Dave's Den

I've been working a bit on the site this week, trying to optimize some of the infrastructure and make a few visual upgrades. I've expanded the width of the site to assume at least a 1024 pixel browser width and have done some work on the top banner and page background. I've also condensed some of my CSS. These changes should make for slightly faster page loads.

For the most part, things have turned out well, but IE users may notice a few hiccups, especially IE6 users. I won't get started on my anti-IE rant again, but just be aware there are some known issues right now. I'll see what I can do to address them.

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I've been a big fan of the Duplicate Tab add-on for Firefox 2. It lets you right click on a tab and duplicate it (with history) to a new tab. I've used it constantly, and was bummed to see that it has yet to be updated for Firefox 3 compatibility. That's the bad news. The good news is that the Firefox 3 beta has this functionality built-in! All you have to do is hold down the CTRL key and drag your tab to an open position in the tab bar. Very slick, and no more add-on required.

UPDATE 8/6/2008: I see the add-on has been updated for Firefox 3. It adds a couple of extra features over the CTRL key method, but I think I'm just going to stick with the default functionality for now. It does what I need without having the overhead of an add-on.

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Today TechCrunch posted an article on Save the Developers, a site which is out to rid the web of it's biggest headache: IE6. They provide a bit of Javascript you can put on your pages that will detect this sorry excuse for a browser and prompt you to download something more recent. Great idea (at least it can't hurt).

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