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Archive for February, 2007

Me, a Microsoft-basher?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I received the following email yesterday: I had never really considered you a hardcore Microsoft-basher, but reading your blog lately (and the sidebar links) have convinced me otherwise. – Naive Stephen I was taken aback at first, but after reviewing my recent publications and and a little soul searching, I decided there was some truth [...]

Select Element Z-index Ignored by IE 6 – Workaround

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

IE 6 will continue to be a problem for web developers for a while longer. Statistics for this site show that even though IE 7 has been out for several months, 30% of my visitors still use IE6. IE 7 is climbing fast (currently at 22%), but still has a ways to go before IE [...]

After a 3 Day Weekend

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Technorati Tags: Akismet, comment spam

Safari Getting Closer

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Following up on this post… Andrew Dupont mentions some of the improvements to the next version of Apple’s Safari web browser rapidly approaching release. Meanwhile, the Webkit development team is focusing on stabilization. Technorati Tags: Safari, Webkit, Apple, Leopard

Walmart Hates Firefox Users?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Walmart has launched it’s movie download site, and labeled it Beta. How “Web 2.0″ of them. Apparently Walmart doesn’t like Firefox users. Here it is in Firefox 2.0, Windows XP: …and here it is in IE7, Windows XP: …and in Safari 2.0.4, Apple 10.4.8: Technorati Tags: Walmart, mediadownloads.walmart.com, Firefox