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The Frames Problem

As the Internet birthed and quickly started evolving we developed a system called 'frames' to build websites from. And just as we all adopted the method into our websites we just as quickly realised the fatal flaws in the concept and started digging them back out.

E-mail, blogs, social networking are all about to be revolutionalised. Google has decided it's time to rethink the 40 year old electronic communication protocol we know as e-mail and give it a 21st century approach.

Google Wave will be released later this year, but if you can't wait to see what Google has in their bag, check out the Google IO demo.

There is a lot of confusion and misconceptions about "redirects" on the web. Many assume there are only two methods of redirects: a 301 and a 302 - but there are in fact 7 different ways to redirect from the server side, and of course the notorious client-side redirect methods such as JavaScript.

When developing solutions for the online world, it's important to know how your customers are interacting with your services before you even begin. Many developers enter this blind, making assumptions or just ignorantly.

As Internet Explorer 8 is just around the corner with the RC1 beta already available for download, we all need to make preparations for the new browser which will be released with Windows 7 or as an update to XP and Vista.

IE8 yet again attempts to comply with web standards, but this means yet another browser to optimise for. Fortunately Microsoft gave us a cheap way out with it's X-UA header allowing us to revert to IE7 standards.