Web news
Dave Bancroft
6 Jan 2012
The slow demise of Internet Explorer 6
Fantastic News. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is nearly dead! The bane of developers lives for much of the last decade, and a major security hole, IE6 has consistently been in …
Paul Sayer
16 Oct 2011
Fancy 300Mbps broadband speeds?
As part of it’s roll-out plans to have fibre broadband available to two-thirds of UK premises by 2015 using Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), BT is trialling a service called …
Paul Sayer
5 Oct 2011
Latest web browser stats – Sept 2011
The latest browser stats to September 2011, show that the decline in IE market share (41.66%) stalled this month, with only a very small decrease. Have they now finally released …
Paul Sayer
5 Oct 2011
The web going Horizontal?
After years of web designs and trying not to make web users scroll horizontally, it seems that the BBC is turning that convention, through 90 degrees. Check out the new …
Dave Haygarth
14 Jan 2011
‘Challenging’ typography can enhance learning
A really interesting article from BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme yesterday (13 01 2011 for which we can’t really find anything on the internet to point to!!) – in essence, …
Dave Bancroft
24 Feb 2010
Google Continues Efforts to Kill Off Internet Explorer 6
Web designers around the world will be rejoicing that Google is taking a lead in banishing the deeply unloved Internet Explorer 6 to the annals. Those not familiar with web …
Dave Bancroft
9 Feb 2010
Jobsite hacked?
Some very strange stuff going on – even SEO expert Dave Naylor hasn’t quite got to the bottom of it. It seems some spammers/hackers are managing to redirect people from …
Dave Bancroft
30 Jul 2009
Goodbye Yahoo Search, Hello Bing!
Astute web users (or perhaps those not glued to Google!) may have noticed Microsoft Live Search changing to Bing back in June 09: a much more solid and accurate search …
Dave Bancroft
8 Jul 2009
Google Re-think the Operating System
With many of us spending an increasing amount of our work lives “in the cloud” using web sites that actually do stuff – or “web applications” as they have become …
Dave Haygarth
23 Apr 2009
Susan Boyle: The Lost Profit
The fact that YouTube and ITV have been unable to monetize the sensational rise of Susan Boyle is a bit of a blunder. It shows the archaic ways that business …
