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Naughty but nice posted 13th September 2002

Something of an exclusive: AOL are definitely moving over to the Gecko (Mozilla, Netscape 6+, etc.) engine. There’s been rumours, but how do I know for sure? Because AOL are making sure the most popular sites work with Gecko before they make the switch; remember I said we were having an occasional problem with Mozilla and multimap.com? Well, with blessing of their masters, Netscape engineers have been in touch to help fix the problem…

Very clever scrolling aerial photos of the UK (IE only). Unfortunately it ‘borrows’ Multimap’s aerial photo cache which is a tad naughty, so catch it while you can.

Seven: Netscape have released a Version 7 preview. Still based on the Gecko rendering engine driving Netscape 6 with a few added features. While we’re on the subject, for a bit of fun trying downloading on old Navigator from the browser archive at evolt.
’Ello, ’ello, ’ello: Here in the UK, Home Secretary Blunkett is pushing through proposals (“opening up a discussion”) for national identity (“social security entitlement”) cards. Let’s just state here and now that this is flawed thinking and just plain wrong. George…
Month in the life (and death) of a browser: A summary of the furore surrounding the potential capitulation of AOL and the demise of Internet Explorer.
Easier searching: Well, having implemented my own search engine for clagnut, I’ve just discovered (via Dean) that MySQL now has its own search engine built in: As of Version 3.23.23, MySQL has support for full-text indexing and searching. I suppose I should be pleased and excited that…
Mozilla is mine: I have recently come to the conclusion that, as a Windows user, Mozilla has ‘officially’ become my browser of choice. For some time now, we’ve known about its superior support for The Standards, so why has it taken me so long to change? Because at home I…