I’ve always enjoy reading plasticbag.org and one of the post was on OpenID. As quoted from his blog.

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OpenID—fundamentally—is a solution to the problem of having a million user accounts all over the place. Instead of getting hundreds of user names all over the place you go to a site that provides OpenIDs and choose one username and password. These sites then give you a pretty simple web address which is probably easiest to think about as a profile page for you. Then when you want to sign into any other site on the Internet with an OpenID all you do is type in the address of this profile page. The site you’re on wanders over to that address, the other site asks you for your password, you tell it your password and then you’re bounced back to the original site where you are logged in and can get on with your business unfussed. Sometimes the local site will ask you if you want a different user name. That’s all there is to it.
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What strike me is that the Singapore government started one sign in function for all of their government portal long before this OpenID concept came about. Something simple yet no one really start to think about it in bigger scale until OpenID.

Check out plasticbag.org for more.

We all know that Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7 but for most (or nearly all) web designers and developers like us, rushing to upgrade to IE 7 can be quite a problem. Their inability to run IE 6 and 7 concurrently would make it difficult for designers and developers to check their work and make sure everything runs smoothly on both IE 6 and 7. But with more and more public users starting to upgrade to IE 7, we do not have much of a choice but to find a solution which will allow us to upgrade to IE 7 and still be able to run IE 6. One solution is to install IE 7 on one test machine but if you are a web designer, you will know how painful that can be!

tredosoft.com found a nice way of running IE 7, 6, 5.5, 5, 4 and 3 together. Yes! You read that right! So to all web designers and developers out there, what are you waiting for?

NOTE: Use this software at your own risk. We are not the developer of this software, so all credit should go to tredosoft.com

For Windows Vista users, sorry… this software will not work on VISTA.

There has been a lot of talk about web standards and the benefits they bring to web design and applications. We thought we could post this up to see what it really means to web designers and developers out there (or anyone who believes in WS). So tell us what web standards mean to you in a word or short sentence (no essays please).

We start the ball rolling…

Simplicity

Well, recently Microsoft lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way IE is going to display objects and embeds in web pages. Those who have Flash, QuickTime and etc on their website suddenly find that their visitors need to activate the plugin before IE start playing them. Especially those who uses Flash for their navigational, their user need to activate the Flash before the navigational work. This is starting to be such a pain but I’ve found a way to solve this problem. To fix the problem, please follow these steps:

1. Just below the last <object> in your HTML page, insert the following Javascript:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="fixit.js"></script>

2. Open a new document in Notepad or your HTML editor, and copy & paste the following content into it:

   theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
    theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}

3. Save this file as fixit.js

Thanks to Mix-FX for the solution.