get the word out there people and if you see someone with this on their computer just update them not to say that i like ie7 or ie8 but the less of them i have to code for the better!!! And also install firefox!!! giving the choice some people will switch.
the ie 8.1 looks very promising and my be the one to wright all the wrongs of the past.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet-explorer-81-eagle-eyes-leaked/
and very good comments after!!!!
we may have to take down our blog.
this is a problem i had when ie7 first came out now i ran into it again it is now 09 and i am facing the same problem i had in 07. I think it had to do with a setting in the browser for outside cookies what i am trying to do is load other sites into a frame with a top header like you would see on facebook when you click on a link well wish me luck as i try to get it to work.
And finally, the giants are starting to get annoyed enough by IE6 to start calling for it’s demise. Google is now asking users to drop IE6 in favor of their own Chrome browser or Firefox 3 (Safari & IE7 also appear as compatible browsers).
Some people may see this as a monopolistic tactic since Google is suggesting users to use their own Chrome browser but let’s be honest:
Hopefully more services will join in with Google and start asking their users to drop this awful browser once and for all. I am sure we will be seeing some major changes on the browser world for 2009.
From IE5 and all the way up to IE8 (that’s four different versions of the same browser that are still used by several people). Apparently, according to this article , there is major security flaw on IE that allows users to steal passwords for online games and could be (or has already been) modified to steal other types of passwords.
So far there is no patch available from Microsoft so nay users that are currently browsing the Web with any IE version are completely open to this attack. Microsoft has released some workarounds but people report that they are either to complicated for the common user or that they do not work at all (if they worked then that would technically be a patch, right?)
Our recommendation for a quick and easy patch is very simple: USE ANOTHER BROWSER. Here’s a list so that you can choose, maybe even try them all and see which one you like the best:
With the recent news that a lot of Website, including major ones like CNN, Facebook, etc, will not display correctly on IE8, I think the time has finally come in where we have the advantage to get rid of IE once and for all. IE8 case is that since now they are a supposedly standards complain browser, I’ll talk about why I say supposedly in a second, Websites that applied hacks for previous versions of IE will not work as expected on IE8.
Before anybody points out that Microsoft effort to have a standard complaint browser is a good thing I will say that I completley agree with this thought. The problem I am having with it, is their egotistical approach in which they basically sent out an ultimatum to al Web Masters warning them about how their Websites would break because they had used non standards hacks.
First of all, this hacks are in place because of Microsoft’s own crappy browsers to begin with and second I don’t believe it is a very wise marketing idea to go out and tell people that they need to spend monet and resources adapting their Websites to be used with your browser. I mean, screw that, I’ll just tell people to keep using the browser they are using now since my Website already works well in them.
Actually, there is one thing that I don’t understand and that is that Safari, Chrome and of course Firefox are all standard compliant browsers and all these Websites and my Website, look and work as expected on them. So how come Microsoft’s IE8 is having a problem with them? because of hacks that we had to do for their privous versions? Couldn’t IE8 be programmed to ignored this hacks?
I say it’s time to turn our back on the IE team and just say: “sorry, I don’t have the time, money or the will to make my Website work with your browser. Why don’t you turn around and make your browser work with my Website and all the other million Website in which it doesn’t work?”
All I can say is: seriously? You have to have big brass balls to after years of making a non-compliant crappy browser you will now switch the table and compile a list of Websites that are not compatible with your newer, supposedly standards compliant browser ignoring the fact that these Websites don’t work with your browser mainly because of all the hacks that had to be added so that they would work on IE6 and IE7.
I say it’s time for us to crerate a list of crappy Non-Compliant Browsers:
Suck on that Microsoft.
There are some techniques that are not mentioned in any book and that we recently discovered on Designer Daily .
If you have tried every trick in the book with no luck, take a look at their recommendations and we assure you you will have a better experience with IE6.
