IE6 in Corporates

PPK’s State of the Browser – IE Edition mentions one reason why IE6 will probably stay on for a while. Now why do I expect IE6 to stick around while IE7 goes down? The answer is simple: Intranets… many office workers will continue to be condemned to IE6. At work, that is. It’s quite likely that on their private computer at home they run another browser — IE7 or 8, Firefox, or maybe one of the smaller ones. ...

The Bing effect

This graph is the number of referrals Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, sent to my site over the last few days. Looks like the hype is dying out. Though Bing did leapfrog Yahoo briefly, that lasted just one day.

Round buttons with Python Image Library

After much hunting, I finally settled on Hedger Wang’s simple round CSS links as the most acceptable cross-browser round button implementation. The minified CSS is about 2.5KB, and the syntax is very simple. To make an input button into a round button, just wrap it within a <span class="button">: <span class="button"><input type="submit"></span> … and it’s just as easy to convert a link into a rounded button: <a class="button" href=”/”><span>Home</span></a> It works by using a transparent PNG / GIF that looks like this: ...