Microsoft Apologizes for IE6

This has been circulating around the internet for the past few days.  I wanted to post it here:

From the poster:

Dear Web Developers,

We are so very sorry about IE6.

Come, talk to us during one of the sessions, and we will show you why Internet Explorer 9 is way better.

Tags: Funny, Humor, ie6, IE9, Internet Explorer, internet explorer 6, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft

Flash Player 10.2: Stage Video, Multiple Display, Sub-pixel Text

Yesterday Adobe announced the release of their new version of the Flash Player, version 10.2.

Included in the update:

• Stage Video – Full hardware acceleration to the complete video pipeline.  Check out the Getting Started with stage video tutorial.  Web developers need to make changes to take advantage of this.
• Custom native mouse cursors
• Multiple monitor full screen support
• IE9 hardware accelerated rendering
• Enhanced sub-pixel rendering for text

You can install the latest version, or if you have Chrome the new version is included in the next browser update (which is available now I believe).

Tags: Adobe, Chrome, Flash, Flash Player, IE9, Stage Video

Brower Market Share: Chrome at 10.7%, IE 6 at 12.03% – Companies upgrading from IE6

ConceivablyTech has done a good job summarizing the data from NetMarketShare.

From The Third Double-Digit Browser: Chrome Blasts Past 10%:

Google’s Chrome had another successful month and ended 2010 with 10.70% market share, according to Net Applications and almost 16% according to StatCounter. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continued to lose market share on a fast pace while Mozilla’s Firefox is fighting and tightly holding on to the market share it has.

› Continue reading

Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google, Ie 6, ie6, IE7, IE9, Internet Explorer, mozilla, Net Applications, Safari, web developer

Internet Explorer 9: New browser, Same Problems – IE9 HTML5 Failures

Way back when, in the times of HTML 4, and CSS was just getting started we worked with IE6.  IE6 required us to do everything differently, because of the ways things were implemented.  They just had to be different.

Fast forward to 2011.  The world is rapidly expanding use of an incomplete spec, HTML5, and things seem OK. Browsers support it, the implementations seem pretty consistent.

Enter IE9.

› Continue reading

Tags: CSS, Giorgio Sardo, HTML, HTML5, IE9, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft

Notes on IE9 for Web Developers

I’m reading through the Interoperable HTML Parsing in IE9 blog post on MSDN and there are some nice, and some not so nice things.

The following are some subjects talked about, and what it means for us web developers.

› Continue reading

Tags: DOM, Generic Elements, HTML, HTML5, IE9, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft, Overlapping Tags, Whitespace

The Web Pushes Forward: HTML5, Opera Mini 5, iPad, Internet Explorer 9

Everything must move forward.  The web is no exception.  The strange part is, for a while, the internet didn’t move much.

Nowadays the web seems to be pushing forward fast, very fast.  Here are some of the new “happenings” on the internet, and where it may be going.

› Continue reading

Tags: Apple, HTML 5, HTML5, IE 9, IE9, Internet Explorer 9, iPad, Opera Mini, Opera Mini 5, SVG