RANTS

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Firefox 3 and it's fatal flaw

23rd June 2008

Yes it's new, yes it's pretty; but as a developer it has one very annoying 'feature'. It is determination to use a cached version of the page your on regardless of the number of times you hit apple+r, the refresh button or ctrl+r (for you windows people).

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BBC iPlayer vs UK ISPs - Network Contention

09th April 2008

This story really wound me up. ISPs attitude to its responsibilites has been a sore point for some time with me; ever since my online gaming days of Earth & Beyond, CS and the like network contention has been a sticky issue.

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IE 6 Bug - Repeating Characters

01st February 2008

After coming across this really annoying bug many times I thought it was about time I made a note of it somewhere. When you starting mixing floated containers with non floated containers the IE 6 only parameter hasLayout triggers to -1 causing all sorts of chaos in your layout; most notabley tail characters repeating themselves.

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IE8 Stupidity

24th January 2008

Maybe I spoke to soon when I congratulated the IE8 development team on creating a browser capable of passing Acid2 as it now looks as though they have thrown away all their hard work be being stupid.

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Bulldog Broadband

12th December 2006

Having endured many months of problems getting things connected and accounts activated (take a look at my earlier rant about utilities) I had become accustomed to pathetic customer services.

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