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Using XAMPP web server

Posted on Monday 5 September 2011 by

As we all (should) know testing out software on live environments isn’t particularly sensible. For the last five years in the office, and longer at home, I’ve been running XAMPP from Apache Friends as a test server on my PC. … Continue reading →

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What developers think of Internet Explorer

Posted on Friday 10 June 2011 by

I like this self-deprecating advert from Microsoft about Internet Explorer 9. Only today I was thinking how refreshing it is that I now don’t have to worry too much about testing webpages in Internet Explorer 9. Everything just works now. … Continue reading →

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My favourite Web developer add-ons for Firefox

Posted on Thursday 24 March 2011 by

Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 on Tuesday—it has already been downloaded 16,041,437 times; that’s about 92 downloads a second!— and there is a lot to commend it for: a clean look, that’s not too far away from both Google Chrome and … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer from version 1.0 to 9.0

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2011 by

Since Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 was released Andy—you know! Andy!—wondered what it would be like to install every version of Microsoft’s Web browser starting at IE 1.0 under Windows 95 and working all the way up through IE 6.0 on Windows … Continue reading →

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Saying goodbye to Internet Explorer 6

Posted on Friday 4 March 2011 by

Today, Microsoft launched a big push aimed at “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6″. IE6 Countdown aims to educate people about why they need to upgrade their browsers. The target is for IE6 to account for less than 1% … Continue reading →

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PDF problems? Check your filenames

Posted on Thursday 27 January 2011 by

We have been contacted a couple of times recently by content maintainers who were concerned that some users of the website were unable to open PDF files. Our users have particularly been having problems opening some PDFs in Firefox, while … Continue reading →

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What browsers have our visitors been using this year?

Posted on Monday 13 December 2010 by

The topic of which Web browsers are the most popular came up at our weekly Web team meeting this morning.  So I went away and did a little digging in our Google Analytics account.  (Bear in mind that I have … Continue reading →

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Should we still be supporting Internet Explorer 6?

Posted on Thursday 4 November 2010 by

Every couple of months the same topic of conversation comes up in the Web team office: should we still be supporting Internet Explorer 6? The answer so far has always been a resigned yes, but that may not be the case … Continue reading →

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Xobni for Outlook

Posted on Monday 27 September 2010 by

The University is currently in the process of moving to a replacement service for staff email and calendars, which are currently provided via two separate, locally-hosted applications, including Meeting Maker. The new service, dubbed Unimail, will be provided by Brightsolid … Continue reading →

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mSaint – student portal for iPhone

Posted on Friday 24 September 2010 by

Last month Duncan blogged about making the student handbook mobile friendly which was in preparation for mSaint – the new student portal for the iPhone, built on the campusM platform from oMbiel. mSaint went live this week and can be found … Continue reading →

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