Tag: ie

Intranet Explorer

when Microsoft talks about compatibility they’re largely talking about intranet sites inside corporations, which are often maintained poorly or not at all, so anything that’s broken by a browser change will remain broken forever. And it’s easy to see how the needs of large corporate customers can come to dominate the thinking of a software organization

this is why microsoft utterly fails on the web: they are internally divided, provide bogus arguments against the evolution of the web because it would hurt their cash cows.

History of IE JS GC

What happens when you have a web page, ASP page or WSH script with both VBScript and JScript? JScript and VBScript know nothing about each others garbage collection semantics. A VBScript program which gets a reference to a JScript object just sees another COM object. The same for a VBScript object passed to JScript. A circular reference between VBScript and JScript objects would not be broken and the memory would leak (until the engines were shut down). A noncircular reference will be freed when the object in question goes out of scope in both language (and the JS GC runs.)

the history of the IE6 Javascript GC, from the horse’s mouth

SK Monoculture

So we end up in 2007, 9 years after SEED was created for Korean users, and one legacy of the fall of Netscape is that Korean computer/Internet users only have an Active X control to do any encrypted communication online. Korea will only get beyond this problem by 1) applying Korean laws on open standards to the certificate authorities, 2) reassigning new certificates which work with open web standards to all Koreans, 3) reprogramming all Korean websites to support 128 bit SSL which will allow for a heterogeneous marketplace of operating systems and web browsers. This is a herculean task and thus Korea stays hostage to Redmond.

wow, i did not realize the south korean internet is completely fucked

IE web rewriting

Greasemonkey for IE. What’s the deal nowadays? At one time I heard about Trixie but not so much lately. I’ll revisit it myself, but I’m curious to hear reports on Trixie’s compatibility with Greasemonkey userscripts, its rate of adoption, and its security model.

an update on the greasemonkey / bookmarklet situation on IE