03 Feb 2010 at 10:28 by Andy Towler
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 [...]
14 Jan 2010 at 09:22 by Andy Towler
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, you [...]
01 Dec 2009 at 14:35 by Andy Towler
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 [...]
06 Oct 2009 at 18:44 by Andy Towler
When designing and building websites, any professional will tell you that you should test in as many browsers as possible. In the real world, the number you can actually test in may be quite small, depending on your operating system and how many computers you have access to, but you can still set up a [...]
24 Apr 2009 at 18:02 by Andy Towler
I’m a big fan of Firefox, and it’s been my main web browser for as long as I can remember. Partly because it’s pretty good with web standards, and partly because of its huge range of plugins – in particular a plugin called Adblock Plus which stops most banner and Google adverts from showing [...]