Tag Archives: InternetExplorer

Internet Explorer 8: Progress!

By Dougal | Published: March 6, 2008

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. [...]

Posted in Browsers, CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design | Also tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie8 ie7, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, webstandards | 6 Comments

Internet Explorer 8: This is progress?

By Dougal | Published: January 23, 2008

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. [...]

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 | 16 Comments

Drinking the Ubuntu Kool-Aid

By Dougal | Published: September 18, 2006

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. [...]

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

IE7 and the demise of CSS hacks

By Dougal | Published: October 13, 2005

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. [...]

Posted in Browsers, CSS, Design, Standards | Also tagged CSS, Microsoft, Web | 18 Comments

Microsoft announces upcoming IE7 release

By Dougal | Published: February 17, 2005

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. . [...]