Happy birthday WWW - 20 years old!
The modern day internet, better known as the "World Wide Web", has entered into its twenties today. Its inception dates back to 13 March 1989, when a computer scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at CERN Laboratory, presented a paper containing means and methods by which particles physics scientists could easily share and find out essential electronics documents.Full story here
IE will come with an 'OFF' switch in Windows 7
MICROSOFT said today that a control panel in its next-generation computer operating system will let users shut off Internet Explorer 8 and other built-in programs. Full story here
IE6 - time to die
The clamour of noise on the interweb for IE6 to (dis)gracefully hurry off to the retirement home is growing by the week (links below). PC World have even listed it (no. 8 in the hall of shame) among the 25 Worst Tech Products of All-Time. It's way past time to drop support for Internet Explorer 6. At SkyRocket we grudgingly still test for IE6 but agree with others that our “official” stance is not to support it and we are actively educating our customers to at least upgrade to IE7 or their IE6 users, still stuck in the last millennium, will not be getting the full interaction & feature-set that folks on modern-generation browsers have.1. Time to drop IE62. The Final Word on IE63. Twitter Twits about IE6 hatred
Creating animated Gifs in Photoshop CS3
Now ImageReady has been discontinued in CS3 the ability to make animated GIFs has been built into Photoshop instead. Good tutorial on how to do this here...
Google Insights for Search (beta)
Been having a play with the new Insights for Search tool from Google (currently still in beta) and find it very interesting and useful - if you're into nerdy style SEO trendspotting ... :/
BG Patterns
Useful website to create & download tiled patterned backgrounds. Plenty of configuration options and lots of paisley :)
Web Safe Area - resource
Useful resource detailing available or 'safe' screen real estate on various OS (Win XP/Vista and Mac OSX) and also different standard browser chrome.
