It seems that Microsoft has reversed their previous decision to make Internet Explorer 8 crippled by default. They will be enabling the standards compliant mode by default in IE8, and webmasters will have to use the X-UA-Compatible header to force it into IE7 mode, for sites that can’t be updated immediately. Huzzah for progress!
And on that note, I’ll mention that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design
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Tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie8 ie7, InternetExplorer, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, webstandards
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January 23, 2008 – 9:25 am
Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test. Huzzah!
But waitaminnit… What’s this stuff about forward compatibility by adding some new X-UA-Compatible header to my pages or my server? Am I reading this right? Are you telling me that in order for IE8 to use its fully compliant rendering, we have to add something new to our pages? And that if we don’t, it will fall back to rendering pages just like IE7? Is that what this means?
That’s just dumb.
Screw their stupid “don’t break the web” motto. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design
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Tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie7, ie8, InternetExplorer, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, Stupid, wasp, webstandards
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January 4, 2008 – 10:18 pm
Late last night, I installed Firefox 3 Beta 2. I’ve been running it all day, opening and closing tabs throughout, with a peak of around 45 tabs open, and an average somewhere around 25-30.
I don’t know what they’ve done to improve the memory handling (it’s currently using 394M virtual, 161M resident, 19M shared), but the responsiveness has been awesome. In Firefox 2, my machine would have been thrashing like a dying wildebeest, slogging down the performance of every other app on the machine. [...]
September 18, 2006 – 4:41 pm
For quite a while, I had considered nuking Windows from my laptop and starting fresh. A few weeks ago, I finally took the plunge. I started with a full backup (two, actually — a file-by-file backup, and a partition image). I toyed with the idea of dual-booting, but finally decided that I’d try to go completely non-Windows, and see how well I could get by.
After hearing one of my co-workers rave about how impressed he was with Fedora Core, I was going to give that a try. But the DVD he burned for me wouldn’t install for some reason. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tech
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Tagged Firefox, InternetExplorer, Laptops, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows
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October 27, 2005 – 5:21 pm
I had recently been using Alex Robinson’s 3-column CSS technique called “ordered columns, float-margin/float-margin” for some website designs. But he has superceded that with the One True Layout. OTL combines methods for source-ordered columns, techniques for equal-height columns, and “vertical grids” to provide a flexible method of creating complex page layouts, while maintaining a minimum of markup clutter. [...]
October 13, 2005 – 12:53 pm
As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. The IE7 team has posted an article about the demise of CSS hacks and broken pages, warning that the hacks often used to target CSS specifically to work around old IE bugs may be unnecessary under IE7 when in strict mode. [...]
September 20, 2005 – 10:25 am
You can now download the Opera 8.5 web browser license-free and ad-free. Other sources are saying that this is for today only, but I don’t see any indication on Opera’s site that it’s a limited time offer…
via: Weblog Tools Collection
WordPress is now the official host and sponsor of the BrowseHappy campaign, as noted in a WebStandards Project press release.
In an effort to refocus energy on advocating for standards from a perspective of universal access and vendor neutrality, WaSP is handing over the reigns of the BrowseHappy campaign to the good folks at WordPress.
What does this mean to the average user? Not a whole heck of a lot. [...]
