Pages Tagged “Internet Explorer”
Reviews
- Microsoft Edge ★★☆☆☆ Once you turn off all the Microsoft specials, it feels usable again – but then, it’s just another Chromium skin.
Tech Tips
- On Broken HTML From time to time the idea is put forth that less common browsers need to start dealing with bad code. There are two problems with that view.
- Pure CSS Buttons As part of a minor site optimizing kick, I replaced the validation labels with something smaller, less obtrusive, and directly on the page. I tried to duplicate the look of the classic antipixel-style buttons in CSS.
- Simple Browser Categorization (Obsolete) Sometimes you want to know exactly what software people (or bots) are using to view your website. Sometimes all you want to know is which rendering engine’s quirks you need to cater to.
- Web Design is Like Pizza A lot of pages aren’t as specific as the authors think they are. When you write code and test it on only one browser, you’re not testing that the code is correct, you’re testing that that browser makes the same assumptions you do.
- Webslices and Microsummaries (Obsolete) Both features have since been removed, but they offered and interesting way to let visitors know when a site had been updated.
Blog Posts
- Even Microsoft Hates IE6
Microsoft has jumped on the ditch-IE6 bandwagon with IE6Countdown.com. Of course, they’re taking a slightly different approach than the other campaigns.
- Links: Clouds, the Blue ‘e’, and Bobby Tables
Incredible photo from APOD: Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus. I’ve finally replaced my Woodbridge Snow photo as my desktop wallpaper at home. Microsoft provides an interesting look back at the evolution of the Internet Explorer logo over the past fifteen (yes, fifteen) years. 100-year data preservation. A 350-year-old copy of Shakespeare is still readable. But what […]
- Don’t Block Internet Explorer
At least one website is silently redirecting IE users to the Alternative Browser Alliance. Here’s why that’s not a good idea.
- Advantages of standards-based design: Compatibility
Microsoft is really pushing for people to make sure their websites and apps are compatible with IE7. Apparently this is a real concern for a lot of people who relied on certain proprietary features, bugs, and quirks in IE6. I guess they figured they wouldn’t have to worry about future versions. (Hmm… I wonder where […]
- Browser Discrimination hits IE7
I just read an interesting post from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team on The IE7 User-Agent String. This statement in particular illustrates a problem not unfamiliar to Opera users: There are a few remaining sites which fail to recognize IE7 because they are performing exact string matches to look for specific IE version strings. Those checks […]
- Know Your Enemy (Web Browser Rivalries)
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about various web browsers. Opera can/can’t do this. Firefox can/can’t do that. There’s only so much you can do to promote one product when you only know rumors or outdated facts about another. Opera users: If someone told you that Firefox was better than Opera because it doesn’t […]
- Internet Explorer: Spyware Source!
Satire: “Not only is it able to remove spyware from the system, but also the source of most spyware. Our competitors can’t match that.”