Stopdesign: “Developing for IE initially, then trying to retrofit for other browsers will increase time and cost in the long run. But there’s a better way to approach development that’s faster and less costly.” As Phil put it, “Web standards, man. They produce results.”
Category: Software Development and Testing
On Online Forums
Josh L. at Microsoft has been doing some investigation into online forums – what makes them successful or not – and has collected the results so far into an excellent post entitled MVP Summit Views and Issues with Threaded Discussions. His findings include a couple of items, including one that I’d guess would surprise most. […]
Enabling an FTP Server
Scott’s using Windows XP Professional and wants to know if he can have an FTP service running. Sure he can, and so can you. Microsoft included an FTP service with Windows XP, it just doesn’t get installed and enabled by default. Adding it to your system will let others, using an FTP client, connect to […]
HTTP Redirect
For refererence, as we keep needing to do this and forgetting how… here’s the “HTML” for a client-side page redirect (change all the square brackets to angle brackets, of course): [meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”seconds;url=url”] in the [head] section. Sample: [DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”] [head] [title]Jumping to new page[/title] [meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”2;url=http://my.new.home/somewhere.html”] [/head] [body] …