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WebDD: Microsoft’s Reality Distortion Field is Fully Functional
A designer? Originally uploaded by writerus drivelus. Last Saturday I went to the WebDD conference at Microsoft Campus, Reading. Following my standard conference procedure, I checked in, obtained...
View ArticleWhy “left: -9999px;” is Better For Accessibility Than “display: none;”
Update: Thierry Koblentz points out in the comments that either technique may be appropriate, depending on circumstances. I mention this in the last paragraph, but just to be clear, there should have...
View ArticleBandwidth? Yeah, whatever…
Well, that’s nice. The Council’s electoral registration form came through the door today, so I visited the web site to indicate that everything’s the same. I now have the confirmation email. Definition...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Microsoft Just Use HTTP Like Everybody Else?
A few moments ago I was following a link from Google to Raymond Chen’s excellent MSDN blog The Old New Thing. As has happened to me before, I ended up getting redirected to an ASP.NET error page at a...
View ArticleMore On ASP.NET’s Broken Error Handling
I’ve looked a bit more into the way ASP.NET handles HTTP errors, and frankly it now seems not just irritating, but downright bizarre. By the way, although the original post was about a 5xx series...
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Urgent Update of Internet Explorer – Install It Now
Given that I’m so prone to criticising Microsoft, I have to give them credit for moving so rapidly to provide a patch for the recently discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer. One little niggle:...
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New Theme: GiltEdge 0.1 alpha
At long last, I’ve got around to developing a new theme for the site. Given the gold-and-lead colour scheme, and the dire financial straits the World currently finds itself in, the name GiltEdge seemed...
View ArticleXHTML 2 Canned…
…not many dead. In other news: Phlogiston “seemed like a good idea at the time”; Doubt cast on Ussher chronology; Cold Fusion – yeah, right. Next, the Shipping Forecast.
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BBC News Redesign: Sneak Preview
Earlier on I received an email inviting me to take part in a survey on the forthcoming redesign of the BBC News web site. This allowed me to see a number of pages from the live site presented in the...
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Antisocial Networking
For some background to the Twitter-related brouhaha that led to this post, read Jack of Kent’s The Integrity and Honesty of @gillianmckeith. So, @gillianmckeith tweets that @bengoldacre‘s Bad Science...
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