http://www.mywebcards.net/blog WebCards Updates Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:09:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft has released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8. You can download it from the Internet Explorer 8 website. Release notes are also available. http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/03/06/internet-explorer-8-beta-released/ Today I unveil the new WebCards Website design. I hope you like it. The site should be easier to navigate and the HTML is much more lightweight. The XHTML validates (mostly) to the XHTML Strict specification. Please let me know if you have any problems with the new design or experience ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/02/18/new-webcards-website-design/ I came across an Article via Slashdot entitled Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free. It is a very good read and tries to explain some of the reasons that Linux hasn't taken off big time. Although my opinion is that Windows is dominant simply because every ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/02/17/why-linux-doesnt-spread/ I just wanted to let people know about the latest feature coming in the next version of WebCards: bulk upload. You simply upload all your chosen images to a specified folder ("import") and refresh the page. All the images in the folder will be listed. You can choose which ones to ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/02/10/upcoming-feature-bulk-upload/ French Internet traffic analysis company XiTi has released data showing that Firefox is slowly increasing its market share over Internet Explorer. Their results are based on compiled data from 2007. XiTi Monitor reports a worldwide browser share of 66.1% for Internet Explorer and 28% for Firefox. Opera has a 3.3% share ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/02/04/how-popular-is-firefox-depends-which-statistics-you-look-at/ As I hadn't been to the cinema in such a long time I decided to take my wife and see the first move that was on when we got there. It was Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. If you don't know, it's based on a Broadway musical by ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/01/31/review-sweeney-todd/ Introducing the latest WebCards feature: the search cloud. OK, it 's not a major new feature but I just want to let people know that latest WebCards development news. If you don't know what a search cloud is, it is a list of recent search terms with more emphasis given to ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/01/30/new-feature-search-cloud/ The W3C has released their working draft of HTML 5. It is still very much a work in progress but there are some interesting new tags in there, such as the audio and video tags. They have also published an article detaling the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5. From a ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/01/24/html-5-draft-specification-released/ Businesses are being warned that on 12 February, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) will automatically update Internet Explorer to version 7, unless they act to prevent the update. Since October, Windows Genuine Advantage validation has not been required to upgrade to IE7 anS Microsoft announced back then that the automatic update ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/01/23/autoupdate-to-internet-explorer-7-and-news-on-ie8/ The CSS3 working group are looking for feedback on what people want implemented in CSS3. From the blog post: The CSSWG plans to discuss its charter at our next face-to-face meeting in March. If groups like CSS3.info, the CSS Eleven, and the WaSP and/or individuals like Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer could ... http://www.mywebcards.net/blog/2008/01/22/what-do-you-want-from-css-the-css3-working-group-want-to-know/