Tag Archives: Browsers

Performance, Rendering Improvements Coming in IE9

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Fuzzy

With IE’s market share continuing its decline, Microsoft is working overtime to catch up to the current generation of browsers. If everything Microsoft showed with IE9 at their Professional Developers Conference comes to pass, they may be able to stem … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Frame Puts Chrome in Internet Explorer

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Fuzzy

In the if-you-can’t-beat-them-shove-a-tube-down-their-throat-and-plant-eggs-in-their-chest department, Google has released Chrome Frame, an open source plugin that drops Chrome’s HTML (WebKit) and JavaScript (V8) engines into IE. Ars has a good summary as usual. The idea is an IE user stumbles upon your … Continue reading →

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jQuery Tools – A Cool New UI Library for jQuery

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Fuzzy

When I have to do JavaScript programming for a web site, the first thing I do is drop in a reference to jQuery on Google’s CDN. I can’t imagine doing any non-trivial JavaScript work without jQuery. jQuery is: …a fast … Continue reading →

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Google Builds JavaScript SVG Library for IE

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Fuzzy

From Slashdot, in the making-IE-suck-less department, there’s a project up on Google Code called svgweb that will add SVG support to browsers that don’t have it baked in. Which is the long hand way of saying it fixes Internet Explorer. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Pans IE6

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Fuzzy

From ComputerWorld: Friends don’t let friends use IE6. – Amy Bazdukas, Microsoft Internet Explorer General Manager. She does give businesses some cover, saying because some companies are big stupid heads and built applications around IE6 rather than web standards they … Continue reading →

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