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 Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as "IE6," is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight. Link: http://ie6funeral.com/Labels: ie, microsoft
Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products -- as well as new Docs and Sites features -- won’t work properly in older browsers. Hopefully this will push it over the edge so Veign will no longer have to design websites with IE6 in mind. My stats still show enough usage that I have no choice but to support it. IE6 = frustration
Link: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/...Labels: design, development, google, ie
Welcome to the IE6 CSS Fixer: starter kit page. A tool specifically designed to ease the pain of the ie6 css debugger. If you want to read up on all the specifics, I advise you to check the articles on the ideology, the specific fixes and the scope of this tool. Every little bit helps even though a true understanding of CSS and XHTML can make working with IE6 not too bad. Link: http://www.onderhond.com/tools/ie6fixerLabels: css, design, development, ie
 Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer shows your web pages rendered in Internet Explorer 6 and either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8, depending on which version you have installed on your machine. You can view the pages side by side or as an onion-skin overlay and use rulers, guides and zoom/pan tools to precisely identify differences in layout. You can even compare your page comp to how the targeted browsers render the page. This is a free tool that every web designer should have. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: design, development, free, ie, microsoft, software
 Internet Explorer 8 Demo Site - This site gives you the opportunity to test some of the new security, interoperability and advanced AJAX features in IE8 without having to search for sites or visit potentially dangerous sites. Not like I would switch as a long time, and very happy, Firefox user. Link: http://www.ie8demos.com/tryit/Labels: browsers, ie, microsoft
Microsoft is investigating a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote and may not require any user intervention.
Link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/972890Labels: ie, microsoft, security
Would you rather have the menu bar in IE8 to be more like Firefox, or other Windows application, in the sense that it will appear at the very top of the window? A simple reg hack will get that going for you. 1) Copy the bold text below into a text file (between the lines) ----------------------------------------------------------- REGEDIT4[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001
----------------------------------------------------------- 2) Save the text file with a REG extension (like toolbar.reg) 3) Double click the file and allow it to update your registry 4) Shut down IE8 (if open) and restart it. Before the change:  After the change:  Labels: fix, ie
Yup, that's right, IE8 is available today and that means I have to support another browser when developing websites. I just wish IE6's market share would drop enough so I could drop it from my list of supported browsers. Labels: browsers, design, development, ie, microsoft
Protection against malicious Web attacks and tweaks to a feature that lets users browse the Internet privately are among updates Internet Explorer users can test in the first release candidate for IE8, which Microsoft made available Monday.
As first reported by the IDG News Service Friday, Microsoft released the feature-complete version of IE8 to the Web Monday. Microsoft added performance tweaks to existing features and one major security update to block Web attacks known as "clickjacking" that the company said makes IE8 the only Web browser to offer such protection.
Clickjacking lets hackers put a transparent filter on sites so they can view what information a user is accessing and what activities that user is doing, said James Pratt, an IE senior product manager at Microsoft. For example, if someone is on a bank Web site, attackers can use clickjacking to see the user's bank information and acquire passwords, and the user will not know the information is being viewed remotely, he said. Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/...Labels: ie, microsoft
Make sure you run Windows Update today and patch the security exploit found in IE. The update should be coming anytime now and I will update this post when its been released. Windows Update: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/Official Security Bulletin with patch: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Labels: ie, microsoft, security
Microsoft said research confirmed that the bug is within all its browsers, including those it currently supports -- IE5.01, IE6 and IE7 -- as well as IE8 Beta 2, a preview version that the company doesn't support through normal channels.
Users running any of those browsers on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 or Server 2008 are at risk, Microsoft said.
It adds IE6 and IE8 Beta 2 to the list, recommends disabling .dll to stay safe Link: http://www.computerworld.com/action/...Labels: ie, microsoft
 IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Link: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/...Labels: design, development, ie, website
This document is designed to help IT administrators and developers evaluating Internet Explorer 7 understand some of the common issues seen with application compatibility. The examples provided in this document will help IT administrators and developers understand the issues involved, why they occur and how to workaround them with Internet Explorer 7 in your environment. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: ie, microsoft
Instead of prompting me with a dialog box to determine if I wanted to open the file or save, IE simply came back and indicated that it couldn’t save the file and presented with me with one option, ‘OK’. Of course ‘OK’ isn’t really ‘OK’, because it terminated the download and dropped me back into the website. Very strange issue that happens on some systems but not others. The above blog post offers the most comprehensive discussion of this issue. Link: http://.../making-ie-accept-file-downloads/Labels: ie, php
 Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC. - Check for and remove viruses
- Get rid of junk on your hard disk
- Improve your PC's performance
Ran a full scan in a Virtual PC and it mainly found registry problems. Ran the fixes and really can't tell anything - which I expect from the registry problems tools like this find. Link: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htmLabels: hardware, ie, live, windows
 Whats New:- Activities
- WebSlices
- Favorites Bar
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Improved Phishing Filter
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/...Labels: ie, microsoft
I have some code that when run on a webpage and the user attempts to print will cause a script error. The page has no scripting and only a DIV tag with a class name of tagsTest page with only enough code to be a valid page: http://www.veign.com/sandbox/tag/Does this cause a script error when you choose File -> Print in IE6? Its be confirmed on by a fellow MS MVP. IE6 can't handle a class name called tags - causes a script error when printing. Labels: development, ie
As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.
