Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Tomorrow morning, at 09:00 PDT, Microsoft unleashes IE 8.0 on an unsuspecting Internet.
By 12:00 PDT, the number of Web sites having to put up IE 7.0 only stickers will be in the millions.
I haven’t done a lot of testing of the new monster (I mainly use Firefox on Mac OS 10.5.6), but it doesn’t seem [...]
In: Blogging| Browsers| Web analytics| analytics
14 Mar 2009Here are the browser stats for Newest Industry as of March 14 2009. Not a large amount of traffic, but it is indicative of what most folks with technical content on their blogs likely see.
What did surprise me was the number of people who are still using MSIE 6.0. I am not sure what is [...]
Last fall it was Chrome. Now it’s Safari 4 Beta. Soon it will be Firefox 3.1 and IE 8.
Each browser has its harsh critics and fervent supporters. But in the end, does the browser really matter?
The answer to this question depends on who you speak to. Developers will say yes, because browsers make their lives [...]
In: Architecture / Design| Blogging| RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
22 Feb 2007Did we mention that the layout doesn’t work in Firefox or MSIE 7?
Oooops.
Technorati tags: Dwell, css, design, firefox, msie 7
Apparent using HTTP compression alongside HTTP/1.1 will cause certain versions of MSIE 6.0 to implode. [here]
I personally think this was because the NSA power shortage was making it too hard for the spooks to snoop on compressed Web traffic. [here]
Via: Port80 Software
PS: No, I won’t turn off compression because Microsoft did something really stupid.
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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
26 Sep 2005I have been making some changes to this blog and MSIE continues to gibble the CSS layout.
Well, too bad for them.
Get a real browser.
This blog no longer supports MSIE <= 6.x.
In: smp
5 Sep 2005Tim Bray makes a comment on the new MSIE exhibit at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.[here]
Yummy geek humour.
In: smp
1 Sep 2005Looks like today is the day I either swap out my laptop for a new one or re-build this one from scratch (or a disk image). MSIE does not retrieve pages anymore, and I have been using this machine for nearly 9 months and the registry is likely a complete mess.
Mmmmm…love that shiny, new install [...]
Google Chrome: See No Evil, Do No Evil – An Internet Performance Perspective
In: Commentary| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org
1 Sep 2008The intertubes of the Web are abuzz with talk of the new, open-source Google Chrome browser [two articles here and here]. I will not presume to wade into the debate of whether it is necessary, or what strategic business goals Google has set that rely on having its own browser. I will limit my comments [...]