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Firefox Breaks 10% Market Share

Firefox now has a 10.05% market share, compared with 84.7% for Internet Explorer, according to hitslink.com. Designers must stop designing for Internet Explorer only. Firefox is the way to go. Every webmaster must make his or her sites fully compatible with both browsers. This shouldn’t be too difficult. In third place is Apple’s Safari, which…Continue Reading…

WordPress has problems with correcting nested XHTML

WordPress was incorrectly “correcting” my HTML in my recent Digg this post. What I had to do to correct this is go to Options -> Writing-> uncheck WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically. I wonder if this fixes the embedding Flash problem as well or not.

Digg this post with WordPress

It finally works! I just spent nearly an hour just trying to get the “Digg this” link to work properly. I was modeling it after other “Digg this” links on other weblogs, but they all did it different ways. Sometimes it was phase=2, sometimes phase=3. Sometimes the URL was urlencode()’ed, sometimes not. Sometimes they had…Continue Reading…

Yahoo Publisher Network in the United States

Yahoo only wants US traffic for YPN, and the best way to do that is to do geotargeting on your site. I’m now doing this for Invision Plus, serving both AdSense and YPN for US visitors, and just AdSense for everyone else. Here are the instructions for geotargeting Yahoo Publisher Network ads for US visitors…Continue Reading…

Appeals of MySpace

There’s room for a competitor, but MySpace does some things well. Here are some thoughts on this post. MySpace’s users are mostly 13-25 years old. Its main appeal is that it’s sprawling out of control. News Corp is starting to reign in aspects of it. Some think this may cause its user base and visitors…Continue Reading…

Blogs can be duplicated in other formats

This comment at Micro Persuation got me thinking. What “Ne0h” suggests is that bloggers can do more to reach the “AOL crowd.” That is, the world of people who aren’t advanced Internet users, but need content handed to them. What restrictions do blogs impose, and how can we overcome them? They’re hard to read, hard…Continue Reading…