On The Road with Vicky Lamburn

Woah nelly, hell has just dropped below zero (or 32F)!

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx

This is fantastic news and a brilliant example that Microsoft does listen when something makes sense. That’s right: it seems IE8’s default behaviour will now be IE8 (ACID2 compliant) standards mode, with IE 7 Standards (read IE6 interoperable) mode being switchable.

In one policy decision, in one line of code probably — Microsoft is effectively ‘fixing the web’ to borrow some of their parlance.

This is a fantastic bit of news and may even make me consider IE 8 as my main browser if its good enough on my Windows XP box/partition.

As a veteran web developer now, I am so happy. Microsoft deserves kudos for this; even though they should have been consistent with standards from day one. But I won’t hold a grudge, even when half of my working week is spent with my mind taunted with Internet Explorer 6 compatibility.

At last the new Worthing Theatres website is online.

It’s a cracking little site. Lots of very snazzy CSS wizardry and not a bit of Flash or the likes in sight. A bit of Javascript for the calendar and title image rollover text but that’s it. Plus it also works in Internet Explorer 6.

I’m very happy with it. And I know a lot of other people will be too. Hopefully this will answer all of the problems we had with the old site which was just not a good website.

Also–it’s an entirely static website apart from some ASP glue; no database driving it at all. That’s not necessarily a good thing but we have managed to keep most of the ‘dynamism’ a database driven site naturally has.

I’m such a happy bunny Three months hard work have paid off.

Now on to the next one.