Category: Microsoft
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Spotify to music subscribers: drop dead
Since at least 2010, subscribers to Spotify’s paid music service have asked the company to include the ability to sort playlists alphabetically in the desktop player. It’s the sort of drop-dead obvious feature that should…
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Leo Laporte interviews JZ
IN EPISODE 63 of Triangulation, Leo Laporte, a gracious and knowledgeable podcaster/broadcaster straight outta Petaluma, CA, interviews Your Humble Narrator about web standards history, responsive web design, content first, the state of standards in a…
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Awesome web apps in 10k or less
The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…
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See also: Internet Explorer usage falls below 50%.
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IE9 preview
Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames? In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius,…
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Web standards secret sauce
Firefox and Opera are great browsers that have greatly advanced the cause of web standards, but because they are choices in a space where most people don’t make choices, their power to convert is necessarily…
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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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A bug in Google Chrome
For web standards and web content, we once again live in interesting times. Welcome, Chrome!
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Microsoft reverses version targeting default
IE8’s version targeting will now work the same way other browsers work, i.e. advanced standards support will be on by default. Some people will say Microsoft caved; others, that they listened to public opinion; some…
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Version targeting, take two
In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. I argue that the default seems…
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In defense of version targeting
We knew when we published this issue of A List Apart that it would light a match to the gaseous underbelly of standards-based web design, but we thought more than a handful of readers would…
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Re: CSS Unworking Group
Proposing change when the change makes sense is good. Proposing change because you are disappointed and frustrated isn’t good enough.
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The Joy of Technology
Good morning. Twitter, Facebook, iLike, and Word have imploded. M’mm, that’s good coffee!
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The King of Web Standards
A new article in Business Week might help designers who aren’t named Jeffrey Zeldman sell web standards to their bosses or clients.
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What Apple copied from Microsoft
Apple has learned the marketing psychology lesson that Microsoft got first. For many consumers, convenience is of greater value than choice. A platform built of parts that work together seamlessly beats a self-curated collection of…