The majority of (legit) Windows users may get a shock over the next 24 hours or so as IE7 is rolled out.
How soon until users stuck with IE6 start to get frustrated with ‘broken’ websites?
Will it encourage them to get legit copies of Windows?
Of course not, there are too many alternative browsers out there, notably Firefox (my browser of choice).
Have you seen any sites which break horribly in IE7? Or any particularly good examples of new designs?
bbPress is a fantastic example of how the web should be made.
While there are of course a few (minor) issues, bbPress is still a beta / pre-v1 product (0.72 ‘bix’ in fact), and ‘issues’ may actually be simple matters of preference.
If I was to set up a forum I’d use bbPress. But what to talk about?
I genuinely believe that the oddly (and uncatchily) named Real Time Matrix and/or similar services could significantly affect online publishing.
While aggregation and blog-search aren’t new, services like this could change the dynamics of the blogosphere – the big guys might find themselves getting less traffic as the smaller sites get more attention, and hopefully there will be less of the echoing effect recently discussed.
There could also be negative effects – the more underhanded blogs could try and cheat the system, in much the same way as keyword spamming affected early search engines.
What else could change? What else do we want/need?
It has occured to me that RSS (etc) readers should allow the user to refresh the post content.
This would mean that if the post is updated, which many often are, those edits would be visible from within the feed reader.
Better: get the reader to check the posts and notify the user if the content has changed.
Even better: allow the user to set a minimum-change threshold, so that if the edit made was for example simply correcting spelling they wouldn’t be notified. But if the update was adding new information then it could trigger.
If anyone knows whether this has already been done, please lmk so I can be suitably ashamed for my complete lack of research.
(Please accept my apologies for the rambling ‘style’ of this post)
I, like a lot of people, get a lot of spam emails.
I get a lot of these via a catch-all, but I’m now turning that off. Should I bounce or just ignore those messages?
I’d like to think that the spammers would be put off by emails bounced back to them, but think I have to accept that they probably won’t even get the bounces, so I’d just be creating a little more pointless internet traffic.
Perhaps the ‘email tax‘ suggestions should be adapted to only make people pay for bounced emails?
I have been bouncing an idea around my head (and off a couple of other people’s) and would like to open it up to your thoughts, reactions and suggestions.
Although I drive very little (I work at home), I see a lot of bad driving. A lot of the time it’s simply inconsiderate, sometimes it’s downright rude, other times it’s downright dangerous.
I have also seen many vehicles in dangerous physical conditions, and sometimes with illegal modifications.
Instead of whinging to the gf, I figured it would be much more useful to make a note of these things.
Making these notes could be useful in discovering who is to blame, and what could be done to prevent the problems in the future.
Some of you may be thinking ‘Goody Two-Shoes‘ etc, but there are too many people who complain about something and then do nothing to make it better. (Think Honda advert – Hate Something, Change Something, Make Something Betterrrr!)
The features I’ve considered for the site include:
All Web2.0′ified. All written in swanky OO PHP etc etc.
It would be anonymous, but limited to one report per Reg per IP per day. (Or something)
So, what are your reactions? Would you be concerned (for me) about litigation over slander etc? Would you submit reports? Would the police (or other authorities) be interested?
I have pre-launched my first proper theme, Paper Cut.
Why ‘pre-launch’? Because it’s not quite finished and I wanted some comments from you all to help improve it.
I really would like to hear any thoughts you have, so don’t be shy!
Update: As reported by the BBC:
“US politicians have rejected attempts to enshrine the principle of net neutrality in legislation.”
Google themselves are asking for people to petition against a bill going through US courts:
In the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill, and one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet.
Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody – no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional – has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can’t pay.
Hopefully, the proposal won’t go anywhere, but if it does it threatens to have wide reaching impacts including over this side of the pond.
If it does, then what sort of prices are going to be charged, and how will content be rated. Will individual sites have to lobby to be included in the high priority lanes, will they have to pay?
ISPs are already the winners on the ‘net, shouldn’t we be looking for ways to increase availability to remote users rather than limited those who are already limited?
Simply add the following to the the onFocus attribute of any HTML form input tag.
[code lang="JavaScript"]if (this.value == this.defaultValue) this.value = '';[/code]
this.defaultValue is automatically given the value in the HTML.