Archive for March, 2011

OpenText Content Days

This year’s OpenText Content Days will take place on April 5th/6th in Munich and for the first time in London on April 7th/8th. OpenText (Enterprise Content Management) is a key technical specialism for id media and the Content Days are an excellent opportunity to meet to discuss projects and exchange experiences.

The Content Days focus on topics such as the Web Content Management, actual Delivery Server and CMS-Solutions for intranet, extranet, websites and portals. It is a forum for knowledge transfer between clients and partners of the OpenText Website Management Group, as well as between technology providers and those who are interested in Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

This years OpenText clients and partner conference in Germany is taking place on the 5th and 6th April at the Hotel Dolce Unterschleissheim in Unterschleissheim, near Munich. And for the first time, there will be the Content Days in the UK, taking place on the 7th and 8th April, at the Twickenham Stadium near London.

Munich | London

http://www.opentext.de/3/global/events-contentdays-munich
http://www.opentext.com/2/global/events-contentdays-london

Thoughts on IE 6

We pride ourselves on being an agency that delivers exceptional creative design for the online environment. We’ve been doing this for years; for some of the biggest brands around the world.

For all these years, our beautiful designs have been taken by our technical team and transposed into a language that web browsers can interpret in order to render these amazing designs to our users across all the different browsers and platforms.

And we’ve thoroughly enjoyed doing this. We’ve loved it – we still do. It’s what makes us all tick. Delivering these beautiful designs.

But the thing that has made us happiest recently is Microsoft’s objective of ridding the world of IE6. Hallelujah. Praise be to the browser god. Thank the Lord!

For so long this toad of a browser – this software abomination lurking around like a bad smell – has blighted our studio. It has put boundaries on our designers, limitations on our technical team, red faces on our PMs and testers. It has single-handedly put stress into our days and in some cases fragmented relationships in our teams. Screw you IE6!

But no more! Never again will we need to use the phrases ‘IE6 workaround’, ‘IE6 hack’, ‘graceful degrading in IE6′, ‘lack of support for PNG alpha-transparency’. We can go back to concentrating on our designs and writing proper HTML and CSS without that nagging thought in the back of our minds.

You’re history IE6. History!

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