November 4th, 2010
Ok, cards on the table: I’m not a fan of Microsoft. I don’t think this is secret information. But just in case you’re new to this blog: Exhibit A, Exhibit B and Exhibit C. Don’t get me wrong. Not everything Microsoft has ever done has been evil-personified in software form. I’m told the Xbox is alright. I have [...]
September 30th, 2010
Had a total of four meetings on Monday. To suggest I was in need of a drink by the time I got home doesn’t begin to describe it. Whilst each meeting was for a different reason, there was one common theme running through them all: everybody I spoke to about something technical had been led [...]
January 20th, 2010
So, as you may or may not have heard, Google’s fallen out with China: more specifically the Chinese government, which may or may not (strangely both sides disagree on this one) have been hacking into Google Mail/GMail accounts of Chinese dissidents. Well, apparently, the hacking was made possible because of a problem with Internet Explorer. [...]
September 2nd, 2008
So, today’s big news was that – after years of rumours – Google has launched it’s own web browser, Google Chrome (Windows only at the moment – grrr!). At first glance there are some extremely interesting ideas in Chrome; it’s a ground-up reworking of how a web browser should be, created to work well with [...]
August 3rd, 2008
As a web designer, it’s my job to ensure that the sites I design and build, work on as wide a variety of web browsers as possible. And that includes Internet Explorer 6 which, depending on which version of user statistics you believe, is still used by 25 per cent or so of web users. [...]