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Pop-up blocker in Firefox
I’ve heard that Firefox’s pop-up blocker could be worked around, and W3 Schools have decided to do it. Bloody annoying…. Time to use an alternative? Update: Wait – it has stopped happening…?
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Browser testing machine is working!
I bought an old celeron on the most excellent trade me and tried the experiment again… so far so good – IE 3, 5, 5.5 and 6 all playing together. I’m a little worried about IE 4 – but I will check out its error message tomorrow.
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World Bank Madness
Some mornings you wake up and the world is even madder than it was the previous day. Yesterday I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news that Paul Wolfowitz had been nominated to head the World Bank. An attempt by the Bush administration to further dominate weak developing countries? If I was from Mars…
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Browser testing part two
Yes, Windows 2000 runs OK on a Pentium 166, but don’t try patching it with service pack 4 or 6 – that will srew it. ‘Page down’ on a website took about 10 seconds…. Back to the drawing board!
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Browser testing
I’m setting up a browser testing machine on an old Pentium 166 (with a respectable 64 meg of RAM). Incredibly, I’ve managed to install Windows 2000 on it, and it seems to run quite well. In terms of browsers, I initially went straight to evolt.org’s browser archive, but then I discovered an article about running…
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WOMAD in Taranaki
Off to the WOMAD festival this weekend. Another three days of music, portaloos and ‘festival people’. No tenting this time – we’re staying on a Marae. Can’t wait!
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Marlborough Food and Wine Festival
Forgot to mention that I went down to the Marlborough Food and Wine Festival the other weekend. Drank too much wine and had the mooother of all hangovers the next day, but it was worth it to catch up with some great friends and sample some fine wine. Tash was photographed for the local paper…
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Wellington Web Standards Group
Attended the Web Standards Group meeting on Thursday. The speakers (John Allsopp, Jonathan Mosen and Russ Weakley) were great, and it was fascinating to watch Jonathan, who is blind, surf the web using a speech reader. Accessibility was no longer an academic issue – seeing it used was an accessible-design affirming moment!