According to Microsoft's own stats, Internet Explorer 6 still accounts for more than 20% of web browser usage within China. Around a quarter of our 4,500 international students are Chinese (source PDF) and so we've always been really hesistant about switching o...

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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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*sigh*

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My wife is a computer pragmatist. She’s tech-literate, and thinks that Linux and Firefox can fuck off because they’ll stop her from using the applications and websites she wants to. So it was a wry grin that greeted her the day she came home and told me that her workplace has installed IE7 on their PCs. The follow...

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By now everyone has seen Sam Fortiner’s excellent post about implementing PNG in Internet Explorer, which is great news, and fulfils a long-hoped for hole in IE functionality. More amazing is the factoid found in the comments during a discussion of whether IE should support SVG natively: Did you kno...

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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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From on Robert Scoble’s post about meeting with the head of the IE team comes a link to jeffdav’s weblog – Jeff is a member of the IE UI team! The first IE-team blogger? Looks like it, and it looks like it’s going to be a good read. (there’s also

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It’s probably about to make its merry way around the blogiverse anyway, but the Internet Explorer Accessibility Toolbar really is excellent. It features most of the tools available on the Mozilla Web Developer Toolbar and a few other ones (such as...

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Fortunately I clearly don’t have any readers who are very interested in table-cell, because if I had, they’d have torn me to pieces on my post about how it does work in IE. Because it doesn’t. Steve Clay

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I seem to have been overwhelmed by people saying “display: table-cell doesn’t work in IE” recently. Once on IBeBloggin and twice at work, by the other two other web developers (who, incidentally, are working on different projects). All today. table-cell ...

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