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Virtu Ferries Website Fail

Today, while searching for prices to take my car from Malta to Sicily on the ferry, I was confronted by this gem from a website that time forgot… OK, Virtu Ferries, let me educate you for a moment… I am not using Mozilla. See that little Google logo at the top right? My browser version [...]

Decision time for European Windows users

It’s finally coming. Many months ago, Microsoft lost an argument with the European Commission, the result of which is that it has to give Windows users a choice of which browser to use on their system, instead of just installing Internet Explorer 8 and leaving it up to users to go and find, then install, [...]

Should IE6 be allowed to die?

If you’re a web designer or developer, you’ll be familiar with the plethora of websites set up for no other purpose than to persuade people who still use Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade to a newer version or switch to a non-Microsoft browser. Take a look at IE6nomore, IE6 Update, and there are many more. [...]

Non-standard image/pjpeg mimetype on IE

Here’s a lovely little Internet Explorer “feature” that may have web developers cursing, so I figured I would write a brief post about it in the hope that IE doesn’t waste an hour of your life like it did mine. If you develop in PHP and need to add image upload functionality to a project, [...]

Firefox Turns Five

Yesterday marked five years since the release of version 1.0 of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Five years down the road, its success has surely played an important role in the ongoing development of web design and development tools and technologies, and it has gained significant market share. But how has it changed the way [...]