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 [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft have finally release the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8.
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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 [...]

Use of that major security hole of the internet more commonly known as Internet Explorer 6 has fallen since IE7 was released until now where the number of people using it is just below that of IE7 users (at least on my site where Firefox users make up about 35% with IE6 and 7 making [...]

There are thousands of different web editors available for you to use on your own computer to create your web pages. The following is a small selection (including some that are free downloads) and most of these are available for both Windows and Mac (and in some cases Linux as well).

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 [...]