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Comment on Firefox 3 Beta 4 and IE8 Beta 1 by alex

alex — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:47:34 +0000

If it is an option to give the user a way to see the page the author intended, then at best, it’s misnamed, and should just be called ‘compatibility mode’.

Besides (and playing devils advocate), is there anything really wrong with forcing people to update their sites so that they are actually built properly, and in the process, hopefully making the web more future proof, more accessible, etc etc?

Thirdly, if you *can* force the browser into a previous rendering mode, how is that a step forwards in any way. It’s certainly not quicker than the current FF beta (although, granted, we are only at beta 1), and now you can push it into the previous rendering mode to boot.. huh. If you don’t force people to do something, then they won’t, and we’ll presumably have to wait for IE9 for the IE8 rendering mode button, so that people will update their sites for IE8?

It’s not that I don’t think IE8 as a whole isn’t a good thing - i’m sure that it is, and I hope that the activities options open up social networking to a whole new set of people (and in the process, cause IT departments the world over a headache), it’s just that I really think you either update the browser, or you don’t - and at the moment, I don’t really think with the option there, it’s the update which it should be.

Comment on Firefox 3 Beta 4 and IE8 Beta 1 by Joshua Allen [msft]

Joshua Allen [msft] — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:32:56 +0000

“Emulate IE7″ button has little to do with confidence in the roadmap for IE8. The issue is that millions of sites were written for IE7 and the site authors will not lockstep upgrade a million sites just because MSFT releases a new browser. Gives the user an option to see the page the way the author intended it to be seen, rather than the way some standards advocates want it to be broken to “force people to update their sites”.

Comment on Videos from Cadwell park by alex

alex — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:29:40 +0000

Ahem, yes - although i’m unlikley to be doing that again. You’ll be pleased to know that since that sideways moment, it now has a plate-type LSD, which was the OEM option for the SC, so it goes sideways even better now.

Will let you know when we’re next out on track somewhere nearby..

Comment on Videos from Cadwell park by Joe Turner

Joe Turner — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:29:13 +0000

Great Videos!

The Charger is sounding superb there.

Need to get another mr2 fix sometime. I’m missing the fun trips to tescos and carving up the Grass of certain offices

Comment on For those of you wondering about IMOC by Tony Jinxy Froude

Tony Jinxy Froude — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:51:22 +0000

Yep i need my fix too, so pull your finger out Alex !! :0)

Comment on IMOC Status by alex

alex — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:20:32 +0000

Just incase anybody bookmarked this page - it looks like our hosting provider is having problems this morning

Comment on IMOC Status by Tom

Tom — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:39:43 +0000

Ben, Alex,

Thanks so much for your hard work. I know how much work you both do in the background but it often goes unnoticed. It’s only when something goes wrong that it comes to the fore…

Comment on IMOC Status by alex

alex — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:21:31 +0000

Once I’m back in this evening, I’ll be rolling my sleeves up and sweeping up anything which is left needing to be sorted - like Ben says, hopefully will be back up late tonight.

Comment on IMOC Status by Ben F

Ben F — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:45:13 +0000

Update #3

The server rebuild is complete, the www.imoc.co.uk site is again redirecting back to here.

Currently I’m restoring the site content from backup - starting last night there was 2.3GB of data, and as of 9am this morning there was another 9 hours of content to upload - the majority images from the Garage.

There’s still some server OS configuration to get in place that which will be done this evening.

Providing we don’t hit any showstopper application incompatibilities resulting from the upgrade IMOC should be back late this evening.

Comment on IMOC Status by welsha

welsha — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:01:15 +0000

gggrrrrr little toe rags want beating with a rubber pipe! Hope you don’t have too much work to get this place back up and running :-))