It seems that every time you create a web page you find yet another bug in the way that Internet Explorer fails to process the page correctly. This short article explains the cause of the duplicate character bug and suggests several different ways to make minor modifications to your page so that it will work in IE as well as proper web browsers.
The one browser that has always insisted on doing things its own way rather than following the standards is Internet Explorer (this is perhaps because for a number of years IE6 was so popular that it effectively was the standard). Now that IE only has 50% of the market you need your web pages to work on standards compliant browsers as well as IE and so you need to also be aware of the quirks in how IE works. One of these quirks is hasLayout and in this article we look at how to code your stylesheet so that it works correctly in both standards compliant browsers and in IE.
Windows XP was shipped with two web browsers from Microsoft. Internet Explorer 6 is the one everyone knows about while almost no one even realises that MSN Explorer is there. This “hidden” web browser can be removed from your computer to free up resources and increase the security of your computer.
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.
And now for something that is both new and on a completely different topic from the other new material this week. 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, and even tags which still exist in the current version of (X)HTML but which are proposed to be removed from XHTML 2.0 such as the img tag.
Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as it seems since there are a number of issues that one browser (I’m sure you guessed it’s Internet Explorer) has where it doesn’t support the object tag properly (which is somewhat strange considering that Microsoft proposed that tag in the first place.
With dozens of free FTP programs available for download you’d have to wonder why someone would want to use their web browser to do the job but it can be done. In this article I look at how you can use Internet Explorer to transfer files if you can’t spare the two minutes needed to download and install a better program for the job.
Microsoft have finally release the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8.
It looks like Microsoft did not proceed with the planned forced upgrade to IE 7 on 12th February as they had previously indicated was scheduled. As yet I have found no explanation for why this didn’t happen. Given that IE 7 is actually a major security patch to IE 6 is ought to have been a “must have” upgrade from day one but for some reason Microsoft do not seem to want to push this anywhere near as much as they ought to be doing.
I have just been comparing the recent browser stats for my site with those from a few months ago and the comparison is quite interesting. The percentage of visitors to my site who use IE 7 has actually fallen from 29% to 26% over the past few months while IE 6 users remains relatively static at 27%. This means that once more there are more IE 6 visitors than IE 7 visitors. It also appears to indicate that people have stopped upgrading from IE 6 to IE 7 and that those who did upgrade to IE 7 have started upgrading again to a better browser than IE. The combined toal for IE visitors is now down to 54% while those using Firefox and Mozilla are now at 41%. Opera and Safari users make up most of the remainder.
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