Style-able text fields are coming to Safari
Labour Disputes in Web Development: Leaked Document!
Today at our office, perhaps inspired by the faculty at our local university, there was a rift between management and staff. Early in the afternoon, as the time of day we like to call “snack-o-clock” began to approach, there were rumblings of a potential work-stoppage if our (sweet, sweet) demands were not met.
Management was quick to respond and an agreement was reached in time for snack-o-clock. Things are still a little tense, but we’re all being mature about it.
You can take a look at a leaked copy of the agreement that was smuggled out of the high-level negotiations.
Why are there no banjos in Star Trek?
The East Coast Music Awards were in Charlottetown this past weekend and I enjoyed some great live music by Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Joel Plaskett, Wintersleep, Mir, and lots of traditional East Coast artists.
The true highlight of the weekend, though, was Cape Breton songwriter JP Cormier’s banjo jokes. As he brought out his banjo, he shared a joke that divided the crowd sharply into two contingents: people laughing (which was only myself), and everyone else.
Q. Why are there no banjos in Star Trek?
A. Because it’s in the future.
Awesome email to Firefox development list: “I’m neither a kid, nor a fool.” (granted, some of the hilarity is simply a language difference)
Sloan is working on their next album
This IEs 4 Linux script worked like a charm on Fedora Core 4 – I’ve now got IE6, IE5.5, and IE5 on Linux for browser testing.
Non-Tech Website Statistics
Some semi-anonymous browser statistics from a non-technology-related e-commerce website during a one-week period in early February 2006:
| 84.1% | Internet Explorer (97% of these using IE6) |
| 9.6% | Firefox (43% of these using v1.5) |
| 2.5% | Safari |
A few thoughts:
- Firefox really does have somewhere around 10% of the market. Most of the other statistics I’ve seen are skewed towards a more tech-aware crowd and lean more in favour of Firefox.
- Almost everyone uses Internet Explorer is up to version 6. It has been out for a few years now, and upgrading is easy, but I’m still surprised how few people are still on IE 5/5.5. This bodes relatively well for update of IE7 (which is already starting to show up in the statistics in beta form).
- A few people (literally, just a “few”) use IE5.x for the Mac
- Not even one visitor during this week used Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4. Not one. I never thought I would live to see such a time.
- Mac users are around 4%, Linux users below 0.3%. Someone visited using OS/2!
Ah, bullet points – lazy cousin of the paragraph.
Slick image hack for sharp lines along with JPEG images by fellow silverorange Daniel Burka
Actual press release from Canada’s Department of National Defence: NORAD prepares for Super Bowl XL