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From today Microsoft is asking European Users if they would like to use a different browser other than Internet Explorer (IE).This change has come as part of a deal that Microsoft have made with the European Commission after being accused of abusing its market position. Read more »
From today Microsoft is asking European Users if they would like to use a different browser other than Internet Explorer (IE).This change has come as part of a deal that Microsoft have made with the European Commission after being accused of abusing its market position. Read more »
Ever wondered what search engines (Google, Bing, Ask, Yahoo etc) find when they visit your site? Do they find lots of related text and links to other parts of your site? If they do that's great. If not then there is some work do be done and quick! Read more
Microsoft has announced that it will launch a major advertising campaign to encourage the UK to start using its Bing search engine. The advertising campaign - which will run across major television stations - will use the slogan 'Bing and decide' and is aiming, in Microsoft's words, to help searchers make more informed decisions
Famous York street 'The Shambles' has today won Google Street Views award for being the most picturesque street in Britain. 'The Shambles' is one of Yorks most famous streets and attracts thousands of visitors each year including as part of the Yorkshire Trail. Read more
Enter Windows 7 in six versions Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, OEM, and Enterprise. But whether Windows 7 offers us enough to finally abandon Windows XP are questions yet to be answered; so we decided to begin conducting testing of our own to share with you our findings so far. Read more
The big question facing major newspapers is how can they compete with free. News used to be a saleable commodity, but why pay 70p to read information I can read for free from the very same news company. Read more
The small sleepy market town of Highworth in Swindon is to become the first town in Britain to have a Wi-Fi dome or mesh as it is also known. This revolutionary cloud computing will mean free Wi-Fi to all residents of the whole town anytime, anywhere.
Google have announced the latest update for their online search: a virtual, on-screen keyboard that allows text entry in foreign languages, saving users having to use a specialist physical keyboard. read more
HTML 5 is the next major version of HTML. It introduces a bunch of new elements. Fancy APIs for drawing graphics on screen, storing data offline, dragging and dropping, and more. In HTML 5, there is only one doctype. It is declared in the beginning of the page by doctype html. It simply tells the browser that it's dealing with an HTML-document.
The new era will also feature upgrades to CSS. CSS 3 builds upon the principles about styles, selectors and the cascade that we know so well from earlier versions of CSS. It adds loads of new features, including new selectors, pseudo-classes and properties. Using these new features it becomes a lot easier for us to set up your layout. New properties Kate! woohoo!.
One is background-size, which allows you to scale the background-image...the box expands as we add more content to it, the gradient background will scale as well. This is something that was not possible in CSS 2.1 without non-semantic markup and miscellaneous browser issues. Border-radius, applies rounded corners to the element. You could specify different values for each corner!! or choose to only round individual corners. Wow. - more on this as we do a byitsized review. other articles page
In 2003 Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser accounted for around 95% of the market, it is now down to less than 60% according to latest figures. Statistics show the IE has now only 59.9% of the market with Mozilla's Firefox gaining fast with a 24.5% share. Google's Chrome is in third place with a 6.7% share - although this seems very small by comparison it has risen from 1.7% in a year.
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