When you run IE in Kiosk mode the options that there are for interacting with the system are greatly reduced (an obvious requirement for if you use kiosk mode to provide public access). Here we look at just what options are still available when running in that mode. Internet Explorer in Kiosk Mode

While you can avoid the whole issue of messages about data being reposted by using a browser that doesn’t produce those messages and avoid any issues if data is posted again by coding the receiving script to identify it and handle it appropriately, that doesn’t resolve things for those visitors to your site who are [...]

The person who has the browser is the person who has control over how the web pages that they visit look. Is the text in all the web sites you visit too small to read easily. Perhaps you’d prefer it if all the text were dark green rather than black. Create your own stylesheet in [...]

Some of the pages that I find the easiest to write are those that have resulted from my getting involved in an “argument” on a forum regarding some particular issue. In this particular instance the discussion was on the difference between HTML and XHTML. One comment that I made was that Internet Explorer does not [...]

Modern browsers support SVG but Internet Explorer doesn’t. IE however has its own alternative way of creating colour gradients. By combining both we can create colour gradients that can be resized as needed and which don’t require conventional images. Gradient Backgrounds Without Images

Today’s article is about the object tag which is supposed to be the way that you embed other content such as video, sound, images, and other HTML files etc into your web page instead of using proprietary tags such as embed, deprecated tags such as iframe. Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as it seems since [...]

Back in the early days of stylesheets support for the various commands varied somewhat between browsers. Quite a number of browsers also had quirks where they misinterpreted stylesheet commands either ignoring an invalid character and processing a command that ought to be ignored or by not recognising a valid character and so not processing a [...]

One rather annoying aspect of Internet Explorer is the way that it mishandles a number of stylesheet commands. Most of these are corrected by placing a valid doctype statement as the first entry in your page source as IE also misuses that statement to determine whether to use “satandards” mode or “quirks” mode in interpreting [...]

Why you can’t have popup windows at all when running a web browser in Kiosk mode. Kiosk Mode and Popups

Internet Explorer 7 is still a popular enough browser that we cannot ignore it completely. Our pages must still be at least usable in those antiquated browsers or we’ll end up with a lot less visitors to our site than we would otherwise have. By including Microsoft conditional comments in our HTML we can hide [...]

One reason why some people never update their browser to patch security holes and to provide better compatibility with modern web pages is that they don’t know what a web browser is. To some people the internet is the big blue E on their desktop and they can’t see why they’d need to update the [...]

One way of increasing your chances of being able to print web pages properly from Internet Explorer is to use Print Preview to see what the printed copy will look like before you print it.