Tiffany B. Brown

a mish-mosh of stuff

Posts tagged: Internet Explorer

On Apple’s iPad, HTML5, and the future of Flash
So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t support [...] [4 Feb 2010]
Microsoft changes course on IE 8
They listened (mostly)! Microsoft announced today that Internet Explorer 8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. Internet Explorer will retain the version 7 rendering engine. But rather than opt-in to version 8 rendering, developers will have to opt-out of it. Developers and / or server administrators can [...] [3 Mar 2008]
Internet Explorer 8 round-up
My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it UPDATES: Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility. Best Standards Support Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests. Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for Internet Explorer. Microsoft᾿s “Super Standards” Mode: Important [...] [22 Jan 2008]
Recommended: Anil Dash’s ‘Google and Theory of Mind’
Anil analyzes Google’s Knol product and suggests that Google may be dancing awfully close to the ‘evil’ line. Two points to think about: Theory of mind is the awareness that others are aware, and its absence is the weakness that Google doesn’t know it has. This shortcoming exists at a deep cultural level within the organization, and [...] [14 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]