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Mozilla has just announced the launch date for the long awaited upgrade to Firefox 3 and it will officially be released on Tuesday 17th June 2008. There is also an attempt to set an official world record.

After a recent visit to family in India, I bumped into my niece who had a new acquisition…

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After stumbling across the new downloads section on the Microsoft website, I followed what seemed to be an interesting section called Microsoft Videos Beta.

The preview of the new embedded media player using Silverlight was visually very impressive on the landing page.

However, clicking through to a.n.other video then took an age to start running the video I had chosen. A minute or so later my display driver crashed but my wonderful laptop recovered it and back came my screen, and then I noticed that my CPU was getting absolutely hammered. Obviously to make this a fair test I did this test in IE7. So close down IE7 and as soon as it shut down, my system returns to normal speed.

Beta it may be, but I’m not impressed by this new offering from Microsoft. Traditional Microsoft bloatware based on a technology which I hope never takes off.

I’ve recently had to create a website that needed complete flexibility in the layout of the components on the page. So basically I had to implement a solution that would give the marketing teams and CMS teams completely independent control of the layout of the website without input from the HTML team.

There were two elements to this type of page:

1. The containing template
   • The layout of a page should be able to be changed with minimal changes to the HTML of that page.
2. The individual page components
   • The components hold specific types of information and can have a variety of width for each component

I won’t be dealing with point 2 in this article as that is a big write up in itself. (more…)