• Jun 10, 2003

  Young (and talented) web developers, designers

  Judging from this thread titled Your Age at SitePoint Forums, the web development and web design world is full of young talent. Patrick O'Keefe (iFroggy) is only 18 but runs a webhosting business, a webdesign business, and is webmaster of many popular communities. Marc James (mjames) is 17 and runs a successful sports-related site at Sports Central, among other achievements. Those are just 2 exemplary individuals who are young and are making successful web-related careers.

  I wonder - are there and prodigies that are committers or project leads of Open Source projects like those under the Jakarta project umbrella?

• Jun 7, 2003

  Sites that block Mozilla browsers - user agent switcher

  A quick update on the last post. It seems I may seem to have made Mozilla browsers seem disadvantageous in an IE-centric world. Well, you can always get past those sites that reject non-IE browsers with the User Agent Switcher extension that allows you to spoof your user agent as IE (or Netscape, or IE Mac).

  Gotta love those extensions.

• Jun 7, 2003

  Sites that block Mozilla browsers

  mmj at SitePoint Forums has pointed out a link to a page that lists websites entitled 'Sites that make Mozilla sad'. Those sites apparently aren't too interested in the Mozilla/Netscape user population, catering only to Internet Explorer users *gasp*.

  www.kingfisher.com has this to say:

  To view the full Kingfisher plc site, please install a new-generation browser,
  such as Internet Explorer 5, or Netscape 4.x. These can be downloaded free of
  charge from Microsoft or Netscape.
  A more basic text-based version of the site will also be made available
  shortly for those with older or incompatible browsers.

  Another site, pointed out by mmj,

  To protect you from certain usability and/or security issues we currently
  do not support Opera, Mozilla, earlier versions of Netscape or IE. If your
  preferred browser is not supported, we recommend that you consider
  co-installing a supported version.

  Usability and security issus? :rolleyes:

• Jun 6, 2003

  Thunderbird email client - quick update

  Just a quick update - I've since been using Thunderbird and was pretty surprised to notice that it seems to integrate with FireBird on its own. I got an email notification with a small notice box popping up at the bottom-right corner of the screen, like how it is with MSN messenger. Thunderbird was not running at the time - it does make you wonder if this can be stopped, since I didn't ask for email-polling explicitly.

  Nevertheless, I'd have to say that is pretty cool ;).

• Jun 6, 2003

  Thunderbird email client

  Just got the June 3rd build of Thunderbird for Windows. I must say it is really looking good. It's fast (loads in a split second - much faster that Outlook Express), plus it does have a Firebird-feel to it that is strangely appealing. It also allows importing of address books and mail accounts from Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora (only tested importing from Outlook Express, and it works perfectly).

  Now that Firebird is my browser of choice, I'm really looking forward to an email client that has a similar appeal, and Thunderbird will be a big player in the email client scene in the near future as I foresee it.

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