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The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:30:17 +0000

A couple of interesting things happened in the world of Web browser usage during October. The more significant one is that Internet Explorer's share of global browser usage dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade. Less significant, but also notable, is that Chrome for the first time overtook Firefox here at Ars, making it the technologist's browser of choice.

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #chrome #firefox #msie #webdev

2011: The Year of Firefox - or of Chrome? - Open Enterprise

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:19:46 +0000

"I see no reason why Chrome won't rise to above 20% in the short term. This means, of course, that the market share of Firefox and Internet Explorer will continue to drop. But as I noted some time back, this really isn't a huge problem for Firefox - although it is for Microsoft. The reason is quite simple: Firefox was never aiming at world domination, it was fighting to create an open Web where no browser held such a dominant position that it could ignore open standards and impose de facto ones instead. We pretty much have that now, with Internet Explorer increasingly standards-compliant - and proud of it, amazingly."

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #chrome #firefox #mozilla #msie #web #webdev

lojjic's PIE at master - GitHub

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:43:10 +0000

"A behavior for Internet Explorer allowing it to recognize and render various CSS3 box decoration properties"

Tags: #css #css3 #msie #webdef

universal-ie6-css - Project Hosting on Google Code

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:31:29 +0000

A universal stylesheet for IE6 that doesn't look like complete ass, no matter what the site.

Tags: #browser #css #hacks #ie6 #msie #webdesign #webdev

Built from source. » Blog Archive » Detecting plugins in Internet Explorer (and a few hints for all the others)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:32:38 +0000

"The problem is that no one quite knows what to look for when dealing with Internet Explorer’s plugins. Plugins in IE are ActiveX-based, so there’s no single API for them all—each has its own method of returning, for example, version information. What this basically means is that while Firefox and other browsers are putting all of their plugin information in one handy place, Internet Explorer is jealously guarding its plugin-related secrets. It’s like the Dick Cheney of browsers. And we are, um, the Information Security Oversight Office in that analogy. Er… let’s just jump right in with some working detection cod"

Tags: #MSFT #detection #internetexplorer #msie #plugin #plugins #webdev

Screencast: Install Internet Explorer on OSX using VirtualBox (updated X2) | 10 Volt Media Blog

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:23:10 +0000

"In this screencast I’ll show you how to set up a virtual machine for Internet Explorer 7 on OSX in about 15 minutes without spending a penny."

Tags: #msie #osx #testing #virtualbox #vm #webdev #windows

SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:50:32 +0000

"These days we are inundated with bloated web browsers that overcomplicate our lives. However, there is one eminent exception: IE6. It has been around since 2001 and is still one of the most powerful and versatile browsers available."

Tags: #ie6 #msie #msie6 #petitions #webdev

Digg - Why Internet Explorer is Better: Can Firefox do THIS? (PIC)

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:08:10 +0000

Give me a bit - I can probably code something like this up with Canvas

Tags: #bugs #msie #webdev #windows

Conditional stylesheets vs CSS hacks? Answer: Neither! — Paul Irish - Javascript, front-end web development, and hackery

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:33:29 +0000

"Using the same conditional comments, we’re just conditionally adding an extra class onto the body tag."

Tags: #conditional #css #hacks #msie #webdev

Microsoft Internet Explorer users told to switch browsers over 'zero-day' flaw | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:33:40 +0000

"Microsoft is trying to put together a patch, but in the meantime computer users have been advised to update their security settings or switch to unaffected browsers such as Firefox or Opera. ... The flaw in IE allows criminals to gain control of computers that have visited a website infected with malicious code designed to exploit it. While restricting web surfing to trusted sites should reduce the risk of infection, the malicious code can be injected into any website. Users do not have to click or download anything to become infected, merely visiting an infected website is sufficient."

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #diaf #exploits #microsoft #msie #security #zeroday

Ned Batchelder: Internet explorer mystery #1376

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:30:31 +0000

"In IE, the redefinition of really() is interpreted and used even though it is inside a block of code that is not executed. Wonder of wonders..."

Tags: #browsers #javascript #msie #webdev

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

X-UA-Incompatible - miscoded - by Hallvord R. M. Steen

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:25:32 +0000

"The cost of being compatible is again placed on IE's competitors"

Tags: #msie #opera #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

The B-List: Legacy.

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:39:56 +0000

"it stands to reason, if Microsoft is bending over backwards to keep its bread-and-butter corporate customers happy, that the IE team would suddenly get backwards-compatibility fever."

Tags: #MSFT #msie #standards #webdev