Adding proper support for Exif, IPTC & XMP data to the gallery application that powers my Eyeballism site proved a lot more tricky than could be considered healthy by any stretch of the imagination. We quickly found ourselves trying to decipher the image meta tag soup mess we’re in.

Some of the issues we encountered:

• data may or may not be present in Exif headers
• data may be present at different locations
• data may be present in different formats
• data may be present in different formats at different locations with different values

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Opera 9.20 just came out. It gives me two more items to add to my “why I use Opera” list:

• speed dial
• developer tools

Initially I was rather reserved when I learned of Opera’s speed dial feature. After all, I had bookmarks didn’t I?
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Why would anyone want to install multiple verions of Internet Explorer on a single computer? Good question. For web designers it’s not a case of “wanting” to, but more so simply “needing” to.

Microsoft does not easily allow multiple versions of Internet Explorer to run simultaneously on Windows, but it is possible with Manfred Staudinger’s work around. I have been using that solution for years now, but recently came across a resource that makes running them side by side a little easier.
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Bye bye DNS Stuff… Thanks for the good times. The site has moved on from its former business model and gone commercial. Recently it started limiting the number of queries non-registered (and non-paying) users are allowed to perform.
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Opera’s browser is great–has been for years. I prefer Opera over other browsers mainly because of the following features (in no particular order):
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