Mike Davies works as a web developer for Yahoo Europe and has some insightful comments on the Internet Explorer rendering switch (see source).
When a user upgrades from IE7 to IE8, they will be upgrading from IE7 to IE7. When a user upgrades from IE8 to IE9, they will be upgrading from IE7 to IE7. Notice [...]
Entries from January 2008
Responsible browser vendors are hard to come by
January 28th, 2008 ·
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Top sites for inexpensive videogames
January 24th, 2008 ·
The following sites might prove useful if you suffer from a games addiction:
http://www.find-games.co.uk price comparison for games
http://www.cex.co.uk – high street swap shop but great secondhand prices
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Improving someone’s code
January 23rd, 2008 ·
Don’t call your submit button ’submit’ if you want to change the submit event with Javascript:
If you do, the browser (please read “Firefox 1.5 or IE 6″ – that’s what I tested at the moment) will consider submit is an object. And an object is not a function (although you might enjoy later on the [...]
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Wifi detector shirt
January 23rd, 2008 ·
All you need now is a mirror to see your own shirt:
This Wi-Fi Detector Shirt will detect Wi-Fi hot spots around you and will show you a signal each time it detects a working Wi-Fi spot.The Wi-Fi shirt will even show you the signal strength of the Wi-Fi hot spot around you and will [...]
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Facts from Microsoft
January 22nd, 2008 ·
Apparently they have not processed my 200+ logs I sent to them:
Windows Vista users generally experience 20 percent fewer application “hangs” than those running Windows XP.
Source (Microsoft)
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Top 10 Crazy laws still in existence (uk)
January 21st, 2008 ·
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store
Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day
In [...]
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AltTabFingertips
January 14th, 2008 ·
What it does
I made a small AHK script I thought you might want to use: AltTab Fingertips. Press a configurable hotkey (F10 by default), and get a menu at the mouse with all the current windows on it. You can exclude processes using the tray menu.
Many thanks to ak_ for creating “menu at cursor” [...]
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