Netscape 0.9 on the Present-Day Web
In honour of Netscape’s passing, Perl & LWP author Sean M. Burke installed Netscape 0.9 and took it out for a spin, with amusing results.
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Michael Kimsal asks a very good question: Why do browsers still not have file upload progress bars?
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Okay, I’m Convinced: A Believable Non-Porn Use for “Porn Mode”
I’ve always laughed at how the guys on the Internet Explorer 8 team bent over backwards trying to come up with non-porn-surfing uses for “InPrivate Browsing”, which I often refer to as “Porn Mode”....
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My Statement on IE6
Yes, I know that cats live longer, but I think the quip I made at DemoCamp 21 still makes a good point: Let’s upgrade to compliant up-to-date browsers, shall we? IE8, or even that hippie browser, if...
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The Life and Times of Internet Explorer 6
Over at the design-oriented Smashing Magazine site, you’ll find Brad Colbow’s comic, The Life and Times of Internet Explorer 6. It’s the browser we all love to hate, including we who collect a nice...
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Internet Explorer 9 Videos on Channel 9
By now, you’ve probably seen my article covering the new, faster, even more standards-compliant Platform Preview 3 of Internet Explorer 9. From hardware acceleration to a speed-boosted JavaScript...
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IE’s Big Leap Forward
Peter-Paul “ppk” Koch writes in his blog, QuirksBlog (which lives on his site, QuirksMode): In the past few days I’ve been revising the CSS compatibility table with information about the latest crop of...
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Internet Explorer 9, Platform Preview 4
I’ve been busy with all sorts of stuff, so I ‘m a little late with an announcement you might have seen elsewhere online: IE9 Platform Preview 4 has been released! If you want the full story, check out...
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New Internet Explorer 9 Videos
If you haven’t tried the latest Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, get your hands on it now! This one’s got new goodies like a new SVG engine, the “Chakra” JavaScript engine now integrated into...
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