fordie’s Blog

Since the arrival of IE7 there have been a number of workarounds developed to enable designers & developers to test their site in IE6 & IE7 on the same machine. However, none of these have been entirely successful; for example the standalone version of IE6 I had installed didn’t work with html conditional comments, so [...]

I like the quick search facility in firefox; the dictionary search is particularly useful. by typing “dict search-term” into the address bar you get a dictionary definition. The definitions used to be provided by dictionary.reference.com but for some reason in the last couple of versions it’s been the Merriam-Webster website. I just don’t think the [...]

IE 7 is finaly out. Do yourself a favour, go to the Microsoft site and download it Today. It’s just so much nicer to use than previous versions and it’s supposed to be more secure too.

Or easier, I’m not sure which! IE7 is due to be released this month. Initially it’ll be available via optional download from the MS website but they are going to push it out through windows update which means that take up is likely to be very quick. I’m not sure if it’s going to break [...]

I spend an awful lot of time on line so I’m always keen to find ways to make it a more productive and enjoyable time. In the past few weeks and days there have been some interesting new versions of some of the major web browsers released, I’ve been playing with them to see how [...]

I spend a lot of time wrestling with CSS working round IE’s broken box model. A lot of this pain could have been avoided, if only I’d remembered about the “doctype switch”. If you don’t know what a box model is, or why IE’s is broken, have a look at this. There are lot’s of [...]

The IE team have Today announced on their blog that IE7 (Seven) will be pushed out to Windows XP users using MS automatic update (contrary to what Chris Wilson told Vitamin). This will happen some time in the fourth quater of this year. I believe this has huge implecations for anyone that develops commercial sites, [...]