http://www.waterfallweb.net website design, development, marketing and management Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:42:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There has been quite a lot said recently about Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). Should it default to "standards mode"? Or default to "IE7 mode"? But Joel on Software has put things into perspective: Neither side is right, and neither side is wrong. Because there is really no right answer ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2008/03/no-right-answers-for-ie8/ If you're anything like me, you receive a lot of email. Some days I feel like the only thing I've done all day is deal with email! Given the amount of other things that must be done in business, it's easy to just put it in the "too hard basket" ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2008/01/dont-let-email-sit-in-your-inbox-unpunished/ Announced recently was the end of the production line for Netscape Navigator. I haven't used it in years, but I do remember how much better Netscape 3 was than IE3. Netscape probably started it's decline when IE4 was released - a far superior browser at the time. Netscape never really recovered, nor reinvented themselves to create a case ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2008/01/the-death-of-netscape/ Many years ago the Web Standards Project (or WASP) fought the fine fight to pressure browser manufacturers into complying with some sort of standard version of HTML. Prior to that we almost had to build separate sites for Netscape and Internet Explorer - it was horrible. We have come so far ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/11/the-email-standard-project/ There has been a lot of talk lately (and rightly so) about the disadvantages of using captcha to stop comment spam. I'm not a big fan. They're often hard to read even for someone with reasonably normal vision. "Is that a zero or the letter O?" "Upper case C or lower case c?" Others ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/10/using-radio-buttons-to-combat-form-spam/ I was at a meeting recently where a teacher gave a presentation about some stuff the school was involved in. And, of course, she used Powerpoint. Very badly. I'm sure you have all seen it. Several paragraphs of text per slide. Cheesy animations (and different animations for each block of text). The ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/10/really-bad-powerpoint/ Well, day one of Web Directions South 07 is over. And they announced that they would be giving away some prizes to anyone who blogged about it overnight. I've had a few beers and am not in the right frame of mind to write anything deep and meaningful - I'm just ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/09/a-blatent-grab-at-a-freebie/ Just a quick follow up to a previous post - the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the lawsuit has been dropped. I think this is the most important lesson: "Ironically, the negative word of mouth and worldwide media coverage criticising 2Clix for trying to silence its critics seems to have damaged the ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/09/2clix-lawsuit-dropped/ Roger Johansson recently posted a bit of a rant about how much he hates HTML email. He also wrote how if anyone thinks otherwise they're weird/wrong/stupid: "Some people even like receiving HTML email." (I have replaced his italics with my bold.) Okay, so I'm weird, wrong and stupid. But the thing that ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/09/we-just-have-to-work-with-what-we-have/ The Sydney Morning Herald reports that software maker 2Clix is suing community site Whirlpool for comments posted on its forum. This could set a nasty precedent. Does that mean that nobody will be allowed to criticise anything online for fear of getting sued? Do we have follow America's lead in getting lawyers ... http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2007/09/firm-sues-forum-to-silence-critics/