Archive for March, 2006



Ahh - what a way to start a Sunday! As most of my home/office is controlled by Internet time, and the standard rule for determining the end of DST in Australia is that the clocks go back 1 hour on the last Sunday of March, today caused a little confusion for me. On waking [...]

Working with XHTML is all very commendable, but if the default (read wrong) MIME type is sent to the UA then you are still only sending HTML documents out to browserland. If this is the case you may as well work with the HTML doctype. So how do you send the correct MIME type for [...]

Well it looks like the next release of IE7 beta will have addressed many of the bugs, issues and foibles of the IE7 public preview beta. The next release will be made available at the Mix 06 conference, and will be further released through MSDN membership following the conference. Andy Clarke has had a [...]

This is a question that is asked by all levels of web developer at some time or another, and the answers vary widely depending on who you ask. Die hards from each of the Win, Mac or *nix camps will all have their favourites. Each OS version will have various browsers attached to them. The [...]

Web Patterns

The use of web patterns and web semantics is an everyday occurance, but very little is documented and formallised about the structure and classification of the patterns being used. In a effort to change this situation, and bring web development in line with similar development professions (namely architecture and software development), John Allsopp has created [...]