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Google deprecating support for IE6?

TGDaily has an unattributed report asserting that Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based ...
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Google’s “Browser Security Handbook” published

Michal Zalewski at Google has published a "Browser Security Handbook" the goal of which is to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key ...
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Shiny CSS buttons

Drew McLellan and Brian Suda, curators of the now traditional "24 Ways" web developers advent calendar kindly asked me to write something for the 2008 edition. So, having been playing around a lot with ...
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State of the web survey closes today

Today's your last chance to do the first "State of the web" survey for web designers and developers. If you can find a few minutes to take the anonymous survey about web design and ...
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Adrian Holovaty featured in the Chicago Tribune

While these days Chicago might have an even bigger "local boy makes good" story than Adrian Holovaty, I'm happy to say that I consider Adrian one of the most incentive, and nicest people doing ...
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Cartoon characters and pornography

Last week, I drafted an article on a NSW Supreme Court decision, finding a man guilty of possessing child pornography, in the form of a cartoon depicting various members of the Simpsons family in sexual ...
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Job - Online Director at GetUp

A job that will appeal to quite a few of our readers, Online Director at GetUp, just popped up at our jobs board. We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated individual to direct the ...
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Dan Saffer on touchscreen desktops

Via the ever excellent core77, a great place to keep up with design trends and events beyond the web, Dan Saffer who'll be doing both a presentation and workshop at Web ...
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State of the Web Survey - a few days to go

There's still a few days to go to complete our State of the Web Survey - along with the well over 1,000 people who've done so so far. If you've not done so, please think ...
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Google Chrome exits beta

In what might be some sort of record for Google, Chrome, their webkit based browser, has gone 1.0 today. In our survey of web developers and designers, we asked what browsers people use, and what ...
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