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Monday, 10 March 2008
Good news for standards based developers. Microsoft have now decided that IE8 will comply with web standards by default.
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Monday, 21 January 2008
So says the slogan on most of the product pages at Getprice, the Aussie online comparison shopping resource. Their contact page event tells us that:
“Our online merchants display their products with us so that you don’t need to visit various sites to compare and price what you need. Getprice does this for you making shopping easier, cheaper, and safer than ever before.”
Which is all very nice, except that if their software is too dumb or their online merchants deliberately or accidentally pollute the data they supply to Getprice, then it doesn’t make that service very “safe” or “easier”, does it? Take this example, for instance:
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Saturday, 8 September 2007
The SMH Blog reports on Westpac’s continuing problems:
“Thousands of Westpac customers went without their internet banking and online broking services for most of yesterday following a website glitch which, as of this morning, has still not been completely fixed.”
Q: Is this the same bank known for its crippled pages and worst website presentation?
A: Yes.
Q: Is this the same bank which has done a major visual “makeover” but then forgot to fix their usability and accessibility flaws?
A: Yes.
Q: If you put lipstick on a pig, is it still a pig?
A: Yes.
My second candidate for the web monkeys of the year award.
Friday, 16 March 2007
On the web, it’s standard practice to have your logo a clickable link which takes the visitor to your home page. Although I have seen the occasional business website which doesn’t allow you to click on the logo, I haven’t seen any that break the website when the logo is clickable.
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Is this the future of web debugging? I think so.
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