Chrome is already beating Opera in browser market share. While Chrome isn’t bad and I like it alot, I think that’s pretty crazy.
Firefox, on one hand, is a whole different ballgame. It’s huge, has a hugely popular plugin architecture, open source, etc. It’s the big papa of the standards-compliant crew, in direct opposition with IE.
Mac and XP users get all the love. How many times have you used a font family like Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif? Look familiar? With articles like Christian Montoya’s floating around, more and more designers are adding Vista-only fonts to their stylesheets. And yet, nobody is throwing anything in for Linux users, instead relying on the generic fallback to handle it.
I’ve always been a proponent of reset stylesheets. Jonathan Snook made an almost convincing argument against them a few months ago, which was backed up by Jens Meiert quite well.
For those who aren’t familiar with Java for the web, there’s a (quite popular) flavor known as JSP which transforms Java into a web-based language. By inserting bits of Java code into HTML pages (much like how inline PHP works), the possibilities become endless. And as a result of Java’s strong object oriented tendencies, it becomes easy to make your own MVC architecture by having a “models” package which contains all the classes with DB interaction, and a “controllers” package which contains all of the files which do processing to display on the page. Since Java is such a powerful language, this seems like a winner. And it may be.
BlueTrip.org has been doing pretty well for itself, even in it’s incomplete state. However, one of the things that it is completely lacking in is some method of communication and collaberation. The uber simple but reporter really isn’t built for that. I’ve always hung tight to the ExpressionEngine forum module so I don’t have much experience with standalone scripts. So it’s time to find a good forum.
My only requirements: PHP and MySQL, really simple, outputs valid code, and easy to theme. So far, the only options I’ve found are punBB, flexBB, and SMF, though I’m sure there are others. However, I happen to know that anybody who reads this blog must be brilliant, so anybody care to drop some knowledge?