38one.com

I’d just spent the past half hour writing a post (in that browser, IE) about this site design and it’s colour scheme, the service I provide to myself as my own client, and another site – which happens to crash IE for some reason- that was inspiring the post. I knew this before I revisited for another look, so with … view full post

Mozilla downloads have surged

Via mozillaZine:

“Wired News is reporting that Mozilla downloads have surged following advice from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to avoid Internet Explorer for security reasons. Download numbers approximately doubled in the days following the US-CERT recommendation, which was

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Firefox on the rise

I’m seeing an increasing number of web sites and individuals advocating the switch from Internet Explorer to an alternative, modern and more secure web browser – primarily Firefox.

Time to Dump Internet Explorer – SecurityFocus
Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer – Lockergnome
Three reasons to switch web browsers today – Joel on Software
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Firebird becomes Firefox

The Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday the immediate availability of a new preview release of its next generation web browser: Mozilla Firefox – … view full post

Evangelism update

It’s time I updated my evangelism project page – Cell C have redesigned their site and it appears to be quite comfortable in all modern browsers, while Standard Bank Internet Banking now works in Gecko-based browsers (Mozilla, Netscape, etc) too – possibly because I upgraded to … view full post

User agent virus

A comment on /. in response to their poll “The Browser I use Most Often…”:

you know, it’s just occured to me that some enterprising virus coder could actually do the world a favour by writing a virus that causes IE running under Windows to chane it’s agent string to Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari,

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Evangelist ‘hall of shame’

Deon at heunis.com sent me an SMS this afternoon having read my hall of shame – a list of local websites that have chosen to adopt and support a mindset older than your granny’s granny’s granny. His addition to the list is computicket.com. I had mentioned my problems with the site … view full post

Version 4.x browsers are 5 years old

Their manufacturers no longer support them. Some new websites still choose to, like this one. How backward. They maintain three seperate style sheets instead of one single, standard, valid stylesheet – I only noticed this because I was served a “neither IE nor Navigator” non-existant one. How cute the way they comment in their … view full post

Computicket.com blocked in Mozilla

Unlike the new Edgars website (I ranted about it here), if you visit Computicket’s website in Mozilla you’re not excluded from viewing the site. But you do end up at their test web site. My first thought was that they’d redesigned again and were experimenting with IE-specific CSS layouts, but … view full post

Computers suck

This is my third attempt at an update post. The first one I started about two hours ago. Internet Explorer crashed. Not explaining why I was using IE in the first place.
The second one I started an hour ago, in Mozilla. It too crashed after warning me I didn’t have a plugin. Not defending the best browser on Earth.

Computers suck.