It was sunny and nice today, so I decided to buy a bicycle and explore the city. London seems to be 90% uphill, I know that now.

When I came back I got an email from my ISP about a possible Virus infection, although I got AVG Free Edition running. I checked with the Symantec online checker, and suprise surprise, some trojans were there. Now I ordered my suite and feel like asking Microsoft to sponsor it. The only reason I deal with this crap instead of installing linux and get it over with is that my visitors and clients do use windows, and I need to replicate their environment to see where bugs occur. Now, as Microsoft is able to sell the most, partly because the OS is so easy to extend with some programming knowledge, they should also pay for us to keep it secure. Personally I really don’t see why anyone would write a virus for Windows, other than getting money for it or working for an antivirus company. There is no challenge to it…

There is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek comparison of Fx and MSIE on BBSpot. For a change, it does not compare the technicalities of the two browsers, but the things that really matter, like the stereotypical users and if it can help you to get laid.

I just looked at the new Rammstein web site www.rammstein.com and was quite impressed by the way it deals with different browser sizes. Resize your browser window to see what I mean. Nicely done, that.

One of our clients complained that our print stylesheet doesn’t work as the backgrounds don’t get printed.
This is a setting of the browser, not a CSS issue. In MSIE, it is part of the Advanced Options of the Internet Settings:

In Firefox, it is an option in the File – Page Setup dialogue:

[tags]printing, webdevtrick[/tags]

Microsoft seem to feel some of the pressure web standard and accessibility awareness created, and published a new version of MSN.com that does not use any tables for layout. While there are still a lot of validation errors, and it gives the impression that CSS-P needs to be blander than table layouts (they ditched a lot of images and screen furniture), it is nice to see Microsoft at least try to follow a standard they haven’t established.