Oct 04

HOWTO: Setup Compression in IIS6 Web Server

Posted in: Software Development, Technology, Web

To enable server-wide HTTP compression

“To more efficiently use available bandwidth, enable IIS HTTP compression. HTTP compression provides faster transmission time between compression-enabled browsers and IIS, regardless of whether your content is served from local storage or a UNC resource. You can compress static files and application response files. Compressing application response files is usually called dynamic compression.” That’s great, although it’s not enabled by default! 

You could do this via the MMC IIS6 snapin, I prefer to keep things a little more simpel and efficient. The batch file below will configure IIS compression for you, simply copy and paste from below into Notepad and save as “setIISCompression.bat”. Run the batch file, done! Continue Reading…

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Oct 30

when does a browser count?

Posted in: Technology

while in a meeting today a discussion invariably took place the subject of which i am sure your familiar, at least if you are “in the business”.

Which browsers do we support and for what platform?

The usual suspects were MSIE 6 & 7, Firefox for Win & Mac.

This seems fine to me, although a little more effort goes into supporting Firefox for mac and therefore a little more time and finally a little more money is spent.

I’m not convinced 1.7% of the user base is sufficient reason enough to warrant the extra work required. I throw the question out to you. what are your thoughts about browser / platform support. what numbers and percentages motivate your companies development strategies?

J :P

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