A quick post before the Christmas break.

I recently came across Pearl Crescent Page Saver and I can see that it will be another useful tool to be used in 2008 when I’m working on template designs. Rather than just producing an image of what is visible on the screen, as happens with normal screenshot programs, it will include the whole of the web page. There’s also an option to run it from the command line, so it would be possible from a single command to create a batch file (or similar shell script)  to capture a range of templates that I’m working on.

I’ve found that it has been very useful for documenting the evolution of templates & I can see that it will be handy for comparing different versions (e.g. how a template looks as plain HTML/CSS pages and when it is integrated into a system, or to ensure …

After warning about the misuse of statistics, I’m likely to find myself hoist by my own petard now, but here goes…

It’s over a year since Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was released so I thought it was time to revisit the issue of browser market share, especially after the dramatic take-up of IE7 in the first few months.

However, first things first. Before getting to the detail of versions it’s worth looking at the overall market share for the browsers themselves. Over on Net Application’s Market Share site they’ve got this graph for November 2006 - 2007. You’ll see that whilst there’s some variation over the period, in general there’s not that much movement - Internet Explorer under 80%, Firefox hovering around the 15% mark, Safari reaching 5% and the rest less than 2%. The statistics collected by TheCounter for November 2007 show a roughly equivalent situation.

There’s …