James Oppenheim’s blog

What does a website say about a political party, who knows? With the Victorian state election coming up in a couple of days I decided to check out what each party use for their CMS. Really interesting results that I think sum up each of the political parties social bents quite nicely:

• Greens (http://vic.greens.org.au) use Drupal
  Suggesting openness, freedom of expression, passionate sometimes to the point of ridiculous while being just a bit nerdy
• Liberals (http://www.liberalvictoria.org.au) use the .NET framework
  Suggesting proprietary and very trusting of large organisations, too expensive and somewhat over complicating simple needs (framework for CMS?). They don’t even cater for the old battlers:
  “We see you’re still using IE6. For better experience with our site, we suggest you to upgrade your browser to IE8”
• Labor (http://www.alpvictoria.com.au) use Community Engine
  Suggesting specialised fluff with no real substance. Most likely too expensive, but can’t disclose budgets

What do you think?

Technorati Tags: CMS, Victorian Election, Greens, Liberal, Labor

Here is a fun IE CSS bug:

“In IE an absolutely positioned box sometimes disappears when in the source code it is the previous or the next sibling of a float”

After successfully tracking down this bug a couple of months ago I released that I had come across it before. This time so I don’t forget I will post it here. There needs to be a surrounding / separating div between the two elements to stop this.

Some interesting reading on the topic so we can all spot this bug when it comes up next:

1. http://www.brunildo.org/test/IE_raf3.html
2. http://www.brunildo.org/test/IE_raf3.pl

Technorati Tags: CSS, Web Standards, Internet Explorer, IE

Australian Web Week has been born, this year from October 2 - 9. There is not much on at the moment, however, give it a couple of years and I think it will be a really exciting time for the Australian digital industry. Taken from the Australian Web Week website (http://webweek.com.au) the week involves:

…the best of the Australian web industry - sites and applications, designers and designs, innovative Australians taking it to the world. Over ten days professionals across the industry from around the country and the from around the world will come together to connect, learn and celebrate the strength of the Australian web industry.

Technorati Tags: Australian Web Week, Web