Alan Hogan

Things Alan Hogan feels like sharing.

These are my comments on music, movies, books, web development and programming, Mac tips, and life in general. Enjoy!

Fri Feb 20

Wow – what’s still wrong with IE8: http://bit.ly/krBTZ (MSIE8 still has no XPath?) via @NikLP

Glad to see I apparently inspired @jmoriarty to join the #blackout (without abandoning an avatar - best of both worlds)

Yesss! “To Hell With Bad Browsers II” - @ppk has a FANTASTIC page to get your IE6 visitors to upgrade! http://bit.ly/1aDemD

My only recommendation for #followfriday is the überpicky (and überplucky) iPhone developer @atebits, maker of @tweetie.

Thu Feb 19

Sigh. So I guess we wait for real standards support in IE9?

Internet Explorer 8’s Incompatability List Is Really Sad: lmao typical http://tinyurl.com/bk8pnl (via @chuckreynolds)

Microsoft will be talking about their “new” mobile browser which is based on MSIE6. Should i harrass them?

On campus, i should add.

According to this employee, Microsoft used put MSIE6 rendering engine on Mobile b/c of lighter weight & suppsdly gr8r compat w mobile sites.

Asked about the trend of pulling MSIE6 support, MS employee denied the trend and said all webmasters sniff UA to provide mobile content. Ha!

Is there a meta tag (or similar) to define a thumbnail for a website?

BURRITO is an ENGLISH WORD now. We call them LOAN WORDS but we are NOT GIVING THEM BACK.

Text I sent today: “… breakfast currito DAMNIT T9 I ALREADY TAUGHT YOU BURRITO ARGH I NEED AN IPHONE NOW”

Finally did some follow-backs. (Not you? It’s OK, I just wasn’t interested by your recent tweets. Can still @-reply. See http://twxr.us/2wk)

Wed Feb 18

I really like @brianshaler’s post about getting the most out of twitter: http://bit.ly/LEkRL Essentially follow fewer folks & really listen