Yes, the findings are finally here, it’s an 82 pages pdf doc, so I’ll take some spare time this weekend to read it.
The team of A List Apart has posted the raw data in case you want to rise your own conclusions.
I’ve just read this Jeffrey Zeldman’s article about E-mail design an the good reasons not to do so.
I wholeheartedly agree with him.
This is a test for web professionals carried out by A List Apart.
If you are a web professional, please take it, I just did.
Maybe it has been said too much about this matter, but I’d like to share my opinion on it.
As most of the developers/designers out there, I started web development using the regular and common tool. Recently I gave a try to CSS2Edit, and after two weeks using it I just bought it. Is an excellent tool for the creation of CSS, I strongly recomend it (Sorry Windowz users, you can’t have it, it’s only made for Mac because it’s based on WebKit, the rendering engine that Safari uses).
The other wonderful piece of software that I’ve been trying is TextMate, which is a really powerful text editor. I find myself using it daily and I’m planning to buy a copy this week. it handles almost every known programming language currently used, and it has a very active plug-in and bundles building community. I will write more about these two monsters in further post.
As a bottom line, I’m seriously thinking in not buying the long awaited next generation UB of Dreamweaver.
I’ve just installed the inlineRSS plugin from iconophobia to put my Simpy bookmarks here
Trying to display chinese text in a PHP script from a MySQL DB, proved to be more tricky than i thought, using phpMyAdmin i was able to insert an edit chinese text in a db which has a ‘utf8_general_ci’ charset, but when i tried to show that text in a php page the only thing i’ve got was a long string of question marks.
Searching for a solution on the internet, i found this solution in a comment in php.net
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'", $conn);
Placing this just before the query did the trick!
As a web developer these are good news, I had a lot of trouble supporting it, but it seems that Microsoft and Apple are getting far away from each other…
This text is from the Microsoft site
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC USERS
In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates.
Additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac will no longer be available for download from Mactopia. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple’s Safari.
24 ways: Avoiding CSS Hacks for Internet Explorer
Its time to clean up our code…