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Friday, October 23, 2009 3:06 PM

IE8 and privacy , part 1

I wanted to talk about the privacy enhancements in IE8 , and to save you from reading something of epic length this is only part 1. First, I do know there are some poor souls out there who work for benighted organizations which can’t get off IE6 - so
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:35 PM

Another reason why I like IE8 – dealing with broken scripts

IE 8 just locked up on me. This in and of itself is a Bad Thing. I’ve got into the habit of having lots of tabs open in IE - I checked it’s currently 70 (why … ? because I can, it’s a pile off stuff I’m thinking about, going back to or what ever). IE
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:36 AM

Now available on ebay … I’ll have a slice of that !

I’ve been pretty enthused about IE8 since it got to Beta 2. Yes there are some sites which need to be put into “Compatibility view”, which would be better called “IE 7 view” as it renders sites correctly which rely on IE7’s departure from standards. There
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:40 PM

IE 8 – something else I’m growing to really like

A few days back I wrote about acceleators in IE 8 and talked about how search box had been streamlined as well. I knew we’d re-worked how tabs worked but my first reaction was “yeah … but so what”. I’m a big fan of tabs: IE 7 changed my experience of
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:40 PM

Accelerators in IE8

Internet Explorer 8 seems to be guided by the same “many little improvements” philosophy that has driven Windows 7 – or put another way it’s not packed with radical new features , and in some cases I find it hard to be sure if something really wasn’t
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:08 PM

Windows 7 federated search.

I was a little surprised to find it was nearly 3 years ago that I first wrote about Open Search… So first off… Open search provides a specification for XML to describe search services. It’s easy to build this XML, and there’s a Microsoft Page which builds
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:15 AM

IE 8 testing - part 2

One of the things about a new browser is that various web sites expect particular ID strings to identify browsers they know and get awkward if they don't recognize the browser ID. So one of the nice things in IE 8 beta 2 is that you can select compatibility
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:59 PM

IE 8 is coming: are you ready ?

IE8 has features to please users, which makes me expect a pretty rapid uptake (Read Eileen for a user's eye view of accelerators) . We've also tried to remove the standards issues which annoy developers. Here's the problem though. If you have diverged
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:31 PM

Blockers. What would we want from IE 8... or 9

I have used this blog to grumble about "Flash turds" - those super-annoying adverts whose determination to grab the eye brings them to the point of being a test for epilepsy. I'm not seeing many of them being built in Silverlight, yet, but it
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:47 PM

What else did I miss ?

So I said that we'd done a lot while I was away , other gems now sifted from my inbox include. As well as all the other Server "SKUs" I mentioned before , we've announced HPC Server 2008; (formerly called Compute Cluster Server - CCS) the beta is downloadable
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:59 PM

One small step for search...

I was talking to a customer (I know he reads this blog, so no names). He was having some trouble because two parts of Microsoft weren't communicating the way you'd expect them to. And I said in passing that one thing which we are unjustly accused of from
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Friday, August 03, 2007 2:13 PM

"Vanity" searching

After being taken to task by some recent commenters I'm a bit hesitant about suggesting that I (or others) are vain, but I can't come up with a better tag for it. I find that quite often I want to find a post on my blog. Because I often write about things
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:39 PM

Windows Vista "breaking" OWA

One of the things that annoys any technical person is when you get asked a question and have to shrug and say "No, never seen that one", even if you suspect there is a genuine problem. I've had a couple of people ask me about problems with Outlook web
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Monday, December 11, 2006 6:48 PM

Does your company discriminate against people with disabilities ?

This isn't a question about your employment practices. In recent years a lot of work has been done to make buildings usable by wheelchair users; but how many of the people you do with visit your office. I've known for some time that websites do a lousy
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Monday, November 20, 2006 4:12 PM

Royal Bank of Scotland (and Natwest) just missed my business.

[Note: the information below was correct when it was published, please read the update at the end] You can judge my loyalty to the Williams F1 team by the fact that - after several miserable years of results, I still call myself a fan. Williams' main
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