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Monday, March 17, 2008

There’s been a lot of discussion over Internet Explorer 8′s handling of web standards. The main concern is whether or not version 8 should support web standards out of the box, or default to IE7′s less strict web standards behavior. Microsoft has gone as far as to make a decision to support IE7′s less strict web standards by default, only to announce that they were wrong and launched IE8 Beta in strict standards mode.

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Activities: Microsoft’s version of microformats? They’re awfully similar & require no work for the developer. The downside? HTML documents will continue to lack the rich markup that microformats offer. We can continue using microformats to mark up our documents of course, but I wonder if this will stagnate their growth.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Just a tip. If you’re ever using SWFObject to write out your flash files and ExternalInterface to communicate with them, in Internet Explorer (6 & 7), make sure that the ID of your embedded flash file is all lowercase.

Take this basic code for example, used to mute the audio in a flash file from within HTML:

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Here’s a screenshot of what Internet Explorer 7 displays when it can’t find the URL you’re looking for:

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

My cable bill has been a consistent $145 a month and I really think it’s time to scale back. I whipped up a little spreadsheet to see my potential savings over the next 7 months, my time frame for packing up & moving east.

The savings quickly adds up:

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

This is a screenshot of an email that ebay.com sends you when a potential buyer has a question about an auction.

Can YOU find the actual question? Now picture a few auctions with a couple of questions each. The search for ebays hidden question is tantamount to an extremely not fun game of Operation.

I think this reflects how ebay has gone from the early days of casual sellers (when the real bargains could be found) to a fully automated money making machine. This email is just the tip of the iceburg. Shame on them and the unfriendly web they weave.

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Friday, September 14, 2007

There seems to be a hot topic afloat regarding a leaked Google video showing their plans to offer “activity streams“. Basically, RSS that shows what your friends are doing, ala Facebook news feeds (which I must say, I haven’t used for myself). It sounds very similar to shared Google items, a Google Reader feature I absolutely love, but I assume it will be more of a central location for all shared Google activity.

This brings to mind SuprGlu – a site I started using awhile back, where you create an account & paste in the RSS feeds of whatever you’d like. I gave it the RSS feeds of my sites (including comments), my Flickr account, Delicious, Last.fm & google reader shared items – resulting in a single site of (most of) my online activity:

http://soupenvy.suprglu.com/

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Danny Devito was on last nights Letterman. I always knew he was short, but my god is he short. So much so, that I needed an exact measurement.

As we all would do in this situation, I posed the question to google. To my amazement not only did I find what I was looking for, but my question was answered right in the first search result:

“Danny Devito — Height 5′, according to http://imdb.com/”