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fligtar.com » One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:37:07 +0000

"IE8 is certainly leaps and bounds better than IE6, but neither claiming to support nor actually supporting the functionality of Firefox’s top add-ons is the best way to compete with Firefox’s add-ons ecosystem. Web slices sound delicious, but my personal opinion is that most new features of web browsers today should be implemented as add-ons and not as core features. That’s not to say I think Firefox is there, but I think we’re going in the right direction. As we like to say, one size doesn’t fit all."

Tags: #firefox #ie8 #microsoft #mozilla

QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 default behaviour

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:25:08 +0000

"Just now the IE team announced that it's reversing its policy on the default behaviour of IE8, which shows that it has been paying close attention to the discussion of its versioning proposal. I admit that I hadn't expected this reversal, but I welcome i

Tags: #ie8 #msie #msie8 #standards #webdev

IE8 To Make Tender Chickens

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:54:34 +0000

"Note: I wanted to make a crack in here about rebranding IE6 as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework but it wasn't working..."

Tags: #MSFT #ie8 #msie #webdev

Hixie's Natural Log: Mistakes, Sadness, Regret

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:23:50 +0000

"It might actually be quite an effective way of dramatically increasing the costs of entering or competing in the browser market. (This is what we call "anti-competitive", or "evil".)"

Tags: #MSFT #evil #ie8 #msie #webdev

Sam Ruby: Best Standards Support

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:23:32 +0000

"Accordingly, I’ve implemented the following in my .htaccess file"

Tags: #MSFT #apache #ie8 #standards #webdev