Archives for: "October 2006"

Microformats

I started reading Using Microformats on Safari yesterday and was inspired. You should now find hCards on both the Blog and the About Us pages on this site, and I also started applying hResume to my CV. That's all very well, you may be saying, but wha… more »

Upgrading to Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP

This morning I upgraded to Firefox 2.0, though I didn't install the official build :) There were a number of obstacles to overcome to get everything working the way I wanted it, here is my story... The first thing I did was make a backup of my entire… more »

Prototype.js issues with Select elements

I ran into a strange bug at work today - on a form with a couple of select boxes with some buttons which swap elements between them a tester reported that some of the boxes were simply disappearing when he clicked on the buttons (though strangely, only i… more »

Google Accessible Search

A bit of Google day here in the Boog Link Blog. Discovered this earlier in the week. I was quite pleased to find that, mostly, pages I've been involved with do better on the accessibility search than they do on standard Google - my employer's website c… more »

Google Data Privacy

The best feature Google doesn't have? I currently have quite a lot of trust of Google (which, of course, may yet prove to be unfounded), but given the current trends on the web it would be nice if they implemented this sort of thing because then all the… more »

Swiftfox - optimized Firefox builds for Linux

Emboldened by my success with optimized Windows builds the other day, I had a go with a Linux version this weekend. I chose Swiftfox 1.8, which is just a regular rebuild of the standard release for various different architectures. It was simple enough… more »