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Opera Web Browser 9.6 Released
Blog I also like the "Speed Dial" feature, having nine of my most frequently visited web pages easily available and prominently displayed. This version is noticeably faster loading pages, which is a pretty good trick because Opera was already very fast.
[October 9, 2008, 8:54]
Two Pre-Release Browsers - Firefox 3.0RC1 and Opera 9.5 beta 2
Blog The move to combine the browser address bar and web search has been underway for some time; what Opera has done now is extend that to include searching the content of web pages you have previously visited for keywords you type in the address bar.
[May 20, 2008, 13:20]
The Internet Is Doomed (& I feel Fine)
Blog Let’s say, for argument sake, that the average Web site has 100 pages of content. That would mean there are 171,000,000 sites x 100 pages content average = 17,100,000,000 or 17 billion Web pages of content out there.
[June 29, 2008, 14:01]
Web site personalisation - or information intrusion?
Blog CleverSet would of course have us accept the benefits of product recommendations, direct email campaigns, recommendation-driven search results pages, personalised presentation and customised content - they say that recommendations appear on the...
[January 29, 2008, 13:42]
Wednesday
Blog Google ranks Web pages by their content and by how many different sites point to them: likewise, influential online people can be spotted by finding out how many replies their postings in forums generate, how many times their names are mentioned...
[November 1, 2002, 17:42]
JavaScript - a Flash competitor?
Blog It's also not very useful to keep copies of the translated code, given the huge number of different pages a web user will visit and the relative rarity of revisits to unchanged pages. That combines the immediacy of interpretation and some of the...
[August 24, 2008, 15:57]
The Future for Rich Internet Applications
Blog With the fast start up time of a traditional web application, the user does not need to start their browser to navigate the pages of the site and several are already in Beta form such as San Dimas, the codename for EffectiveUI’s RIA version of eBay.
[October 18, 2007, 11:16]
Ideal Mathematics Test Practices: Making Online Quizzes with Math Symbols
Blog It provides a much needed foundation for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages. The better approach so far is made possible through Flash-based QuizCreator with equation editor feature, which creates equations in Flash mathematics...
[May 6, 2008, 11:25]
The Twitter Book: worth a quick look if you're hooked
Blog There's some good help pages with useful web sites listed such as http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter which is a forum where people discuss Twitter issues. As well as the stats to show the “thousands” of per cent growth Twitter has seen at various...
[May 29, 2009, 1:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Console myself with a quick spin around a few Web pages discussing new satellite data broadcasting systems - it seems that by the end of the century there'll be hundreds of the little darlings up there giving us tons of bandwidth wherever we might...
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
Google Chrome - an open source browser, and more...
Blog It also has Gears, allowing web apps to work offline, plus multiple innovations in garbage collection, security and user interfaces - including a nine-pane automated favourites page, where the browser keeps your most-visited pages front and centre.
[September 1, 2008, 18:44]
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog As I rifled through the reams of pages on best practices for development I thought, hang on - they have to be kidding, no web for mobile? Then, after doing some digging around in the FAQ department of the online Safari support pages I noticed that...
[March 25, 2008, 8:38]
SharePoint 2010
Blog Then there are the UI changes, which may make updating pages an issue. The new SharePoint UI is based on the Office 2010 look-and-feel, and brings the Office ribbon into SharePoint pages. The most obvious change is the name - SharePoint is no...
[October 22, 2009, 21:53]
When will they ever learn?
Blog Yippee, now they have course pages with lists of Office documents.actually, that's probably the case amongst some of the so-called best too! There are still glossy booklets and DVDs issued with pages of excellence here and there but those with a...
[December 1, 2008, 7:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But now the Scientologists are using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to say that this information contains copyrighted and trademarked material and the offending pages should be removed from the Net forthwith.
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
Size matters - or choose your phone according to your pocket
Blog At 4.3 diagonal inches it is easily capable of displaying Web pages, and the accelerometer lets you switch between wide and tall formats readily. Web pages can become pinched, calendar views cramped. I’ve just posted a First Take story on the HTC HD2.
[November 9, 2009, 11:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Delighted to find before the press conference that the company has set up the Web pages for the new PDA, and although it hasn't linked them in they're easy to find by poking around. Wonderful, this Web stuff!
[June 21, 1997, 9:00]
How Opera is better than Chrome?
Blog Opera takes less time in loading web pages than chrome. I am using 56k connection and my reason for choosing opera as my default browser are: User interface of Opera is user-friendly than chrome. Opera looks visually appealing.
[January 19, 2009, 7:48]
Oops-ubuntu!
Blog As you can see, no fonts whatsoever on web pages in Firefox, just lines. I have had to abandon yesterday's plan to remove unwanted fonts and add core web fonts to /usr/share/fonts/ in Ubuntu Karmic Koala.
[November 10, 2009, 13:03]
The real time web?
Blog Over on John Battelle's Searchblog, there's an interesting post on what might happen when search catches up with the realtime web - when you can ask not just what's on the Web in the static pages, but what people are doing right now He thinks it...
[December 5, 2008, 11:10]
