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…
Eric Meyer reports of a new contest to redesign Jakob Nielsen’s useit.com website. These are the requirements (visit the contest page for more information): The design must use valid tableless XHTML 1.0, CSS, and it must meet WAI Accessibility level 1. JavaScript, GIF, JPG and PNG images may be used. Server scripts, databases, and plug-in…
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 couple of people signed up recently and I was prompted to check out how many people in Singapore were interested in a Web Standards meetup. I was impressed. Shall we? [Another question – where exactly can we meet up? Somewhere we can hang out and hopefully with free wireless…]
A long time ago, as a frustrated web designer whose client noticed that a Flash form didn’t go to the right fields when the ‘tab’ button was used, I realised that there were very few good resources on the web that actually taught you how to code your forms properly. So when I did figure…
If you’ve ever done web design before, do take this survey. Some of the answers I gave made me smile, because it’s been years since my job title was ‘web designer’. While web designing is not my main role anymore, as an overseer of numerous projects I still use my whip judiciously. We can all…
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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.