Want tabbed browsing on *ugh* Internet Explorer? You can have it, as advertised on Microsoft’s Windows website. It even comes with a popup blocker *ooh!* and a search bar *wow*.
However, it costs US$29.95. And the reviewers of this software don’t seem to realise there are better products out there, going for free.
Get real. Get Firefox!
After the useit.com redesign competition comes a proposal to redesign Slashdot. Also useful to read if you’re thinking of reformatting your company website into something a little more compliant and semantic. And here’s the book we’ve been waiting for: Carrie Bickner’s Web Design on a Shoestring. A positive Digital Web magazine review here. Considering the…
I just submitted my WSSG (Web Standards Singapore) logo. I’ve decided that nothing I’m going to do in my life will ever be perfect, and my work isn’t going to get richer with age, unlike wine, so there’s no point keeping it till the last moment. It’s only when I do things like this, however,…
A hearty congratulations to the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) for developing what is probably the Singapore Government’s first AAA-rated website. Go on, take a look. It doesn’t look too bad either, contrary to what some might expect. Their site conforms to three international standards. I attended the seminar organised by Design…
Worth reading: A US marketing professor’s damning report on the poor accessibility support found in the vast majority of private sector websites. Its conclusions are based on statistical evidence. In fact, the other articles on the Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) website are pretty good reads themselves. [Linked from Builtforthefuture.com.]
So many people have been directed from search engines, to a previous post of mine on tab orders in Flash, that I have been prompted to write a tutorial. On this page you will find notes from Macromedia (extra reading), a quick-fix solution in .fla format (no explanations given), and the proper tutorial, which you…
There I was, happily ranting away about Web Standards again when Ryan Lin pointed out that my page had XHTML errors. Eep! How did that happen? Firstly, I missed a couple of stray ampersands in my ‘Asides’ column. I’m usually quite picky with invalid URLs, but was so excited to hear that Prince William was…
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Another reason to use Firefox might be my extension called “LookAhead”. Just do a Google search on LookAhead (all one word) and you’ll find out what it’s all about…
For IE there is Avant Browser which, amongst other features, provides tabbed browsing.
I just wanted to point out the fact that microsoft does not actualy make or sell this shell, they just help market it.
But I second you last comment, get firefox.