I was working with Zen Cart today, the open source shopping cart application, and with HTMLArea enabled, tried to paste some placeholder text into a page. I received an error about security settings in Firefox not permitting standard clipboard functions for scripts. Funny, I haven't noticed this in the past with FCKeditor or TinyMCE. Anyway, […]

Paul Thurrott, Windows expert, author and publisher of SuperSite for Windows, recently penned an article about Internet Explorer 7 for Windows IT Pro in which he says, "My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It's a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for […]

I'm considering halting support of IE 5.x on the Mac. I really can't stand the browser. It's 3 years old, buggy as hell and discontinued by Microsoft anyway. I'm tired of having to use multiple CSS hacks to make it behave. Among Mac users, there still seems to be alot of people using it though. […]

A few interesting news stories I've been watching:

Google Inc. plans to raise about $4 billion US by selling 14.2 million more shares In a typical Google approach, the exact number of shares to be sold — 14,159,265 — happens to be the eight digits after the decimal point in the value Pi.
For the first […]