Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.

A campaign initiated by Savethedevelopers.org and it focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening the retirement of an outdated browser.

Join The Movement

If you’d like to support the cause, you may do so by going door to door urging the inhabitants of your town to upgrade their browsers. Alternatively, you can place a call to our browser detection/upgrade recommendation script on your site to show your support:

<script src="http://www.savethedevelopers.org/say.no.to.ie.6.js"></script>

I really appreciate the campaign and I joint it! IE6 "bugs" has become a really big issue when I’m developing websites.

What do you think about the campaing?

How long have you wanted to name colors and such in your CSS instead of having to use search and replace (which breaks if you share the same colors ?

Thanks to Daniel Glazman and David Hyatt we have a proposal .

@variables { CorporateLogoBGColor: #fe8d12; }

div.logoContainer { background-color: var(CorporateLogoBGColor ); }

I expect CSS Variables to receive a very positive feedback from community and browser vendors and get implemented in all browsers!

WebKit now has an experimental implementation of CSS variables : You can test this feature using a WebKit nightly.

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PHP added several magic methods in PHP5. __autoload(), however, isn’t one of them. But that doesn’t make it any less useful. In fact it’s one of the gems in PHP that I find to be relatively under used. It’s common for PHP applications to break out classes into their own files. This becomes cumbersome when working on large projects as you wind up with numerous include/require calls for any given page. There’s got to be a better way…

What can __autoload() do for you?
Did you know that PHP will call __autoload() if you try to call a function which is not yet defined? You simply have to define it and let it know where to find the class file. Let’s use my example of placing all class definitions inside a models directory with the filename being the same as the class name. Your __autoload() function may look something like this.

function __autoload($className)
{
  require_once "./models/{$className}.php";
}

// Instantiate class with __autoload()
$order = new Order();

Make your code less ugly
If you can’t spare an extra function call here or there then __autoload() may not be for you. Though I would begin to question your reasoning. The upside is that your code could become significantly cleaner and more maintainable. The upside of easy to read code often trumps everything else.

Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client.

CampaignMonitor has put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail. It comes with the PDF and Excel version for download.

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