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Europe has a new #1 browser

4th January 2011

According to a new report from StatCounter, it looks like Firefox has finally beaten IE – 38.11% versus 37.52% respectively – to take the top spot in Europe year-on-year by just half a percentage point.

What’s interesting to note is that the report also suggests Chrome continues its meteoric rise in gaining market share, seemingly continuing to take bites out of both Internet Explorer’s and Firefox’s user base—even whilst those two browsers grapple for the top spot.

It’ll be interesting to see if and when Chrome’s market share levels out over the next few months. With both Internet Explorer 9 and the long-overdue Firefox 4 both set to be released any week now, it could end up being a healthy three-way scrap for users.

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Zen & The Art of Coding

24th June 2010

Foreword
Apologies to our regular readers if this comes as a jolt, but I’m going tech in this one…

I’ve been using a new programming technique for markup, known as Zen Coding. It’s a combination of XPath and CSS syntax that greatly speeds up markup generation.

For example, to automatically create the following markup…

    <ul id="nav">
	<li class="tier1"><a href="#" class="tier1"></a></li>
	<li class="tier1"><a href="#" class="tier1"></a></li>
	<li class="tier1"><a href="#" class="tier1"></a></li>
	<li class="tier1"><a href="#" class="tier1"></a></li>
	<li class="tier1"><a href="#" class="tier1"></a></li>
    </ul>

…you need only type the following Zen Coding snippet:

    ul#nav>li.tier1*5>a[href="#"].tier1

It’s a really elegant, streamlined syntax and something I’ve found incredibly useful so far. It doesn’t affect your source code, because it’s just an inline helper in your editor — a bit like auto-complete in Word, or Intellisense in Visual Studio.

The best thing is that Zen Coding is available as an add-on for loads of different programs – on PC and Mac – including 3Sixty’s two favourite code editors:

  • Visual Studio
    —via a download from Codeplex
  • Komodo Edit
    —go to Tools → Add-ons and select Zen Coding from the list

You can find out more about Zen Coding over at Smashing Magazine.

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Sports Illustrated Magazine – HTML5

20th May 2010

A collaboration between TWF, Google, and SI for the Google I/O 2010 Keynote Presentation. This is very exciting.

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The great IE6 debate

25th January 2010

Even though I’m not one of the technical team at 3Sixty, I’m tech-savvy enough to know that the web browser Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) spells trouble. Many a time I’ve witnessed developers tearing their hair out having got a site to work perfectly in every other specified browser except IE6.

The issue of IE6 has come up in a few new business meetings recently, as it seems clients are still using this version in corporate environments. So with a heavy heart we need to include IE6 in the technical specification.

So the issue was on my mind when I read an article on The Guardian’s website about the use of IE6 within the NHS and came across this quote from Ed Bott in a blogpost at ZDNet:

“Any IT professional who is still allowing IE6 to be used in a corporate setting is guilty of malpractice. Think that judgment is too harsh? Ask the security experts at Google, Adobe, and dozens of other large corporations that are cleaning up the mess from a wave of targeted attacks that allowed source code and confidential data to fall into the hands of well-organized intruders. The entry point? According to Microsoft, it’s IE6.”

Ed includes a table that reinforces the point:

You get the hint! ;-)

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Brands need to add value

19th January 2010

Brands are slowly waking up to what digital gurus have been banging on about for more than 15 years i.e. brands need to provide compelling reasons for customers to interact with them online. Re-purposing content designed to work in other media rarely cuts the mustard.

The iPhone app phenomenon seems to have been the major catalyst. John Bell from Ogilivy PR latest blog looks at a few recent examples.

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Decorating the tree

11th December 2009

“And so this is Christmas, and what have we done?”  Quite a bit as it happens…

This year, 3Sixty wanted to do something a bit special for Christmas.  Something simple, quick to use and that everyone could interact with and enjoy. And the best way to achieve all of this? Social media.

Now, whilst some of you will be as sick of hearing the term as you will be of turkey on the 4th of January, it’s had an undeniable impact on all areas of life this year.  From news reporting to charity work and brand interaction, social media has propelled itself far beyond even the lofty heights of 2008′s digitally connected ambitions.

So we thought we’d do something to celebrate this, but something that would also fit the season.  The idea we came up with was the Twitmas Tree.  Anyone can post a message (or “wish” as we like to call them) on the tree and everyone else can read it.

But going a step further, we wanted the Twitmas Tree to be something people could embrace and truly make their own.  So we devised a way for the Twitmas Tree to interact with your Facebook account.  Any time one of your friends sends you a Twitmas Tree wish on Twitter, it’ll appear in your Facebook stream too.  Lovely.

We’re really proud of the Twitmas Tree and hope the web at large enjoys it this Christmas. At less than 24hrs old we’ve had almost 200 wishes posted already, in languages ranging from English to Dutch, Swedish and Spanish.  We hope you like it too.

Merry Christmas.

Posted in Branding, Design, Flash, Programming, Social Media, Social networking, Twitter, User Experience, Viral marketing | 2 Comments »

A very useful Google Maps tool

4th November 2009

I came across this page today. It lets you manually configure the parameters when embedding a Google Map from your My Maps collection and then generates the embed code for you.

 

I found the parameter for that, and amended it.

This page – http://ongopongo.com/maps/google_my_maps_embedding_tool – allows you to manually configure your Google Map embed. I hope you find it

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Sorry I missed your birthday, Internet

4th November 2009

Last Thursday, the Internet turned 40. It all started when a two character message was sent from a computer at UCLA to another computer at Stanford.
The message was “lo”. It was supposed to be a login command, but the system crashed after just two characters. Still, this was the first data message sent between two networked computers.
From that humble beginning to over one billion people online and over one trillion pages…
I’m certainly impressed, as well as wonderfully fortunate to be able to make a living by working on a few of those trillion.

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The Graphic Exchange

23rd October 2009

I’m always on the look out for inspiration and I can’t believe that I’ve never come across this resource before. Jam packed with fantastic work, separated into categories. One for the bookmarks!

graphic_exchange

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Augmented Reality

8th September 2009

Revolution looks at 10 brand examples of Augmented Reality in action and analyses each entry’s successes and short-comings.

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