Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Software| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
6 Jun 2007Dear 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 [...]
In: Software| Technology
2 May 2006I 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 [...]
In: smp
4 Oct 2005Go sign the position asking eBay to make their Web site open standards compliant, instead of Microsoft-compliant. [here]
Via: Mozillazine
In: smp
30 Sep 2005A 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 [...]
In: smp
30 Apr 2005Web 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 [...]
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 [...]
In: smp
31 Jan 2005Here 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 [...]
In: RANTING
13 Dec 2004The MSN Toolbar Suite is out. But not in this house.
Get it now! Free!
Warning! Your browser does not meet the minimum system requirements. You are recommended to use the MSN Toolbar Suite with Internet Explorer 5.01 or later.
Gee, you need to integrate it with MSIE…NOT! Anyone out there going to build a desktop search app [...]
In: smp
2 Dec 2004Tristan Nitot and Eric Meyer comment (Tristan : Eric) on the seeming resistance by Microsoft to move MSIE towards a greater degree of W3C Standards support.
As a hack and slash Web developer, the presence of standards is a necessity for me. I can read the W3C description of the <div> tag and it’s child attributes [...]