Archive for the 'Good Things' Category

Yahoo on “Graded Browser Support”

February 14, 2006

Nate Koechley, Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc. on Graded Browser Support. She concludes the piece with a quote from Tim Berners-Lee:

“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Yahoo also publish a table that shows the level of support each browser receives.

Google and Skype join new wi-fi venture

February 6, 2006

The FT reports that Google, Skype, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital are investing €18m in funding for Madrid-based Fon to build on its growing global band of “foneros”.

The company allows broadband subscribers to share their internet connection with other users to create local “hot spots”.  They already have 3,000 members.

404 Error Page from the French Ministry of Culture

October 8, 2003

It is a thing of great beauty – imagine the Scottish version …. (courtesy of Boing Boing Blog).