Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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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 [...]
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25 Aug 2005Ok, I will admit to using MSIE for one thing: Outlook Web Access.
I am at a hotel in Minneapolis where
I have to pay $9.95/day for wireless access
They block my VPN access to the Exchange server
So, I fire up MSIE and start getting weird errors. And other things go wrong when new windows get opened.
Looks like [...]
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19 Apr 2005All:
The browser doesn’t matter anymore. So get on with it, and develop something interesting.
M. David’s rant.
I use browsers in this order:
Firefox: 60%
FeedDemon: 25%
MSIE: 10%
Opera: 5%
I am likely not alone. FeedDemon is my RSS reader and it is built on MSIE. Firefox is used for browsing, and I don’t do much of that anymore. Opera is [...]
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16 Mar 2005I like the way Hakon Wium Lie thinks. He and the Web Standards Team have come up with a browser ‘acid test’ called ACID2.
I seriously hope the the MSIE7 team takes up the challenge. No designer should have to design for a browser; they should design to the standards.
From C|Net. [here]
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2 Mar 2005Standblog tells Microsoft the same thing that I did: stick to the standards. [here]
In: RANTING
18 Feb 2005Looks like Firefox could become the genesis of the private-label browser, unencumbered by nasty platform/OS/Service Pack limitations. [here -- courtesy of the XSLT:General blog]
I believe strenously that Microsoft has committed a serious error in limiting the upcoming MSIE 7 update to Windows XP SP2 machines. It will not drive the large corporate IT departments who [...]
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17 Feb 2005Oh yeah! Forgot this little tidbit…MSIE 7.0 will ONLY be available for Windows XP SP2. [here]
So, all of those organizations (you know, the large corporate ones) which run Windows 2000: Tough Luck.
In: smp
16 Feb 2005Jeremey Wright hints at some of the features we might/will see in MSIE 7.0. [here]
Again, composition and design standards are important; but do not forget the networking standards as well. It will take a lot for me to switch back to MSIE, but it would be good to if the Internet doesn’t have to design [...]
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 [...]
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14 Feb 2005After linking to a group of articles on MSIE and interoperability [here], there comes this post that speculates on a MSIE update pre-Longhorn. [more here and here and here]
My guess: They have to, and they know it. They have to do something to make the browser lighter, faster, and more secure. And they know it [...]