (Ingoal’s a fellow Advisor at SitePoint - this guy knows computers.) After some fixing some XHTML-validation borkage, I eked out a 10 for accessibility and managed to get a 9.2 overall score (and a 9.3 once). That puts me in the top 10 (true to form, I’m right at the bottom at number 10 below SitePoint).
I’m not sure it means anything except that it goes to show what a poor boy I must be to keep posting about rankings and scores. Perhaps it’s my low self-esteem working here.
But I have to say again, thank you for your donations to Firefox and keep donating whether you do so via my donation link or not! (What am I talking about? Read more. This too.)
You can now (actually, since August 24) get Opera 7.60 Preview 1 for Windows. Cool new features: something called Medium-Screen Rendering that “reformats pages so they fit better on smaller screens”, and speech-enabled browsing via XHTML+Voice 1.2! (4)
August 11th, 2004
Tony Chor, the Group Program Manager for the IE team, writes:
We also came up with a very original idea – popup blocking.
The idea was so ridiculous I knew it had to be a joke. And it was, when Tony later writes:
For the record, I was joking about our “innovation” around popup blocking.
But not after several not entirely unexpected flames (I found the popup blocking innovation comment from a site flamed the blog post too) from people who didn’t get it.
Anyway, if you haven’t seen this yet (it was on Slashdot - I don’t read it though, perhaps you do), you can get Windows XP Service Pack 2 via BitTorrent at SP2Torrent.com. Not from Microsoft (so it’s not “official”), but you got to wonder why Microsoft doesn’t embrace BitTorrent for distributing XP SP2 and do away with all that initial hoo-ha about staggered release schedules.
July 23rd, 2004
IEBlog is the official ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog’.
Some of us have our individual blogs today, but we also wanted to have one that was focused on what we do every day at work – make Internet Explorer the best way for browsing the web.
Lookout Firefox!
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