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HTML 5 support for IE7 and IE8 … today!

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Hi,

As is usual, Google is pushing the Web forward with their innovations in Web technology – this time around, we have Chromeframe, a plug-in that gives IE Chrome browser capabilities … that is to say, HTML5 ability.

From Google:

Enable open web technologies in Internet Explorer

Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

* Start using open web technologies – like the HTML5 canvas tag – right away, even technologies that aren’t yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
* Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

The video from Google:

The Chromeframe plug-in is of course based on the Chrome web browser.

My take on this:
I’m not sure how practical this is for most web designers, but for the adventurous sort, this maybe something to explore. For instance:

- how well does the plug-in work?
- how easy is it to install: could you convince your IE7 and IE8 visitors to install it?
- can you degrade Chromeframe implementations gracefully?

So, if you are beginner or you are a hard-core in-your-face, I got no time to waste working web designer – forget this post for now.

:)

Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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Google on Steroids!

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

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Hi,

I just made a blog post on killerphp.com about the Killersites University, you know … a little shameless self promotion to stoke the flames of capitalism.

Anyway, within minutes of making the post, Google emailed me an alert (a ‘Google Alerts’) about the post I just made – I’m talking literally 2-3 minutes!!

… Google is getting to be hyperbolic fast – jacked up on search engine roids or something!

;)

What are Google Alerts?

Just in case you don’t know, Google has this service called Google Alerts, where you can ask Google to send you emails about any keywords you want to spy on. For me, I track the term ‘killersites.com’ to see who’s stealing my content and to track what the general buzz is, if any, on what I do here.

What can I say … Google kicks ass. Good luck to Bing and Yahoo.

Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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Killersites Web Design Forum Upgraded!

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Hi,

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As part of our ongoing process of upgrading the killersites network of sites, I just wanted to announce a significant upgrade to the killersites forums.

We’ve enhanced both the look and functionality with the aim of making it a little easier to use.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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Killersites University is live!

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

killersites.com-university

Hi,

After a couple of months of hard work, we finally got the new video tutorial subscription system up and running.

About the University:

The Killersites University is a subscription based service that gives you total access to our GROWING collection of web design and web design related training videos. Not just a collection of tips and tricks videos, we provide complete video courses on popular subjects like:

* HTML
* CSS
* Dreamweaver
* PHP
* Javascript
* and much more

You can learn more about it here:

http://www.killersites.com/university/

What’s next?

Now that we have the University up and running, we will be able to focus a lot more time on new videos. Subscribe to the RSS feed or one of my newsletters to keep up-to-date.

Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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Product Review: VMware-Fusion-3.0 … so far it sucks

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Update:

I just installed VMware Fusion Version 3.0.1 (215242) … and it seems to have solved the problems I listed below. Thanks be to the nerds – I use Fusion a lot!

The original post …

Hi,

I use both Windows and Mac machines at work. But still, when on the Mac, it is useful to have Windows available for those rare occasions where you need to jump quickly into Windows … some programs can still only be found on Windows.

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You have a few choices when it comes to installing Windows on your Mac, but for me, Vmware Fusion has been my favorite because it works really well and hasn’t given me any problems … until now.

VMware-Fusion-3.0 is Buggy

I just installed and soon after, uninstalled the latest version (VMware Fusion 3) because Fusion 3:

- ran really slow as compared to VMware Fusion 2.x
- could not connect to the netwok adaptor card and thus the Web.

So once again, I broke my own rule of NEVER upgrading software, until at least a few months after the release date … for the bugs to work themselves out.

… For Microsoft software, I would extend that to as long as a year!

I hope this post saves people a headache.

Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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