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Tag: ie
i wonder if this could be used to install a real browser.
Researchers have uncovered new, currently unpatched vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Internet Explorer that criminals are actively exploiting to surreptitiously install unusually advanced malware on computers that visit booby-trapped websites.
IE9 promises to be an excellent browser. Its CSS support is now at par with that of the other browsers. IE isn’t behind the others any more.
“mozilla.com”, “google.com”, “microsoft.com”, “yahoo.com” heh
This markup means that there is an image at the same address as the HTML document. IE silently drops the image. Other browsers do not; which results in a “duplicate” request for the page.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was “interesting” and added “we may look at that”.
Whoa. Likelihood of that happening? 5%
2021-08-05: This eventually happened in 2018.
Design criteria such as standard compliance, performance, reliability and security framed the design of IE8 as whole, for new as well as existing features. As a result, CSS expressions are no longer supported in IE8 standards mode.
there goes half of html 5
One of the big unresolved questions is how to distribute this thing — it’s what’s called a “binary rendering behavior” in IE parlance, and is packaged as an ActiveX component (well, it might or might not be ActiveX — I don’t really understand that part of the equation). Currently, the experience is pretty crappy: you have to click through an infobar to allow installation of this component, then you have to click “Yes” to say that you really want to run the native content, and then you have to click “Yes” again to allow the component to interact with content on the page. This sucks. In theory, with the right signatures, the right security class implementations, some eye of newt, and a pinch of garlic, it’s possible to get things down to a one-time install which would make the component available everywhere.
Mozilla is now paying people to fix IE, in this case canvas support.
Without the need to manipulate iframes or poll for hash changes, history management in IE8 should be a much simpler affair. You’ll just need to maintain an internal cache of all history events you’ve created programmatically so your listener can tell the difference between hash changes that you’re creating vs. ones you’re responding to.
who knew, ie 8 has a new feature from html5
98% of the world will install IE8 and say, “It has bugs and I can’t see my sites.” They don’t give a flicking flick about your stupid religious enthusiasm for making web browsers which conform to some mythical, platonic “standard” that is not actually implemented anywhere. They don’t want to hear your stories about messy hacks. They want web browsers that work with actual web sites
spolsky is such a moron. it never fails to amaze how many people listen to a guy selling bug trackers.
they forgot to add the mapping market leader. curious
Gregor J. Rothfuss 