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Mac vs PC Firefox 3 Add Bookmark Dialog

One major annoyance between the Mac and PC versions of Firefox 3 is the position of the “Done” button on the Add Bookmark dialog. On a Mac, the button is on the right. On a PC, it’s on the left. I won’t comment on which is better, just that the difference breaks my muscle memory [...]

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Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack: One Paragraph Review

Staying home sick from work and puking my guts out earlier in the day is apparently no excuse for canceling Halo night, especially not when it happens to be the day the Legendary Map Pack gets released. So last night the boys came over and we fired up the old 360 to test out the [...]

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Version Targeting and IE8 Followup

Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in IE8 (as I discussed in a previous post).

“In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting ‘Standards’ [...]

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Xbox 360 Repairs - Part Five

Well, that was nice and quick! I got an email yesterday saying the service center received my xbox, and today I got another email saying my xbox has shipped. They’re FedExing it back, so I should have it back within the week.

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Version Targeting and IE8

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine into standards mode by targeting a specific browser version, something that was previously done by using a valid DOCTYPE. A lot of people, including Jeremy Keith, think this is a [...]

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