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 …
Interesting reason for supporting IE6, although the articles lays out many more reasons why many websites are no longer supporting Microsoft's outdated browser. Not only do the numbers of IE6 user continue to be significant, the types of users seem to be desirable as well: internet n00bs that click on ads and buy what they …
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 …
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 Discussions with a number of ECM practice leads at major SIs (System Integrators) have told me …
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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. The images, since they are free copies of Windows, expire after a time, requiring you to download a new image. The latest images provided …
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 …
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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 …
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: These new features are part of Microsoft’s continuing Trustworthy Computing initiative to ensure that software …
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 …
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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! To be honest there is only one conclusion …