Internet Explorer 8 is quickly getting rolled out via Windows Update. After getting some time to test it with Multiple IE (for IE6 testing [...ugh]) I just got it installed on my development box.
IE 8 is a great (albeit extremely late) update for web developers, and I’m hoping that it catches on quickly - however, one thing stands out for me, and thats the UI. Having IE7 & 8 on different setups I’m fairly familiar with the new UI, and despite seeming weird and counter-intuitive, I’ve never actually tried to do anything about it - What web developer actually uses IE for anything other than testing, anyway?
To help bring the browser inline with other typical browser designs I did a quick google search and found some useful articles… which I’ve compiled here for convenience. I’m not necessarily trying to make IE look exactly like Firefox, Safari or Chrome, I’m really just aiming at getting most of the interface’s items in the (seemingly) logical place that is shared by most of the other browsers. Read More »
Published:
April 28, 2009
Swine flu seems to be spreading fairly quickly… Gizmodo has posted up some new ways to track the outbreak, including tracking WHO announcements of reported, or potential infections via Google maps (see below for a quick look at Oceania). Theres also the American Center for Disease Control that is also twittering the latest info. Australia seems a bit technologically behind on this one, but the Dep. of Health and Ageing website is getting news updates out fairly regularly.
Overall on the subject of the actual flu though, its early days with this and its not at a pandemic stage at the moment - although Mexico doesn’t seem to be fairing so well…
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map - the source for this is a user called “niman”, who has the summary of “Biomedical Research from Pittsburgh, PA USA” so its likely to be fairly accurate…
Please note the following key/legend for the map:
- Pink markers are suspect
- Purple markers are confirmed or probable
- Deaths lack a dot in marker
- Yellow markers are negative
Thanks to Gizmodo for the tech news - Here and here.
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Published:
April 27, 2009
…not that I think anybody is actually still reading my blog after being off the web for 2 months and not updated for a further 8 or 9 months before that…
But anyway, I’ve brought my blog back online and have a few little projects I’m going to share here over the coming weeks. Not a huge amount of news thats worth posting.
Tech-wise, over the past year or so I’ve made the gradual move over to jQuery from the Prototype framework. Mainly making the move because of the lack of updates across the framework and script.aculo.us. I still have to say that I prefer prototype’s naming convention and other bits and pieces, but in addition to the quiet(er) community, the larger download size and seemingly slower performance, I didn’t see sticking with it as an option.
Apart from javascript changes, I’ve also taken up learning codeigniter in my sparetime which I will be focusing on a fair bit (and will be using for the majority of my web projects).
So thats about it! - I’ll be sure to post some of my new personal web-based projects I’m rolling out over the next few weeks and hopefully including some helpful jQuery code snippets I’ve picked up after the last little while.