Musings on Technology
Heres a quick table giving you an idea of what browsers people visited my site with so far this month.
| USER AGENT | Percentage Split of Total Hits |
|---|---|
| Mozilla (Netscape etc) | 12.92% |
| Internet Explorer | 80.36% |
| Opera | 3.26% |
| Bot/Other | 3.21% |
Microsoft Internet Explorer has a strong showing, however my personal favourite, Mozilla, isn’t doing to bad either.
Well I’m begining to get my feet wet using PHP and MySQL for database driven sites. Usually I stick with ASP and MSSQL or Access, but a client wants to run an application from a linux box. Learning PHP isn’t turning out to be too difficult, I’ve used a few programming languages before, (C/C++, Java, Visual Basic etc) so learning a new one isn’t too difficult. File uploading seems a lot easier!
Still strong with the CSS Despite doing a lot of server side scripting, I really enjoy writing style sheets. One of the facets of stylesheets I’ve been trying to get to grips with is using @page rules with the projection stylesheet. This is only implemented on Opera at the moment (although Mozilla seem to be heading in this direction).
A new project, MACCAWS, aimed at making a commercial case for adopting web standards has just launched. The aim is to provide a Validation Kit
that will enable web developers to convine their financial bosses that investing in a standards based website is the right decsision commercially. The project seems to be initially taking the path of producing a white paper to that lays out the commercial case for web standards, with an emphasis on ROI.
While thinking about the project I remembered a comment I made a short time ago in response to an article on the MCU, Making web site accessibility a bottom line benefit is what will drive the accessible web into the mainstream.
The MACCAWS project has reminded me of the statement I made and reaffirmed my commitment to doing my part to help make the web a more accessible place to be.
I’ve finally gotten around to adding a couple more templates to my CSS layout collection. The new templates are designed for use in on-line discussion forums, I’ve provided both threaded and unthreaded templates depending on the type of discussion board you are implementing.
Work is keeping me pretty busy at the moment but I am really enjoy getting to grips with some different technology (I usually develop using ASP), I’m looking into PHP, MySQL and Zope at the moment.
Well just to say I’ve been on holiday in madrid, hence the lack of updates to the site. I do have better things to do than to post regularly while I’m on holiday. Rest assured that I am in the process of sorting through my photos etc and will no doubt be posting a few of them on the site. In the meantime take a look at the site of my new employers steam & speed. I’m going to be working for them during the summer period where i’ll be programming back end stuff in ASP. Well that’s all for now.