Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts in: Internet Explorer

Microsoft licenses patent from Eolas
With any luck you will soon be able to chuck SWFObject* and go back using embed and object to include Flash movies in your documents. Microsoft has licensed the patent it was found liable of infringing upon. This means that Internet Explorer will soon handle ActiveX content (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) the way it did before [...] [11 Dec 2007]
ies4linux: Now with Mac support!
I’ve mentioned ies4Linux before, as well as a round-about way to get it running on your Mac OS X machine. Well, first Mike Kronenberg cut out a few steps and released ies4osx. Then Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior added those changes into the latest version of ies4linux. This isn’t yet a one-step operation. You will [...] [6 Dec 2007]
Open thread: Conditional comments: Yay or Nay?
I’m a big fan of conditional comments. I agree with Jens Meiert that they are non-standard, and don’t adequately separate content and presentation. However, I think they’re the best option we’ve got for one huge reason: it is the only reliable workaround for Internet Explorer that does not also affect other browsers. The LitePacific hack [...] [29 Jun 2007]
Internet Explorer on a Mac without a Windows license
I ran into a situation recently where I needed to test a web site in Internet Explorer 6, but the only computer with IE6 that I had reliable access to died a sudden death. I upgraded my own computer to Internet Explorer 7. And because I’m running Windows XP Home, I couldn’t use the Virtual [...] [25 Jun 2007]
Links for 2007-04-30
Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 release notes Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix07 [30 Apr 2007]
Links for October 18, 2006
A mostly-IE7 round up. Some new. Mostly old. All in one place. IE7 is expected to start shipping in the next two weeks. Now is the time to get your site up to snuff. Update: IE for XP is now available. Microsoft released it yesterday. Details on our CSS changes for IE7 A quick-and-dirty list of bugs have [...] [18 Oct 2006]