IE7 Breaking Competitors?
Thursday, July 28th, 2005Once again, it turns out there is no conspiracy.
Archive for July, 2005
Getting your site ready for IE7
Monday, July 25th, 2005One of the realities of modern web development is that you’ll often have code which behaves differently depending on the web browser you’re using. In the past, this conditional code was usually intended to work around incompatibilities in the CSS standards support for the various browsers, but this may become less of a driver […]
MSN Virtual Earth V1 is Live!
Monday, July 25th, 2005This team moves fast. Virtual Earth is now live. See Dare’s Seattle MovieFinder, which shows how to overlay your own code on top of the maps.
Google vs. Microsoft in China
Thursday, July 21st, 2005The usual suspects in the media are having a field day with the story about Google poaching an MSFT executive to run their Beijing office. Unfortunately, all of the reporting I’ve seen is rather lazy and sensationalist. My first instinct was, “why no such reporting when Li Gong left Sun to head up Beijing operations […]
Bill O’Brien on IE7
Monday, July 18th, 2005Bill is skeptical of IE7, “Historically, developers do no real work on MS products until they’re gold because MS has a habit of changing things at the last minute.” I used to work at an ISV, so I know the feeling. But I think developers will see IE7 as an improvement, and in large part […]