Posts in category ”Browsers”
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Internet Explorer has been retired
Today, after 27 years of service, Microsoft has finally retired Internet Explorer. Somewhere, a web developer is opening a bottle of champagne.
Microsoft unveil Project Spartan
I remember when Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer back in 1995, after acquiring Spyglass Mosaic and doing what large technology companies do best: putting a new label on something and marching confidently into battle.
MIX09 in Las Vegas
Microsoft’s MIX09 conference has kicked off in Las Vegas, that shimmering monument to excess where bad decisions are encouraged, oxygen is apparently optional, and software developers gather to discuss web standards under the glow of several billion neon lights.
MIX08 in Las Vegas
Once again, Microsoft’s MIX conference has descended on The Venetian in Las Vegas, because apparently the natural habitat for web standards is a vast casino complex filled with fake canals, artificial skies and people making catastrophically optimistic financial decisions.
Triggering standards mode in Internet Explorer
Recently Microsoft announced that the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 will introduce a special meta element for triggering standards mode. It will look something like this.
Rest in peace Netscape
I started using NCSA Mosaic back in 1994, when the web was young, strange and mostly populated by academics, geeks and people who thought a grey background was perfectly acceptable design.
Safari for Windows
Today was WWDC 2007 in San Francisco, with Steve Jobs doing what he does best: standing on a stage and making several thousand people believe that whatever Apple was about to sell them was not merely desirable, but somehow inevitable.
Internet Explorer 7 has arrived
Internet Explorer 7 has finally arrived. After years of watching Firefox, Safari and assorted other browsers discover exciting modern concepts like standards, Microsoft has released the final version of IE7.