Internet Explorer

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 — 4 March 2011 — 635 words

Saying goodbye to Internet Explorer 6

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Work: University of St Andrews

Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Today, Microsoft launched a big push aimed at “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6”. IE6 Countdown aims to educate people about why they need to upgrade their browsers. The target is for IE6 to account for less than […]

Article — 27 January 2011 — 546 words

PDF problems? Check your filenames

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Work: University of St Andrews

Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. We have been contacted a couple of times recently by content maintainers who were concerned that some users of the website were unable to open PDF files. Our users have particularly been having problems opening some PDFs in Firefox, […]

Article — 24 November 2010 — 802 words

T44U — TerminalFour global user conference

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Work: University of St Andrews

Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Last week saw the annual T44U conference take place in Dublin. T44U is an annual event run by TerminalFour. It is designed to allow users of the content management system, Site Manager, to share their experiences with each other, […]

Article — 13 August 2010 — 1,433 words

Making the Student Handbook mobile-friendly

User experience — Web

Work: Mobile-friendly Student Handbook

Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Yesterday I wrote a post about our first steps into the mobile web. Today I will look at what I had to do to make it happen. Learning about the principles The first step was to think about the […]

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. […]

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