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Exploring the web with Pivot
Not everyday do we see interesting new views of the web. I just saw the following video, and thought it was an interesting concept. Microsoft Live Labs presents their Pivot. You can check out their site, Pivot, and try to download the application (I didn’t have any luck).
Help: IE7 won’t load my JSON but IE8 will – Using a JSON Validator
I just ran into this issue, and found surprisingly little documentation. My JSON request wasn’t returning. I was using the jQuery “getJSON” method to send the request out. Nothing was coming back.
Help: How do I announce a new website?
We launch websites every month or two for clients, and make many website updates. What are the best ways to tell the “internet” that your site is up, and ready to be checked out? I’m going to focus on the free options, as I find anything that costs money sketchy (especially with regard to listing a site).
We can divide this into a few categories:
- Search Engines
- Social Networking
- Peer Sites
- News Aggregators
The Death Blow to IE6?
Web developers are constantly fighting the IE6 battle.
We don’t want to support it, but all too often IE6 represents 10% of our client’s visitors — and you can’t tell a client they can’t talk to 10% of their visitors. If it’s an ecommerce site that could be a 10% decrease in sales.
Recently many large sites have announced the looming demise of Internet Explorer 6. Site’s such as Google Docs, Google Sites, YouTube (surprise, a Google company), and many others. Rumors are spreading this will include Gmail, Google Calendar, and other Google products too (maybe the sacred Google Search).
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IE6: Graphical Illustration of Problems with CSS
Posted on flickr, css mess, is one artist’s (atzu) homage to the problems all web developers face in IE6. As the creator says:
By the way, I wanted to thank all these major sites as Youtube, Facebook, Google that are not supporting Internet Explorer 6 anymore.
– atzu
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WordPress: How to get the Slug of the page
When working with WordPress templates, we frequently find ourselves trying to get certain information about a page. It bothers me how “non” object orientated page information is in WordPress, but those are the hurdles you need to get over as a web developer.
Today I wanted to get the “Slug” (or the last part of a Permalink for a page). › Continue reading
Adobe Responds: Flash isn’t Open Source, but we’re trying
A few days ago I had posted Apple, Adobe, Flash, iPhone, iPad and Open Source with reference to a debate on various blogs. The debate is whether Flash will ever go open source, should they, and what it means to the Apple / iPhone / iPad contingent.
Adobe came back with the blog post Following the open trail, by Dave McAllister. › Continue reading
Apple’s iPad / iPhone HTML5 Bet: HTML5 Drawing App Proves Capabilities
Recently I’ve been posting on HTML5 versus Flash. Many people who are not familiar with HTML5 may not know exactly the amount of power that has been provided with the new spec. HTML 4 was nice, and a big upgrade, but I believe HTML 5 will be an even larger upgrade over HTML4.
The reason we are talking about HTML5, is Apple seems to be placing their bets on it. Apple continues to refuse to have Flash running on their controlled devices (iPhone, iPad, etc) and seems to be pushing for HTML5 to take over.
We are slowly having to rethink the capabilities of the “HTML” platform that we have grown to know over the past 15 years. › Continue reading
Help: I Can’t log into Google AdSense
Yesterday I went to login to my Google Adsense account and found myself in an infinite loop of “Click here to login”, then “Sign up” as the only option. There were no options to actually login. This was very frustrating.
Normally I’m used to logging in with:
https://www.google.com/adsense/
This would usually redirect me to the site, and all would be fine. Now when I go there, all I see is a “Sign up now” button. If I click on “Sign up now”, there is a link that says “Already have an account?” and points to the help files for AdSense, which isn’t much help.
After searching around I ran into a forum post at WebmasterWorld.com, Can’t Log-in To AdSense – Asking to Update to Google Account.
There I found an answer from what appeared to be a Google rep:
OK, we think we’ve figured out what’s going on here (and by “we” I mean my friend the engineer).It looks like this issue is only happening to folks who signed up for adsense before we asked everyone to use a google Account. When we migrated everyone over to google Accounts, if you used the same email address for your google Account as for your previous account, you may be experiencing problems with your login screen right now.This also explains why so many WebmasterWorld people are seeing this problem, as you guys tend to be some of our most experienced adsense publishers.We’re still working on correcting the issue, but I’ll get back to you as soon as we’ve got something in place. In the meantime, some publishers experiencing this same issue have reported that they can log in using this URL: https://www.google.com/adsense/login2. Let us know if you’re still having issues logging in using this URL.
Resolution – How To Login
The result, is try logging in using the following URL:
Apple, Adobe, Flash, iPhone, iPad and Open Source
I just saw an interesting blog “Back and Forth” between a few sites:
- Robert Scoble at Scobleizer
- John Gruber at Daring Fireball
- Dave Winer at scripting.com
The conversation revolves around the future of Flash and open standards. › Continue reading
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