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Safari 4 – better, faster, prettier.

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:39:02 +0000

Apple has released new version of popular Safari browser. It looks great, works fast. I was pretty impressed with how fast istockphoto.com worked for me. It feels almost like either my computer got an upgrade or my internet connection got faster.
You can tell the difference specially on massive pages that use a lot of widgets, animations and transitions. I definitely recommend the browser. I was excited about the web inspector, but it still not where I’d like it to be. Firebug for Firefox still beats it for web developers.
It is great to see that browsers get more and more powerful and we just started seeing what web can do as a platform. It’s not just about pages it’s about web applications. And with advanced browsers there are less and less limits of what can be done in the browser window.

Updated to AS3

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:30:20 +0000

We updated or front page flash portfolio piece to AS3 code. It works smoother now.

IE 6 – support or not support?

admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:04:09 +0000

That’s the question on minds of many web developers these days. The debate is interesting but weird at the same time.
Dan Rubin from superfluousbanter.org thinks “It’s time to stop supporting IE6. Period.“

And I completely understand his pain and share his passion about web standards. But let’s face it – we are in business of communication. And we are not just artists for the sake of art. Many web developers are developing web solutions for clients with marketing goals. And marketing goals demand to reach certain demographics. If that demographic includes users of an older browser – that just means we have to do everything possible within our budget to reach that audience. I agree that there is a cost to that. And marketers should decide if they are willing to pay that cost or not.

My position is that we should all grow up and treat this as a business. It’s business for us and business for our clients. I know there are a lot of clueless clients that demand support of everything and everywhere. We should take initiative and educate those clients.
What we are facing now is that web is an equal player in marketing just as traditional media – newspapers, radio, TV and magazines. And just because it has smaller barriers of entrance for businesses it doesn’t mean that we should treat it as cheap or free or unprofessional.

Internet is mature and powerfull enough to generate great success for companies, individuals and political parties and I think that we need to develop mature professional market for this new media and that includes both professionals and consumers of their services and products.

Let’s support IE6 if marketing goals require that.

Site launch

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:35:10 +0000

We proudly launch our new site. It is driven by our imagination, open source technologies and our passion to stand out and get impressive results every time.

This webite is driven by Word Press. We designed and built our custom theme and tweaked some of the plugins to look and perform it’s best. Let us know what you think.