While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8.  The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built.  At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a redirect that is part of the authentication step.  The culprit code was something like:

Interesting reason for supporting IE6, although the articles lays out many more reasons why many websites are no longer supporting Microsoft's outdated browser.

This super-early look at Internet Explorer baffles me. The biggest benefit they tout is using the DirectX APi to use hardware acceleration for rendering web pages faster. This is like buying me a faster processor and then giving the credit to IE when pages load faster as a resutl.

Wouldn't a good Window Manager offload that work so that applications don't deal with it? It must be the only way to catch up to Chrome on Linux.

Wow, looks like at least one of my hunches wasn't too far off the mark. Who'd have thought that the Microsoft Marketing hype might have a hard time delivering? I can think of at least two people. HT Gadgetopia

I've written before about using Microsoft's IE Application Compatibility Images with VirtualBox. These images provided a very convenient, and free, way to setup testing environments in all versions of Internet Explorer.

There are a lot of cases where having one computer just isn't enough. If you're a web developer or webmaster, you'll want to view your website in more than one browser. If you're a PHP programmer, you may be itching to check out the new 5.3 release and test your web applications on it. Using virtualization, you can set up self-contained instances of any Operating System configured to your heart's content on your computer.

Will we see more organizations outsourcing email services? Having run my own personal mail server for a few years, I'd be quite wary of purchasing and operating your own mail servers. Yes, if you own your mail servers, you can make them as secure and redudant as you want if price is no limit. But there's always a budget, and it will always not be enough to provide the uptime, redundancy, and backups that someone like Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft can provide.

Surfing on the sly with IE8's new "InPrivate" Internet

These new features are part of Microsoft's continuing Trustworthy Computing initiative to ensure that software and websites respect the user's privacy.

I might be a bit paranoid, but shouldn't that read:

In any field, people have heard that its better to spend the time to fix the root cause of a problem than to just address the symptoms. It's not just common sense, but it costs lest in the long run too. You'd think the largest software maker in the world, would have this drummed into their collective brain by now, but you'd be wrong.

Much like my dad has done, another Windows Vista customer has "upgraded" a Vista machine to Windows XP.  So, I guess the PR Lady was somewhat correct? BTW - annoying that apple doesn't let you link directly to one of its ads -- its free advertising, mactards!