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Drupal works better in FireFox than IE | November 28th, 2005
I’ve been playing around with a Bryght site recently, really just trying to learn about Drupal as it’s been called a Web 2.0 content management system. It’s really cool, I’m stoked on the tagging, taxonomy and aggregation features! Basically I’ve been trying to help my friend Jamie, who’s not a techie, convert our online ski portal from SpeedSite to a Bryght site. Glaring usability issues aside, which I hope to one day hope to help Kris, Boris and the gang with, I’ve discovered recently that both the admin tool and the public facing websites work better in FireFox than Internet Explorer. The first thing I noticed is using the back button in the admin area doesn’t really work in IE, kind of annoying but ok. Then I was on UrbanVancouver this morning trying to post an event. So i went through the process created an account, but then couldn’t find a button to add event or anything! I was starting to feel like an idiot and was about email the site admin or something when I found a how-to page where it clearly stated there should be a “create content” link on the left side. I switched to FireFox and voila all the links appeared, and I post the Buy Local event.
Anyway Drupal, as much as you might dislike IE or MS or whatever, you need to support IE it’s still the lions share of the market. Not supporting IE only disuades your average user from switching. I’d use FireFox more but I have to always run 2 browsers and because of issues like this. And more stuff is supported in IE still.
PS. I know our ajax grid doesn’t work in FireFox yet…we’re working on it round the clock;)
Technorati Tags : Drupal, bryght, firefox, ie, browsers, compliance, web20
Buy Local, Support Yourself | November 28th, 2005
I’m a board member of Balle BC and we’re putting on a great event next weekend to promote local purchasing and a sustainable economy in Vancouver:
“Buy Local, Support Yourself! Join us December 3rd from 11am-5pm on the back lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery to discover, shop and celebrate all things local. In partnership with the Business Improvement Areas, Vancouver Economic Development and the City of Vancouver, BALLE BC will host a marketplace of local vendors to showcase the strength and diversity of our local economy.”
More info on Buy Local, Support Yourself
Internationalized AJAX – i18n – Combo Box | November 26th, 2005
We launched the EBA Web Combo V3.2 this week, which has a bunch of usability enhancements but the most exciting for us the AJAX internalization and support for foreign character sets such Chinese, Japanese and all European languages. It was a much larger job than we expected to support foreign character sets, but our international customers are happy we did;)
“ i18n & Unicode Compliant – Works against Unicode data, including double byte Kanji (Japanese) and latin languages. Language packs make localization of application messages simple.”
PS. If you’re wondering where the acronym i18n comes from the 18 letters in the word internationalization between the “i” and the “n”. More on the origins of il8n here.
Invest in BC Technology and Software Companies | November 23rd, 2005
Greenstone Ventures Partners have put together a very interesting report on exit value in canada, which highlights some of the benefits of investing in BC based technology companies.
Is The IE JavaScript Flaw a Threat to AJAX or a Catalyst to FireFox? | November 23rd, 2005
A serious JavaScript related flaw in IE called “JS.Scob.Trojan“ was reported today. Security experts are saying: “you basically have two choices: Disable JavaScript in Internet Explorer or install another browser.” Well is users disable JavaScript in IE, still the leading web browser, that will disable any AJAX based website they go to. On the other hand if users care enough about AJAX style interfaces they can install Mozilla’s FireFox and keep on surfing!
Will websites and enterprises shy away from AJAX (I hope not) or will users adopt alternate, non MS, web browsers?
(Might depend how quickly MS releases a patch).
Blogosphere Mix Ups and Mistaken Identity. | November 19th, 2005
I was recently pointed (thanks Boris) to a blog where I’ve been confused with another person, after a Web 2.0 focused panel I spoke on in Vancouver about AJAX . I tried to post a comment on the blog post wasn’t able to create an account to do so. I couldn’t easily find an email addres so I guess blogging about it makes me feel better, or maybe the author will read this and change the blog. I hope.
Hey John Koetsier, dude! Change the name, I’m not Geoff Hansen. I have nothing to do with Puretracks.com and I don’t know why record labels wouldn’t want mac users to use Puretracks either.
The funny thing is he linked to my post about the event, my presentation and that I was clearly talking about AJAX and not puretracks. Alhtough they do rhyme;-) No hard feelings though John.
Would some Identitiy 2.0 infrastructure have prevented this? Prolly not. Mind you it didn’t happen to Dick.
Kill Bill’s Browser | November 14th, 2005
Found this humorous. Although I’m not some anti-MS zealot, I do like competition and alternatives in the marketplace.
Article on AJAX Development Tools and Trends by Jordan Frank | November 9th, 2005
Jordan Frank just published an article titled “Keeping Up With The Ajax Trend“ on Developer.com and Gamelan. Good work Jordan!
Developer Needs for Components and AJaX | November 9th, 2005
The recently leaked Bill Gates memo about Web 2.0 and services and Microsoft’s strategy to revamp their offerings. I can’t help but wonder if this is somehow at least partly in response to a recent AJAX article by AP than ran everywhere from Wired to CNN , including this quote:
“It definitely supports a Microsoft exit strategy,” said Alexei White, a product manager at Ajax developer eBusiness Applications Ltd.
Come on… let us small Vancouver software developers dream a bit;-)
Funny because the reporter really wanted a quote like that. Funny because MS did really did allow AJAX to happen, however they did pretty much drop the ball after OWA, and have only recently jumped back on the band wagon. And they are doing so in force with Atlas, Windows Live, and MSN Virtual Earth.
I believe they are on the right track now. We share some views in the future needs of developers:
“Developers needing tools and libraries to do their work just search the Internet, download, develop and integrate, deploy, refine,” Ozzie wrote. “Speed, simplicity and loose coupling are paramount.”
These are the exact needs we aim to meet when building our AJAX component suite and developer tools. Interesting the loose coupling mention as MS currently seems to taking an all MS or nothing stance for most of their developer tools. However, historically Visual Studio was a better IDE to develop plug-ins but that may change with the new versions and focus of Eclipse. We’ll see where things go, but it’s interesting times for sure. Will MS shift course and continue to dominate, they likely can, or is the beginning the end of the MS empire?
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