The mozillaZine Forums are citing a 12th or 14th of June release for Firefox 0.9…
Kevin Gerich has also recently revealed that this new build will include a new default theme. He also promises to post some insights into the making of this new theme in the coming days. Should be a good read.
Every good web project specification document includes a list of target browsers and platforms. It’s something that I’ve been reviewing here at Mirashade, and I’m interested to know what browsers and platforms like minded developers are ‘developing’ for.
Where possible we’re refraining from developing ‘for’ Internet Explorer versions previous to 6, although we do ensure that our sites don’t become totally unusable in these.
For our most recent project we have devised the following list:
PC:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Netscape Navigator 7.1
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Mac:
Netscape Navigator 7.1
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Safari 1.2
How does this compare to your browser devlopment list? Let me know…
Tuesday last week I took delivery of a new PC. A Dell Dimension 4600… blah blah blah.
Anyhow… what I discovered when I started the PC up was quite a huge amount of pre-installed junk that I really did not want. So my first hour of ownership was spent uninstalling various applications; AOL, MSN Explorer, BT Yahoo Anytime, Tiscali 10.0, McAfee Security Centre trial, Paint Shop Pro trial, Photo Album 5 trial, Dell Experience… etc. Groan!
I just wish Dell had the option online to specify ‘please do not pre-install any junk’ on my PC.
Are Dell the only culprits? Or are other manufacturers taking the same route…?
Following the acquisition of Blogger in 2003 by Google, Blogger has relaunched with a rich new feature set and a very chic new CSS driven look.
If you’re looking to set up a blog then I’d say you couldn’t go far wrong with Blogger, although of course if you have access to MySQL on a Unix box I’d have to suggest Textpattern. ;)
Well, I’ve been a little out of the loop for the past week or so. I’m ‘on holiday’ at home until the end of this week with my ‘family’. :)
However; this morning after feeding the milk monster I found some time to browse some blogs and do a little catching up. I happened across a couple of nice items which I present here for you to peruse.
Processing is a programming language designed for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It seems that you can pretty much use it for whatever you want and there are some great examples on the Processing site of just what can be done with it. I’m sure this would interest many Flash developers as the programming fundamentals sound pretty similar.
Mike Chambers has put together a nice standalone Flash Application for displaying the most recent posts to the Macromedia XML News Aggregator. It’s called MXNA Feed Scroller (catchy!) and uses the MXNA web service API to populate itself. You can download the source code and tinker with it to your hearts content. Nice work!
Right, better go. I think I can hear the milk monster waking.
