The Minority Report

Ok, I’ll admit that I’m not a huge fan of peanut butter…or Internet Explorer. One of my big complaints has been that IE doesn’t support SVG. I posted about Microsoft joining the SVG Working Group previously and this is a follow up post on the IE Blog update regarding their working with the group. In [...]

Holy freaking crap!! This is AWESOME news! Hopefully, SVG will become a first class technology in Internet Explorer 9!! No more work arounds, no more VML kludges! This is great news. As a part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability and standards support, yesterday we submitted our request to join the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) [...]

We’ve been pushing for the death of Internet Explorer 6 here for some time. So it’s with great joy that I see Google pushing the death with this banner on YouTube. Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing [...]

I don’t know if you noticed this slip? on the IEBlog today but it would seem that Kumo, the new/replacement to Windows Live Search (or whatever it’s called today), might be moving forward as the new name and not just a code name. Accelerator Platform on Windows 7IEBlog : Accelerator Platform on Windows 7 Right [...]

I continue enjoying snipping from george’s world today. He notes that Internet Explorer 8 is now a high priority update from Microsoft. I have updated servers today and noticed the same thing. Now the adoption rate of IE7 from IE6 wasn’t that significant at first but I don’t remember how they flagged IE7 vs. IE8. [...]

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it’s comforting to go to a website and see the familiar 2k/xp/2003/vista line that says the software you are downloading is going to run on the NT family of operating systems. On the other hand, Windows 2000 came out in 1999. That’s 10 years old [...]

I don’t know if you have used SVG style vector graphics. I have. A lot. I hate that no version of Internet Explorer supports this format (including the recently release Internet Explorer 8). Please, for the sake of the Internet adopting a great file format that saves space, is scalable at different resolutions, push Microsoft [...]

I don’t know how this guy get’s the scoops but I didn’t see IE8 final on any of my other news sites yet today. I’m sure it’s going to be in all the headlines but wow. Please upgrade to either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 or if you really want a browser that [...]

I can’t help it. I see IE8 compatibility in the title and I go for the jugular. Individually, the Microsoft developers don’t deserve it, their decent enough guys and several have visited this blog. I’m sure I would enjoy a beer with each of them. Collectively, the Microsoft IE management team needs to have it’s [...]

So the other day, Randall C. Kennedy (I hope he wasn’t drunk) of Infoworld publishes this article on a “reliable” rumor that IE8 is going to be the last version of IE. This is the setup clip: IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser. At least, that’s what I’m hearing through [...]

In an effort to improve Web users’ compatibility experience, Microsoft added a new, user-selectable Compatibility List to the Release Candidate test version of IE 8 that the company released in January. Microsoft describes the list — Version 1.0 of which includes 2,400 sites that don’t render properly in IE 8 (in other words, an “incompatibility [...]