End of an era

So, Microsoft is stopping development of IE on the Mac...http://tantek.com/log/2003/06.html#L20030613t1318. It has also announced that no new versions of IE will exist before longhorn. This is a very odd situation and the implications of this decision are…

Long day

Just got home after a very long day, was meant to be a short day but...well... This was the day we planned to deploy the big site we've been developing for the past 8 months to its' final hosting environment. Unfortunately, the environment wasn't configured as…

Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

Reading this post from Stephen Sharrock reminded me about something I often overlook, the phenomenally powerful DHTML behaviours which IE supports using HTC files. The WebService behaviour for instance lets you pull information into your client from aribtrary…

My little compression helper...improved version

I posted my compression helper class before and realised almost instantly that it suffered from 'legacy lag' - so it'd been changed so much over the months that it was really bad! Anyway, presented below is a modified version of that class (which I've also…

Right...gonna get back to this...and a request for assistance!

As I've been posting a bit recently,I've been having some problems with my DNS (entirely of my own making I should point out). Anyway, so these DNS problems have led me to do a bit of thinking about this here site - conclusion, I've been very lazy about…