NotesBut... FrontPage as a concept. As a dream of what could have been, and a window into what was. Letting the typical home user at the time create websites, express creativity, and conquer the world by storm, all without being forced to learn HTML or CSS or JavaScript... In that regard, FrontPage couldn't be beat.FeedUnfurl
Notes The Internet Explorer process on W8ARM has special privileges and is the only one allowed to run a JIT compiler to speed up JavaScript. No other browser will be able to compete on performance with IE on W8ARM. That sure simplifies keeping up with the competition ... ;-)Unfurl
NotesMicrosoft recently gave some code to the Samba project -- one of the company's traditional open source enemies. The move is a sign that when it comes to open source, Microsoft has changed.
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NotesA couple of interesting things happened in the world of Web browser usage during October. The more significant one is that Internet Explorer's share of global browser usage dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade. Less significant, but also notable, is that Chrome for the first time overtook Firefox here at Ars, making it the technologist's browser of choice.Unfurl
Notes"I see no reason why Chrome won't rise to above 20% in the short term. This means, of course, that the market share of Firefox and Internet Explorer will continue to drop. But as I noted some time back, this really isn't a huge problem for Firefox - although it is for Microsoft. The reason is quite simple: Firefox was never aiming at world domination, it was fighting to create an open Web where no browser held such a dominant position that it could ignore open standards and impose de facto ones instead. We pretty much have that now, with Internet Explorer increasingly standards-compliant - and proud of it, amazingly."Unfurl
Notes"The problem is that no one quite knows what to look for when dealing with Internet Explorer’s plugins. Plugins in IE are ActiveX-based, so there’s no single API for them all—each has its own method of returning, for example, version information. What this basically means is that while Firefox and other browsers are putting all of their plugin information in one handy place, Internet Explorer is jealously guarding its plugin-related secrets. It’s like the Dick Cheney of browsers. And we are, um, the Information Security Oversight Office in that analogy.
Er… let’s just jump right in with some working detection cod"Unfurl
Notes"Microsoft is trying to put together a patch, but in the meantime computer users have been advised to update their security settings or switch to unaffected browsers such as Firefox or Opera. ... The flaw in IE allows criminals to gain control of computers that have visited a website infected with malicious code designed to exploit it. While restricting web surfing to trusted sites should reduce the risk of infection, the malicious code can be injected into any website. Users do not have to click or download anything to become infected, merely visiting an infected website is sufficient."Unfurl
NotesCheck this page every few months, since it seems they release new versions with the expiration time bumped forward. "VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE on Windows XP SP2"Unfurl
Notes"Sources were unable to say how he got in there or whose child he might be, but he apparently had been living in the code in a feral state for a number of years."FeedUnfurl
Notes"It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies." Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.Unfurl
Notes"What Yahoo needs is a Steve Jobs — someone who will ruthlessly focus the company on products that are better, more popular, and more profitable."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says." Now, there's a merger I wouldn't absolutely hate, given Amazon's developer resourcesUnfurl
Notes"Yahoo fell on some hard times but never lost her smile. She still wore her pretty purple dresses around town and acted as if nothing were wrong..."Unfurl
Notes"it stands to reason, if Microsoft is bending over backwards to keep its bread-and-butter corporate customers happy, that the IE team would suddenly get backwards-compatibility fever."FeedUnfurl
Notes"It might actually be quite an effective way of dramatically increasing the costs of entering or competing in the browser market. (This is what we call "anti-competitive", or "evil".)"FeedUnfurl
Notes"Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Palm hate Asustek because the company can give us something they can't: A super cheap, flexible, powerful mobile computer."Unfurl
Notes"The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."Unfurl
Notes"Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won’t delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed."Unfurl
Notes"I was still somehow brainwashed, though, as perhaps many people still are today, into believing that Word was the “serious” word-processor: the professional tool for anyone who did heavy lifting with language."Unfurl
Notes"As more and more lawsuits rock the industry, we should ask if software patents are stifling innovation. Bill Gates certainly thought so in 1991, even if he won’t admit it today."Unfurl
Notes"Instead of taking advantage of Internet Explorer 7, Outlook 2007 uses the very limited support for HTML and CSS that is built into Word 2007 to display HTML email messages."Unfurl
Notes"Folks should be cautious with their AJAX implementations in supporting IE7 and make sure they instantiate a native object in IE7 instead of the ActiveX one."Unfurl
Notes"I'd be interested to know about any Apple Matters readers whove managed to sway a friend or work colleague in the past few weeks/months in switching to a Mac, especially those whove done it with the one-hit line "It can run Windows"."Unfurl
Notes"If you've ever written a post in Word 2003 or before and then copied and pasted the text into your web browser you know what I'm talking about." I have no idea what he's talking about.Unfurl
Notes"But the software giant turned its back on the rest of the software community in the late 1990s once it had developed a server operating system it believed it could corner the market with. "Unfurl
Notes"If you've ever fantasized about what 150 Mac Minis might look like, well, you really are a bigger dweeb than wed thought and were so totally never going to go out on a date with you, so stop asking already!"Unfurl
Notes"But everything about Boot Camp is calibrated to position Windows-on-Mac as the next Classic-style ghetto a compatibility layer that you might need but that you wish you didn't."Unfurl
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