Posts from year 2008
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Triggering standards mode in Internet Explorer
Recently Microsoft announced that the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 will introduce a special meta element for triggering standards mode. It will look something like this.
Silverlight and accessibility
About a year ago, a friend asked me how Microsoft planned to achieve world domination with Silverlight. Flash was already installed on practically every computer with a pulse, while Silverlight was yet another browser plugin asking users to install something they neither understood nor particularly wanted.
Airports with delayed flights
Most travelers have at some point experienced that special kind of airport purgatory: staring at a departure board while the word DELAYED quietly destroys whatever hope you had left.
Rest in peace Netscape
I started using NCSA Mosaic back in 1994, when the web was young, strange and mostly populated by academics, geeks and people who thought a grey background was perfectly acceptable design.