Category: 'Internet Explorer'
The Orange Icon..
Posted on Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
You know the one that signals a webfeed (formerly known as RSS or Atom). Over at Microsoft they’re pondering what new icon they should pick. Mind you, this single icon will be viewed by millions of upcoming IE 7 users. So all you usability guru’s, web designer, graphic designers, … if you have an alternative [...]
Posted in Atom, Browsers, Design, General, Internet Explorer, News, RSS, Webdesign, Webfeeds | No Comments »
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta vs Web Developer toolbar extension
Posted on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
“Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery.” Or so they say. But I don’t know if this holds true when the imitating party is… Microsoft. Sorry Chris, it’s about time to move on to greener pastures. Why the sarcasm? Well, Microsoft released a beta of their Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer. So? Well, that’s what I [...]
Posted in Browsers, Development, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, Intranet, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | 5 Comments »
Opera giving away their browser for free
Posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
You could have gotten a free copy of Opera on their 10th birthday already. But if you’ve missed that opportunity there’s some great news from Norway. Opera announced today it will be offering Opera for free! No more ad-banners and licensing fees. They will only charge you money for Premium Support. “Today we invite the [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, News, Opera | 4 Comments »
IE7 UserAgent string
Posted on Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Is it (Apart from being spoofed) ?: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Except for the .NET stuff… IS IE7 dependant on the .NET Framework? Just some thoughts… Anyhow, anyone building around a useragent-string isn’t doing the right thing.
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Firefox: Europe beats North America
Posted on Friday, July 29th, 2005
According to French market analysis company XiTi the market share of Firefox in Europe is 14.11%. Market share in North America is only 11.78%. But Australia takes the lead with 14.41%. Zooming in on Europe, the leading country is Finland with a staggering 31.03% followed by Germany with a 24,5% market share. All in all, [...]
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IE 7 Beta 1 screenshots & reviews
Posted on Friday, July 29th, 2005
The first beta of Internet Explorer 7 was released yesterday, as was the first beta of Windows Vista. Today sees the first reviews and screenshots. Flexbeta review C|Net review IE 7 screenshot from Microsoft Again, this will be only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista sometime next year.
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Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
Posted on Thursday, July 28th, 2005
IBM has published a lengthy article explaining how you can make your IE only site work in e.g. Firefox, Opera or Safari. The article handles browser, DOM, JavaScript, CSS, Event and XML differences. It even touches Quirks vs. Standards mode and Rich Text Editing. Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work [...]
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IE’s dead, hail the new King!
Posted on Saturday, June 25th, 2005
… and the new king is ‘Longhorn‘! Well, not exactly, it’s RSS! I’ve watched the video, scanned Technorati, clicked on TechCrunch, taken a look at the IE Blog, re-visited C|Net, shivered at the Creative Commons Blog, read the last Gnomedex’r story, … What’s left? I say, Redmond got the idea late in the game. But [...]
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What’s that animal?
Posted on Saturday, June 25th, 2005
What’s that animal looking over the shoulder of MS IE RSS-team member Amar Gandhi? Full video over at Channel 9. See 22 minutes in. (185Meg WMV. NOT linked directly.)
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet Explorer, MSN Search, RSS, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
Turning off the ‘friendly HTTP error messages’ in Firefox
Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
By accident I stumbled upon this Firefox somewhat equivalent of IE’s ‘Show friendly HTTP error messages’ option. Any webdeveloper should have this turned off by default. How else will you know what the problem is? So here’s how to do it: Open up a new tab (CTRL+T) or window (CTRL+N). Type in de addressbar: about:config. [...]
Posted in Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, Intranet, Webdesign, WebDev | 7 Comments »