Web Design Blog

Offline web applications with Firefox 3

Robert O’Callahan, a New Zealand based developer of the Mozilla/FireFox rendering engine, has spoken about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because it will allow people to use web applications like Gmail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets in the browser even when they’re offline. Rod Drury also pointed out in his post how this makes Firefox attractive as the browser platform of choice for SaaS providers (Software as a Service) such as salesforce.com.

The new HAS Europe website goes live

HAS Europe, established in 1996, supplies Sky boxes with viewing cards all over Europe. They offer a full installation service from Monaco to St. Tropez and cover the rest of Europe with a free next day delivery mail order service. Uniquely, HAS Europe also offer a full support service to keep their customers “in the picture” should any problems arise.

Where are the Joneses?

Where are the Joneses?” is a new interactive sitcom from Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow productions. Where this sitcom differs from those before it is that each new episode is released onto YouTube and the shows fans are able to keep in touch with the goings on via social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, various blogs updated by the shows cast and even Twitter.

WCAG Samurai

Last year Joe Clark published the now infamous article “To hell with WCAG 2.0” on A List Apart. If you didn’t get a change to catch it first time around the article criticises the then newly released WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0:

Safari for Windows - An entirely text free experience

Apple has today announced the release of a beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. Without wasting anytime I eagerly downloaded the new browser and installed it. Upon launching Safari for the first time, the page that loaded on start-up (from Apple’s own website) was completely devoid of any text. But that was not all, scanning around the screen I realised the entire user interface was also missing text as well! No problem I thought, probably needs a restart, maybe even a re-install, but after carrying out both the results were still the same.