Supporting IE 6 means slower progress, less progress, and, in some places, no progress.

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008

This move some how reminds me when Steve Jobs announced he will drop Power PC's and use Intel, every body was waiting for the G5 PowerBook etc... so what to do is to sacrifice something to gain other alot of things.

As an HTML/CSS coder I understand how much pain they pass through to get there interfaces work with IE 6, and I understand to achive some experiences they don't have other choice than to drop IE 6 support.

It will be nice if there interfaces doesn't crash on IE 6 only some options and additions don't work, but if there's no way but to crash the interface onIE 6 they don't have other choice, only a message stating the cause of the problem and showing the links of IE 7, FireFox & Safari, will be nice, I'm sure 37signals understands that perfectly.

Living web sites that grow, develop and evolve to suit the taste of the people that read them are now finding their way on to the internet.

Roger Highfield - Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'

According to the article scientists at Creative Synthesis are evolving a software that tracks the behavior of a visitor and what attracts him and what's not to improve the site experience for each visitor, by every refresh of a page features changed.

This is an awesome new technology that can enhance user experiences very much, can you imagine, tracking a visitor day by day, see what he uses the most what's not, and focus on what he needs the most, The more you use the site the more it gets to know you and adapt more to your needs.

Once the blog went live, control of the design was out of their hands.

Roger Highfield - Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'

That is really awesome, I didn't see real application of that yet but if it is applied nicely, it will be a revolution in user experience, I mean by applied nicely not to surprise the user by every refresh with different navigation position, links switched, headers or links colors changed, etc....

The transition should be done gradually so the user adapt to it smoothly, I guess people at Creative Synthesis are smart enough to already know what I'm saying, and I hope we see an application of this technology out in the wild, see how far will it get.

A war between Idealists & realists running on Mars, who will win?

There first project is great, its objective is to move old books that contains old, harmful information about the web from the libraries shelves to the archives, go on make your mark.

And don't forget to add there button to your site. linking to http://streetteam.webstandards.org.

That's all for today, C U soon.

Give it a try you will not regret it, the application costs $29.95 but you can try it for free, you will not be able to save files with more than 2500 characters, sorry windows users this app is for macs only.

Abdelrahman send the whole web greetings from the disconnected part of the world and hoping to see you soon after some body plug the cable.

Update (30/1/2008): Abdelrahman can see some sites, but most of the sites are not working out there.

Update (31/1/2008): Hello it's me, I can access the net now, maybe they did any temporary solution, or maybe it's only because I'm accessing the net from office, yesterday I was trying to access from home, the news here and there about the problem.

There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.

BBC

In case if you don't know, Eric Meyer considered to be the top of the industry of CSS, He wrote alot of books including "Eric Meyer on CSS" and "More Eric Meyer on CSS" and alot more.

Any way I don't think I will use Meyer's Sculptor, I enjoy hand coding every bit of CSS on my DreamWeaver code view.

Ofcourse I get different reactions from "WOW" to "Excuse me, is that a site!", but what really may be a point of discussion is the choice of colors, I always get confused by how various people are in color tastes.

I always thought about this, why people are so different in color tastes? why do some people may adore a design color selections and others hate it?

All my life I've been thinking of this till I get to something and this is what I wanted to say from the beginning after all this introduction, please don't think I'm nuts.

I thought maybe every person see colors differently, for example what you see green I see red or what you see light grade of blue I see it very bluish like the blue in RGB, so now you thinking how do I get to this? why do I think that different eyes see different colors? I tell you why, remember back when your teacher first teach you colors how do she do it? she hold a red card in her hands and said this is red, then a blue card this is blue etc... so every child get in his head that this color is red and that is blue, after class a kid said I like blue color the other said I like green.

I'm not trying to prove something here, I'm just saying why not, maybe my theory is right, how will we know if we see colors differently or not, maybe there is kind of scientific research or something about this issue I don't know maybe scientist could prove or disprove this, but I'm speaking away from science and scientists.

By the way I like orange so much, maybe you see it as big lemons I don't know but I still like it.

Other good news is that Leopard which is the all new mac OS will be there by October with great new features like new improved Finder, Spaces & Time Machine which could be a life saver in case of losing files etc..

Other news is that apple changed it's site main layout specifically the navigation I see it alot better now the new navigation is alot more usable, it looks like it's done using CSS & JavaScript which makes it highly accessible. I only wish they could make a liquid layout I have to stretch my browser all the screen width to get rid of the horizontal scroll.

Enjoy