So, with the news that YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye and the recent release of Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8 I thought I'd take a moment ...

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Along with all the other news coming out at E3 2006, Opera have announced that their web browser will run on the Nintendo Wii. This follows the announcement in February that Opera will also be released for the Nintendo...

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So, a quick twelve-monthly roundup for usage of philwilson.org is in order I think. For these stats I only looked at the fifty most frequent visitng user-agents Overall, hits were pretty 50-50 between browsers and aggregators. I don’t have last years’ logs, but if I did I bet I’d have seen a massive surge in the number of aggregators being...

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Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows says: I still believe in the end that most users will decide that IE is the best choice when they take into account all the factors that led them to choose IE in the first place Well, excuse me, but I used IE for years and never had a say in the matter. I turned on my computer for the fi...

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Until recently I’d forgotten how much Internet Explorer lags behind in the browser stakes from a user perspective as opposed to a developer perspective. No tabs, no mouse gestures, minimal customisation of menus. Rubbish. Of course, you can get MyIE2 to cure most of these ills, but then that comes with its own bloat, including over-complicated menus and preferences dialogs, inconsistent interna...

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Website redesign! Work in progress – it looks pretty bad in IE (especially Win98 and 2000), but ace in Mozilla-based browsers, and not too bad in Konqueror, Safari and on WinXP.

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CSS hacks, a short summary: Which CSS filter works in which browser? The Underscore hack

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A new, excellent site full of everything you wanted to know about browsers, CSS and javascript by the master of all three. Also contains the gem that IE/Mac is a Bug ridden crash prone piece of junk. At last. After five months of hard work I proudly present ht...

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Danger Will Robinson! I have completely broken my support for loading remote PHP files in all my browsers, all, I suspect, a result of reconfiguring my default application handling of PHP files for MozPHP. Not very good. OK. I ‘fess up. MozPHP is fine. The server I was trying to a load a file from was incorrectl...

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Theoretically, in the next year or two, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and so on might offer complete support for CSS3. But we won’t be able to take advantage of it if 85% of the audience is using a browser that still has some problems with CSS1. This is not a good thing. People have said that this means

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