Posts Tagged “IE”

Finally IE6 is Dieing!

by Nick.

Amazingly enough even though we are at version 8 of Internet Explorer IE6 still seems to be clinging on and holding back the internet. IE7 and 8 are still poor, but atleast Microsoft is finally starting to see that if they continue to ignore standards their market share will continue to dwindle despite having the huge advantage of shipping with Windows.

However when I was admiring the nice new design of Dan Cederholm’s new micro-blog theme I noticed that the only CSS directive he had was the following:

<!--[if gte IE 7]><!-->
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen, projection" href="http://simplebits.com/-/css/bitstream.css" />
<!-- <![endif]-->

After looking at this and CSS for awhile I could not figure out how he handled the IE6 problem with all the transparent icons he is using. Then I used Adobe’s Browser Lab in CS Live to view his site in several browsers and he handled the IE6 problem by completely ignoring it! This makes me very happy because I have been considering doing this for a long time.

Obviously a personally micro-blog is hardly a mission critical site that must work, but I think having high profile web developers start to shun these poor browsers from Microsoft is a great start.

Firefox 1.5 vs. IE 6 Security

by Nick.

*UPDATE 9/10/2006: After reading some more “editorials from an analytical perspective” on the Popular Tecnology I now see that they are a Microsoft advocate blog pretending to be a impartial source. I think that sites like OSNews should be a little more careful when picking thier sources.

While browsing OS News I found a link to an article claiming that IE is more secure in 2006 than Firefox. They base this statement on the fact that Firefox had more vulnerabilities found this year. This is an extremely naive way to measure the security of a certain browser to another. There are several reasons why the metric they used to measure security is useless which I will briefly go over now.