A new kid on the browser block, Flock claims to be a browser which does what Web2.0 is all about: sharing. And there is even better news for developers; Flock is based on Mozilla technologies, which means we won’t have to optimize websites for yet another browser.

Now if you say, “Hey, that ain’t all that new!” – you are right. While the concept of sharing through your webbrowser is not new – I also wrote about Allpeers a while back, and Allpeers is the ex-Skype people’s new project (after they sold Skype to eBay) – I reviewed Allpeer’s website today and it still remains a “coming soon” whereas Flock is here now.

A recent update of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, reveals a bug feature which forces your visitors to enable embedded Flash content by click.

The new Dell laptop is $3500 to start but comes with a 20″ screen — is there a market for this?

Google Inc. will introduce a spreadsheet program Tuesday, continuing the Internet search leader’s expansion into territory long dominated by Microsoft Corp.

We recently made some big changes at HTMLCenter. Here is what is going on, what we have planned and where we are heading.

While I thought optimizing for another browser is out of date since they all pretty much follow the same models, I noticed that especially with complexity of applications on the rise in regard to XHTML, JavaScript code and CSS (hint: Ajax) I found myself optimizing for Internet Explorer 6 a lot more than I do for its competition.

The competition which is primarily is Firefox on Windows and Linux/Unix, and Safari when you are on Mac OS X. Even the Camino browser bears less issues as IE6 lately. But my equation also totally neglects Opera.

Weirdness!

Tags: browser, development, optimization

Andy Peatling’s CSS Tweak is a webbased software that will take in any CSS file and optimize its styles by grouping them and by putting them in shorthand.

It will also remove comments and whitespace for maximum compression and small filesize, if requested to do so.

Very cool, Andy.

Tags: css, csstweak

Mark, who’s our local design guru at HTMLCenter, relaunched his website ecard service Maxtango. Maxtango features very well designed designer ecards for those who are not comfortable with the average Bluemountain ecard. Please spread!

Here’s his press release:
Maxtango is a free Ecard service created for the design community to engage, participate and exchange in the fun of sending Ecards. Ecards are Conversations. Communication has become one of the most important and effective entities in digital media, being highly effective and indispensable. Ecards carry a message, emotion or feeling.

http://www.ajaxload.info/, for all your loading indicator needs.

Tags: ajax

Here is an interesting piece of code I ran accross the other day:
http://www.masuga.com/thelab/ajaxrate/

Thanks to Mark!

Tags: ajax, web2.0, rating