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Internet Explorer 8: Progress!

3/6/2008 – 10:35 am

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design | Also tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie8 ie7, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, webstandards | Comments (4)

Internet Explorer 8: This is progress?

1/23/2008 – 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 | Posted in Browsers, CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design | Also tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie7, ie8, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, Stupid, wasp, webstandards | Comments (16)

Drinking the Ubuntu Kool-Aid

9/18/2006 – 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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tech | Also tagged Firefox, Laptops, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows | Comments (7)

IE7 and the demise of CSS hacks

10/13/2005 – 12:53 pm

As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, CSS, Design, Standards | Also tagged CSS, Microsoft, Web | Comments (18)

Microsoft announces upcoming IE7 release

2/17/2005 – 10:33 pm

Despite previous proclaimations that there would be no new version of Internet Explorer until their next generation operating system, codenamed “Longhorn” is released, Microsoft has recently reversed that position and announced that it will be working on Internet Explorer 7, which will be more focused on fixing security problems.

Too little, too late.

The King is dead. [...]