Is the scourge of developers finally on the way out?
Google announced over the weekend that it’s going to stop supporting IE6 in some of it’s web applications. I bet many developers are hoping that this message will finally get through to those *still* using it that there is better technology out there and the should upgrade.
I know that the majority of these users are probably corperate users where they don’t have a choice but if the figures of 20% are still true that is a lot of ancient browsers out there that cause almighty headaches for anyone developing websites now days. Personally as most of the people who visit this site use firefox >46% and I’ve only had 2 visits with IE6 I don’t do anything special but I know that it’s important for proper sites to keep supporting it while people keep visiting them with it.
Imagine the amount of development effort and money that could have been saved if everyone had upgraded two years ago… Come on people give it up!
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A move of subdomain
Just a quick note to say that the site has moved from www.robstacey.com to blog.robstacey.com. If you notice any changes or problems then let me know, there should be a 301 redirect in place for the moment!
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Bookkeeping
I’m thinking of adding a few new things to the blog over the next few weeks so if anyone has any ideas or critisms of the blog then let me know.
Things that I’d like to play with:
Layout (making it a bit tidier again)
Colours (making it a little easier on the eye)
Post content (Only putting a section of the text up and having to click through to read the post - I’m not sure about this one - would it put you off reading the posts?)
Comments - email upates
Navigation - what pages do people look at?
Galleries - I was going to put up a gallery page for most images…
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