Netmarketshare, a site that analyzes Internet technology trends, posts that IE6 is down to 17.58% in April. Firefox 3.6 nearly matches that, and Firefox 3.5 adds another 5.8%. If you are not building your Internet or Intranet sites to match the features of modern browsers, you are missing out. If your development shop is STILL … Read more
Lifehacker.com had an article on a Forrester Research survey of companies asking them what their default internet browser standard is. I was shocked…yes…shocked to see that IE6 still accounts for 60% of the corporate install base. Does anyone reading this have a justifyable reason why this is so? What is it that keeps your organization … Read more
So, I have a long diatrabe about standardizing on Firefox and then another open source browser gets released. I’m currently writing this blog post on Google’s new browser Chrome. It is a different experience for sure, but some of the same familiar features that I like such as tabbed browsing, and formatted code when you ‘view … Read more
I have recently had the great displeasure of using a time and expense application that works only in Internet Explorer 6. The company is Infinite Computer Solutions, and I don’t mind using their name because of the frustrations this application has given me and the time its taken from me. The application is so bad … Read more
As mentioned on Slashdot this morning, a new vulnerability has been released which shreds all the security built into Vista. Yes, Windows Vista is considered to be much more secure than XP. I was actually starting to use and like Vista on a new hard drive I recently purchased. This newly discovered type of attack … Read more
I knew that IBM would not support IE7 on existing platforms (RAD/RWD/RSA 6, etc.), but now they have stated that they will not support IE7 on the upcoming RSDP 7 (codenamed Caspian). The product is not even released and yet IBM is behind the curve! http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21248158 IE 7 has been in Beta for nearly a … Read more