2 month ago
wearehugh : IEBlog : IE8 Security Part V: Comprehensive Protection - ms still making up new shit -- authoritative=true, X-Download-Option:noopen
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nelson : Turn off MSIE click - The obscure path for turning off the stupid sound
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6 month ago
deusx : QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 default behaviour - "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 welc
wearehugh : QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 default behaviour - when MS screws the web, they're AWESOME. when MS changes their mind about which way they're going to screw the web, they're AWESOME. i think i see the pattern.
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7 month ago
wearehugh : X-UA-Incompatible - miscoded - by Hallvord R. M. Steen
deusx : X-UA-Incompatible - miscoded - by Hallvord R. M. Steen - "The cost of being compatible is again placed on IE's competitors"
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7 month ago
wearehugh : How to style unknown elements in IE - Xopus - now THIS is exciting
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7 month ago
wearehugh : John Resig - HTML5 Shiv - comment: "God, it's like IE was designed by a mischievous wizard"
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7 month ago
deusx : Hixie's Natural Log: Mistakes, Sadness, Regret - "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".)"
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7 month ago
Simon Willison : Legacy. - Legacy.. James Bennett has what I think is the most interesting analysis of the X-UA-Compatible header to date.
deusx : The B-List: Legacy. - "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."
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7 month ago
wearehugh : IE8 To Make Tender Chickens
deusx : IE8 To Make Tender Chickens - "Note: I wanted to make a crack in here about rebranding IE6 as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework but it wasn't working..."
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11 month ago
deusx : IE6 Form Tag Orphans by jpsykes - "Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won’t delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed."
wearehugh : IE6 Form Tag Orphans by jpsykes
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Simon Willison : Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image - Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August. [via]
deusx : Download details: IE App Compat VHD - "VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE on Windows XP SP2 This VPC image will expire on July 3, 2008." Crapsticks.
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20 month ago
wearehugh : Ryan Tomayko - Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord - "Taking every precaution, I quickly "fixed" the issue using a pair of paper scissors and black duct tape."
deusx : Ryan Tomayko - Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord - "The bad news is that after about ten minutes of running with both VMs open, I started to smell burning electronics."
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deusx : Internet Explorer and the CSS box model | 456 Berea Street - "One of the differences between Internet Explorer and standards compliant Web browsers that cause a lot of trouble for CSS beginners is the CSS box model."
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deusx : CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6 - Welcome to the MSDN Library - "This document describes the enhanced support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later."
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26 month ago
deusx : /my/flicker.html - "the horrible image flicker problem." - "Oh. And this is a browser problem not a server problem. Unfortunately the only way to fix it is by configuring your server."
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29 month ago
deusx : IE7 UI is Probably Going to Suck (Chris Pirillo) - "My guess is that when IE7 goes gold, more people will be driven to start using Firefox."
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31 month ago
deusx : rentzsch.com: Stop Stop Stop Hurting the Internet - "My God, they’ve made metal look good." ...and with a bonus quote and link to my link to the IE7 demo.
Jon Hicks : My God, they’ve made metal look good. - ..and Fisher Price! Explorer 7 UI shocks.
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31 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : A New Look for IE - One of the most obvious changes since Beta 1 is in the toolbar area. We focused on building a smaller, more compact UI that exposes only the most commonly used features, saving space for the content and tab areas
Douglas Bowman : A New Look for IE - Stepping through some of the new UI in Internet Explorer. Possibly the most interesting new feature is the ability to zoom the entire page, instead of just the text (following Opera's lead).
deusx : IEBlog : A New Look for IE - Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?
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32 month ago
Simon Willison : Canvas in IE - Cunning hack using .htc and VML. [via]
deusx : Emil's Chronicle - Canvas in IE - "Using VML, in combination with behaviors, it should therefor be possible to emulate a subset of SVG or Canvas in IE."
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34 month ago
Paul Hammond : Leak Free Javascript Closures - a function that can access an HTML element without creating an inline closure that leaks memory
deusx : Leak Free Javascript Closures - "Javascript closures can be a powerful programming technique. Unfortunately in Internet Explorer they are a common source of memory leaks. Therefore I propose a method to create closures that don't leak memory."
Simon Willison : Leak Free Javascript Closures - This is some pretty brilliant JavaScript voodoo.
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35 month ago
deusx : youngpup.net - Sleight - "Sleight is a simple Internet Explorer Behavior you can drop in webpages to make PNG graphics work as designed in Win32 IE5.5 ."
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35 month ago
deusx : IE PNG Fix - TwinHelix - "You know that one browser that has only a vague association with modern web standards? Yeah, Internet Explorer. Wouldn't it be great if it supported stuff like translucent PNGs?"
factoryjoe : IE PNG Fix - TwinHelix - Well, now you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code. This script will add near-native PNG support with full alpha opacity, with only one line in your CSS file, that applies to al
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deusx : Base64 Encoded Images for Internet Explorer - "Internet Explorer does not support Base64 encoding of images so we will take advantage of PHP?s built-in base64_decode function. We will simply pass the Base64 data back to a PHP module which will then decode the data and return the appropriate image."
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