June 2008 Archives

The Barton Mawer site runs well in all latest versions of the most used browsers. But that overhaul made me realize its not worth spending that much time adding Internet Explorer 6 hacks in order to support this in 2006 superseded browser version.

For some reason many web developers still think its good to support the browser, and yes if you loose customers and therefore sales... I agree there!!, but this is also the evil, and that’s why there are still IE6 users out there. Dunno the real percentage but I guess its still around 10-20 percent.

Ok ok.. it feels good maybe to get a hack to work and bypass dodgy application behavior.. but c'mon IE7 has been here for two years, and IE8 is on its way... besides the security issue its time to upgrade, and in this case being a informative website it wont harm that much.

And if you are not able to comply with the Microsoft Genuine Validation tool (for whateva reason lol) in order to get the IE7 update, leave me a note and I point you to hack that.. lol its waaaaaay easier :)

*-- above = cut out and slightly modified post from Mawer v2.0 -- this deserves its own post --*

Join the movement on: SaveTheDevelopers.org

Ive done a major overhaul to bartonmawer.com, the template got severely reconstructed.
Besides the graphic update its, now its possible to use both side bars on demand, and Ive embedded "user1" (see the "no ie6 banner" position) and "user2" in the main section assignable through the back-end, plus the navigation bar and the sponsorbar are customizable too through the CMS.

*-- cut no ie6 support - new post here: duijnunder.com/blog/coding/no_more_ie6_sup

Ive submitted a mockup for a new website for qube recruitment agency here in Sydney. Hopefully they like it and I get the job.
I show little previews first, will do big ones later when all comes through.

Front/intro page:

Contact page:

Lets hope they like it :)

Watch Euro Cup 2008 live online via:
freelivevoetbal.nl

Good list of different types of programs to use and languages/channels to choose from per game.
Also choose the application to view it with. I was already using SobCast and TVU player, but there are couple more to choose from.

YesTV SobCast stream did the NED1 broadcast for the already legendary NETHERLANDS vs ITALY game, so I could enjoy the game complete with dutch commentary (Frank Snoeks - Tom Egberts - Johan Cruijff etc) and vibe! :) what a cracker of a game!!