Link: http://.../internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspxLabels: ie
For most people, their web browser is central to their interaction with the Internet, connecting to global web sites and helping them consume online services providing everything from booking flights to banking services to online shopping. This reality makes browsers a key tool when evaluating the security experience of users as the browser interprets Web content and programs delivered from around the world.
Over the past few years, there has been much discussion of the need for improvements in browser security, but few hard data studies performed to support assertions concerning the security of available browsers.
This report documents the results of my analysis of Internet Explorer and Firefox vulnerabilities over the past few years since Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 became available and Mozilla launched Firefox. Link: http://.../download-internet-explorer-and-firefox-vulnerability-analysisLabels: firefox, ie, security
Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to “click to activate” before they could interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Because of this, we're removing the “click to activate” behavior from Internet Explorer!
It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require “click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work. Link: http://.../changes-to-ie-activex-updateLabels: ie
Have you ever been on a page with a ton of animated GIF’s, and all you’re trying to do is read the content? It can get quite distracting, but if you’re using Firefox or Internet Explorer just hit the ESC key. Doing so will immediately pause all of the animated GIF images on the page. Never knew that. Wish I knew this a long time ago. Link: http://.../pause-animated-gifs-in-firefox-and-ie/Labels: firefox, ie
Mozilla Admits Firefox Exploit Caused by Firefox Bug, Not IE: "On July 10, engineers at Secunia issued a security advisory, rated 'Highly Critical,' warning Firefox users that their browser could be tricked into executing arbitrary JavaScript code. Soon afterward, Mozilla developers issued a statement saying the problem was caused by Internet Explorer, which could trick Firefox into executing that code. This morning, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder had to issue a retraction, stating Firefox could just as easily trick Firefox into doing the same thing" Link: http://.../Mozilla_Admits_Firefox_Exploit_Caused_by_Firefox...Labels: firefox, ie, security
A person at leneros.com has posted some of the images saying that the images actually are that of Internet Explorer 8 Alpha. Judge for yourself if it is or if it's just a theme or some hack. Me thinks its a fake. Link: http://.../internet-explorer-8-alpha-screenshots/Labels: ie, microsoft, software
Polish hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on serious flaws in fully patched versions of IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox 2.0. Read the whole story: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=254See one of the IE security holes: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ierace/Labels: firefox, ie, security
First, from the website: Get this tool for switching people from IE to Firefox.
For each person you switch, Google gives you $1, Microsoft loses marketshare, and an angel gets its wings. Now, the bad news. You will p*ss off so many people by having a script like that running that you will basically be shooting yourself in the foot. If you are thinking about using this script, and I hope you don't, at least leave it off your company or business website. Link: http://explorerdestroyer.com/Labels: firefox, google, ie
 With Surfulater you can permanently save anything you find on the web, in other applications and on your hard drive, and organize it in ways you haven't dreamt of yet. For starters you can categorize, cross reference and do full text searches. Plus annotate and edit whatever you have saved to make it all the more valuable. And of course you can find anything in a flash. I much rather have a good bookmark manager, whether local on my system or online, to handle information I come across. I'm even getting away from bookmarks as I find myself much faster searching in Google and relying on Google results for the most relevant website. Maybe that's what's needed: A Google Search organizer. Is it better to bookmark a single site or bookmark a Google search string that returns many results? Link: http://www.surfulater.com/Labels: firefox, ie, software
Did you know that in Internet Explorer the URL you type into the address bar are stored in the registry. Even if you clean your history these URL's will remain active in the IE address bar history. How to clean:- Start menu -> Run -> Regedit
- Navigate to the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs]
- With the key highlighted in the left view pane you can see the typed in URLs in the right view pane
- Delete values as required or remove the entire key (IE will recreate the key when needed)
I know there are tools that will automatically clean this history for you but I don't want a whole application for something I clean only every few months or so. What I did was create a registry hack that will delete the typed in URL key in the registry (it will be recreated by IE when you need it). Download it and double-click it the .reg file and your history will be cleaned. Link to reg hack: http://www.veign.com/registry-hacks.phpLabels: fix, ie, veign
Just in case you're running some sort of content management system that uses the extremely popular FCKEditor and you want it to have access to your clipboard (so it could perform its Word pasting cleanup) here's a good article on the matter. Link: http://...clipboard-pop-up-warning-message-in-ie7/Labels: ie, microsoft
Since I don't use IE7, or IE for that matter, I really haven't been able to test it but from what I hear this is the shiznit (word thrown in to connect with the younger, more hip readers). Some of its offerings: - Easier Tab Management
- AD Blocker
- Super Drag and Drop
- Mouse Gesture
- Save Page to Image
- Proxy Switcher
- Crash Recovery
- Tab History Browser
If the product is anything like the design of their website then it must be impressive - nice website guys... Link: http://www.ie7pro.com/Labels: ie, microsoft
Would you rather have the menu bar in IE7 to be more like IE6 in the sense that it will appear at the very top of the window? A simple reg hack will get that going for you. 1) Copy the bold text below into a text file (between the lines) ----------------------------------------------------------- REGEDIT4[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001
----------------------------------------------------------- 2) Save the text file with a REG extension (like toolbar.reg) 3) Double click the file and allow it to update your registry 4) Shut down IE7 (if open) and restart it. Before the change: After the change: Labels: fix, ie
Who knows why but if this gets you to switch. Link: http://.../jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/Labels: firefox, ie
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