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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 [...]

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, you [...]

WordPress Plugin – Hide Update

Sometimes you need to be able to hide the update notices in the WordPress admin pages. One example is when your clients have sufficient admin access to see them, but you don’t want them to try an upgrade and risk destroying the site if something goes wrong. A little knowledge is a dangerous [...]

WordPress 2.9 Released

I woke up rather early this morning to the news that WordPress 2.9 has now passed through all its testing and release candidate cycles, and is now available.

This is great news for all WordPress developers and bloggers, because this release is a “second digit” release and therefore more than just a collection of security tweaks [...]

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 [...]