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Best Tracks of 2011 (part 3 of 4)

font sizes fixed?

Font sizes are a major headache in my work. Before I started all websites were designed specifically for Internet Explorer ... luckily this trend is [...]

Link dump #86

BPI knuckle down

The British Phonographic Industry has decided to sue 28 major filesharers in the UK. [...]

Identical websites

Interesting piece of research highlighting the similarities between 10 major web design sites: results. [...]

Magazine review of 2007

IE 7 for all?

According to CNET NewsBill Gates said that [Microsoft] will ship an update to its browser separately from the next major version of Windows... a bet [...]

Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?

Comparative overview of the three major web browsers. [...]

Web History, a timeline

Security flaw in Opera

A major security flaw in the Opera browser in versions prior to 7.54 means users can read your email! If you're an Opera user download the latest v [...]

Music Round-up 2010

John Smeaton - Hero For Our Time

After the recent bomb-threats in the UK an unlikely hero has emerged from the incident at Glasgow Airport in the shape of John Smeaton, an airport bag [...]

Star HTML and Microsoft IE7

Molly divulges the reasoning behind why the IE7 team decided to drop support for the * html hack for the next major release of the world's most popu [...]

A downside to CSS?

Jan Holzman highlights the one downside of using CSS:...when I had to code a stylesheet working for 5 different browsers. You know this procedure wh [...]

Table-top arcade games

OpenOffice.org

If you are on a budget and need software like Microsoft Office components Word, Excel and Powerpoint then OpenOffice.org could be the perfect solution [...]

Protected Mode in Vista IE7

From the IE Blog:Microsoft Windows Vista introduced an enhanced security model that we were able to build on in Vista's version of IE7. I want to tell [...]

The three main barriers to an accessible site according to a visually impaired software expert

Ray Campbell, formerly an employee of global telecommunications group Lucent Technologies, cited graphics which lack descriptive text tags, necessary [...]

567,000 private MySpace pictures

567,000 private MySpace profile photos have been nicked in a major security breach. Story at Wired:A 17-gigabyte file purporting to contain more [...]

Color Chart

Link dump #76

Are the disabled revolting?

An article on The Register suggests that there may be a massive revolt by disabled internet users in the aftermath of the PAS 78 document release.Th [...]

Where's my head at?

You may well ask.Normally, with good intentions, I aim to sit down and write something witty, sharp and memorable to post on The Letter. I know I've [...]