A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Not that you should ever need it, but if you were to find yourself in such a situation: it exists. Bootstrap 5 drops support for Internet Explorer 11, but you can add support back by simply adding a CSS file and a few JavaScript polyfills. Bootstrap 5 for IE 11 → Find out here what’s …
IE6 vs. the Acid2 test. It was only until IE8 that it passed Acid2. When “Edgium” got released about a month ago, Schepp also wrote an extensive piece to commemorate the Trident rendering engine. Back in the days, Microsoft was single-handedly pushing the web forward, with around 1.000(!) people working on Internet Explorer and with …
Great read on how a few YouTube engineers bypassed the internal Google politics in order to abolish IE6 from their list of supported browsers: One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against …
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The Modern.ie Virtual Machine Images – VMs used for testing several versions of IE – are now also available as vagrant boxes. Here’s the list: XP with IE6: http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie6 XP with IE8: http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie8 Vista with IE7: http://aka.ms/vagrant-vista-ie7 Windows 7 with IE8: http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie8 Windows 7 with IE9: http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie9 Windows 7 with IE10: http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie10 Windows 7 with …
Windows Phone 8.1 Update includes hundreds of Internet Explorer 11 enhancements that greatly increase compatibility with the mobile web. … We updated the User Agent string in IE on Windows Phone to increase the number of sites that would correctly deliver the best mobile content. … In Windows Phone 8.1 Update, we added a mapping …
Microsoft released Modern.IE, a set of tools to help you support modern and older versions of Internet Explorer. Along with that, they’ve also released updated Internet Explorer Virtual Machines. Avaiable are VM’s with IE7 (Vista), IE8 (Win7), IE9 (Win7) and IE10 (Win8). An IE6 (XP) is coming soon. Modern.IE → Modern.IE Virtualization Tools (VMs) →
Hauntingly beautiful, pleasantly challenging and strangely addicting – Contre Jour is now on the web! Swing, shoot, drop or fling Petit through 30 free challenging levels right in your browser. Very nice iOS game (been playing it for quite some time now), ported to the web by to celebrate the upcomig Internet Explorer 10 team …