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Article — 20 August 2013 — 982 words

Internet Explorer: time for Microsoft to start afresh?

Happy birthday Internet Explorer, which has turned 18. But there is not much to celebrate. What can Microsoft do to stem the browser’s decline?

Article — 19 July 2010 — 636 words

Why are web browser logos all circular?

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Work: University of St Andrews

A thought suddenly occurred to me last week when I was attending a presentation at IWMW about HTML5 and friends. One of the slides contained the logos of the five major browsers. It suddenly occurred to me that they are all round! It is almost as if the circle or sphere has, by stealth, become […]

Article — 17 July 2008 — 1,381 words

Why is technology news not news?

Current affairs — Media — Technology — Web

I’ve been wondering a bit about the way technology news is still ghettoised. I don’t mean news about the latest rubbish web 2.0 start-up with a ridiculous name. I mean quite important stuff. Security problems and the like. Take what happened last week. A patch to fix a major flaw in the DNS was released. […]

Linknote — 25 June 2005 — 8 words

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Microsoft makes web feeds easier — Jo Twist — BBC News

Internet Explorer 7 will be better with RSS feeds.