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Quickies with Internet Explorer 8

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Col­league in web crime, delic8genius, has craf­ted 3 fine 3 minute videos for web developers:
Screen­cast: IE8 WebSlices in 3 mni­utes
Screen­cast: IE8 Accel­er­at­ors in 3 minutes
Screen­cast: IE8 Visual Search Pro­viders with sug­ges­tions in 3 minutes
Go have a squiz. It will only take 9 minutes.

Silverlight, Azure go to the Mardi Gras

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Fel­low Aus­tralian DPE-ers, Chris Bright, Michael Kordahi and Greg Wil­lis have been busy work­ing on a micro– mega– pro­ject.
For the last 30 years, Sydney’s Gay and Les­bian com­munity has paraded down Oxford Street. The Sydney Morn­ing Her­ald has a lib­rary of images from the parade: and has used the Deep Zoom fea­ture of Silverlight […]

Using Webslice and IFrames in WebSlices

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Test­ing only. If you are read­ing this, please ensure you are using Inter­net Explorer 8
Webslices are new con­sumer fea­ture in Inter­net Explorer 8. You can embed simple HTML within a WebSlice that is a por­tion of a pre-existing page. To get IFRAMES and OBJECT to work there is a little tweak­ing required. Then you get […]

Liveslices.com

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

In the cat­egory of “why didn’t I think of this” comes liveslices.com. Go have a look (obvi­ously after installing IE8RC)
Webslices is one of the new end-user fea­tures of IE8. It is easy to imple­ment on your web­site: I added it to http://www.nickhodge.com/ within minutes. Some micro­format wrap­ping around chan­ging con­tent, and it is act­ive.
WebSlices will […]

IE8">Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Inter­net Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Mel­bourne (Premier of Vic­toria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.
What about this web­site?
Not so good. Some­thing is broken some­where. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to completely […]