Author: Martin

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Presto! Opera 7 on the way!

The word has been filtering out for a while now, but Opera have only just now put up a link on their home page to announce that Opera version 7 due soon–at least in beta form. Drool.

Opera is fast and efficient, and has a number of features that make web browsing so much easier than IE. Mozilla has the features, but is still icky slow. But what Opera has lacked so far is W3C DOM support, i.e. effective support for DHTML. And this is just one of the things they’ll be bringing to version 7. I can hardly wait! I just hope they make their beta program widely available!

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A syllabus for Information Architecture

Peter Morville (he of the Polar Bear book) outlines a syllabus for a college-level course in Information Architecture. I don’t know if the course is definitely running, or if it’s just a proposal, but the content sure looks interesting. Unsurprisingly, he uses the Polar Bear book for a lot of the course reading material, but he points to a vast amount of other useful stuff along the way. looks like I’ve got my reading list for the weekend sorted out…
(Via Webword.com)

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Old site, new site, red site, blue site

Okaaaaayyyy…. We should be rolling with the new design now! The front page is up, and all the indicidual entries are being archived off to their individual places. We have a (still pretty basic) search, and even comments are working!

Still to to, though:

  • Add the category archives
  • Convert the monthly archives
  • Tweak the permalinks to be proper slashforward links
  • Update the sidebar. (Lots of sub-tasks here…)
  • And then, maybe, I can go back and clean up some of the HTML in the old content.

I think I need to go to bed now, though…

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Mozilla and style sheets: follow-up

Once I’d found the CSS MIME type problem, I found a few more documents relating to it. As an alternative to editing the httpd.conf file, they suggest adding a .htaccess file to my web site, with a directive to change the MIME type for CSS files, i.e.:


AddType text/css css

But this doesn’t seem to work. I think the server admin is only allowing certain directives to be overridden in .htaccess files, and “AddType” is not one of them. Oh, well. Maybe a quick email to EZPublishing‘s tech support will sort things out.

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