Seb Duggan

I've recently turned on gzip compression for all static pages on my web server running IIS6, and am now enjoying faster speeds and lower bandwidth.

However, in my investigations I came across a number of bugs in pre-SP2 IE6 (no surprises there) which means that gzipped CSS and Javascript files can be improperly cached and so intermittently mangled.

Not wanting to turn compression off just because of problems with this (thankfully declining) travesty of a browser, I hit on a way of bypassing compression for the affected browsers.

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It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post, but I’m back now and have finally got around to building a custom skin for Mango.

I expect the design may be tweaked here and there over the coming weeks; but I just wanted to get it out there to see how it looks…

I also hope to devote more time to developing for Mango now, so watch this space!

So, I've finally succumbed to the vanity of having my own blog.

I'm a freelance Web designer based near Bath in the UK, specialising in ColdFusion and Web standards development.

This will be my platform for my ramblings about ColdFusion, Web design, and anything else that takes my fancy. I hope it will be of interest to someone other than me...

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