There was news a few days back that Germany is now recommending that NO ONE use Internet Explorer anymore and that EVERYONE should switch to other browsers for security reasons. This was in response to the Chinese government hackers using IE flaws to hack into Google.
Now France is recommending the same thing.
Microsoft has protested, [...]
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IE hating has spread to government
January 19th, 2010 · View Comments · Web
Tags:Chrome·Firefox·IE·JavaScript·Opera·Safari·Sandbox·Security Model
Make IE run 10 times faster
September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Some initial performance tests are in and Google’s Chrome Frame plugin is posting benchmarks 10 times the speed of IE 8 rendering.
I’m already seeing a wave of announcements from Web 2.0 sites that they’re going to support the Chrome Frame plug-in. Many of them had written IE 6/7 off and either didn’t bother trying [...]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Cut Their Heart Out and Replace It
September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Google announced Google Chrome Frame. A plug-in for Internet Explorer that completely replaces the IE renderer and JavaScript engine (IE 6, 7 and 8). So everything you see in the browser window is rendered by Chrome. Google plans to puts links to the plug-in on their web apps when an IE user without the plug-in [...]
Which browser is fastest?
June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Depends on how you test fastest. Microsoft claims IE is the fastest browser. Everyone else, and I do mean EVERYONE else says it’s the slowest. So how do people test and how do they get the results they spout off?
Here’s the latest – http://www.codexon.com/posts/a-real-benchmark-real-websites-with-chrome-firefox-opera-safari-ie
This test is about rendering time. It doesn’t emphasize JavaScript, it shows [...]
Lies, damn lies and browser statistics
February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
There’s been talk about Firefox surpassing IE usage. This comes from statistics culled from w3schools.com. w3schools.com is a web development portal and they’ve been tracking visitors to their site for the last five years. January 2009 has Firefox surpassing all versions of IE, at 45.5% for Firefox and 44.8% for IE. Unfortunately this fails to [...]
IE 8 Compatibility
February 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Here’s a story which, while it gets some details wrong, gets the point right.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2067&tag=nl.e589
IE 8 is the first browser from Microsoft that runs in “standards mode”. This means that it doesn’t accept HTML with quirks and non-standard extensions. Ironically, most of those quirks and non-standard extensions were created by Microsoft in older IE [...]
