Posts Tagged ‘Internet Explorer

The last two days of using Chrome have had me thinking about the purpose of the Web browser in today’s world. I’ve talked about how Chrome and Firefox have changed how we see browsers, treating them as interactive windows into our daily life, rather than the uncontrolled end of an information firehose.
These applications, that on [...]

So, Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 8 later this year, and a Beta is available now.
The question is, are you ready for it?
Internally, the tech savvy folks (myself included) have been tossing around the football of how to tackle it. The leap from 2 to 6 connections per host, on top of the basic rendering [...]

Dear Apache Software Foundation, and the developers of the Apache Web server:
I would like to thank you for developing a great product. I rely on it daily to host my own sites, and a large number of people on the Internet seem to share my love of this software.
However, it appears that you seem to [...]

I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]

I installed IE7 Beta 2 tonight. It lasted 15 minutes.
What ended its stay? Opening a new tab crashed the application.
Let me know when: It. Just. Works.
There is likely some secret squirrel hack that fixes this. I don’t want to hear it. An application at this level of pre-release development should not encounter a bug as [...]

Go sign the position asking eBay to make their Web site open standards compliant, instead of Microsoft-compliant. [here]
Via: Mozillazine

A colleague in Germany forwarded me this interesting Microsoft knowledgebase article.

Internet Explorer May Lose the First 2,048 Bytes of Data That Are Sent Back from a Web Server That Uses HTTP Compression
This appears to only happen if another program registers (Real8 Download is the example given in the KB article) to use some of the [...]

Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]

MSIE 7.0

In: RANTING

15 Feb 2005

That is not a typo. The great man spoke the words today. [here and MSFT Press Release and here and here and here and here
and here and here]
Will it be better…?

The quote:
Building on those advancements, Gates announced Internet Explorer 7.0, designed to add new levels of security to Windows XP SP2 while maintaining the level [...]

Why Standards Matter

In: smp

31 Jan 2005

Here is another reason why standards matter.
Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, challenged his entire company to
migrate to Linux for their desktop systems by the end of this year.
Turns out things aren’t going so well.
IBM is running into this one tiny little problem. You may have heard
of it, it’s called Internet Explorer. See, many internal [...]


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