Microsoft should release IE6 as a single-site browser

Internet Explorer 6 is still out there. In large numbers.

Often the reason given is that the corporate sector is tied to it through intranets and other applications that rely on it.

So, why not release IE6 as a single-site browser (SSB), like Mozilla's Prism for example?

1. Corporates can run their intranets via the IE6 SSB


2. The general-use browser can then be updated to the latest version (IE8), which has to make security easier for their IT department


3. Microsoft can then officially drop support for IE6, and only need to support the SSB in its corporate environment


4. The rest of us can breathe a sigh of relief as we watch IE6 usage fall rapidly!

It seems like a simple solution to me, but perhaps it's not that simple. Otherwise Microsoft would have done it already. Yes?

Snow Leopard Exchange Support

I'm holding my breath regarding Microsoft Exchange support in Apple's new OS10.6 Snow Leopard.

You see, I dropped using my PC altogether about a week ago. Well, almost. I still have to remote into my server and use Outlook that's installed there, as we rely on Exchange for our email and calendar.

Which is a bit of a nuisance, as any links clicked in the mail open up in IE on the server inside the Remote Desktop window. And saving attachments? Sheesh.

So apparently my copy of Exchange-supporting Appleness is being shipped on Friday.

I really hope it "cuts the mustard". I'll post my thoughts here once I've installed it!

Displaying a gallery description using NextGen Gallery for Wordpress

Been battling with the excellent NextGen gallery plugin for Wordpress this afternoon.

I had created an Album, which is a container for mutiple Galleries. Simple enough. But then, once you had selected a Gallery, I wanted to display the Gallery description on the Gallery page above the thumbnails.

In the Manage gallery section you can type a description, but it didn't seem there was any way to display that on the actual website.

So if you need to, open the file gallery.php which is inside the plugins directory, nextgen-gallery/view/gallery.php

Next, above the line
<div class="ngg-galleryoverview" id="ngg-gallery-<?php echo $gallery->ID ?>">
add this:
<h2><?php echo $gallery->title; ?></h2>
<p class="gallery-desc"><?php echo nl2br($gallery->description); ?></p>

This will give you an H2 with the Gallery Title, and then the description below it.

EasyPHP 3 and mod_rewrite gotchas

Just got a new server in the office so updated to the latest EasyPHP - version 3. However, all was not smooth:

1. At first I kept getting a "permission denied" error - you'll need to search the httpd.conf file for the <Directory /> container and get rid of Deny from all. (Or at least comment it out, anyway.)


2. The mod-rewrite wouldn't work. Two steps to fix this:
   
   
   
   1. Search httpd.conf for mod_rewrite and uncomment the LoadModule line.
   
   
   2. Search for AllowOverride. There should be two instances where you need to change None to All. (Source)
   
   
   
   

Now I can get back to work!