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At the times it seems European Commission’s anti-monopoly policies are there for Microsoft exclusively. Even so, Microsoft has complied and done a lot to meet the regulation for European market. This time though, it seems Microsoft is not willing to lose out and is about to outsmart EC. Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhat an interesting discussion took off on Twitter between me (@tekkie) and Jason Young of award-winning Virion (@virion_ca) about the IE6 Update technique. While the goal of such a technique looks decent, it’s mainly of benefit to developers. Read the rest of this entry »

On April 10th Microsoft Program Management announced Internet Explorer 8 distribution in Automatic Update of Windows. The update will be optional on the opt-in basis with the options to Ask Me Later, Install and Don’t Install. Read the rest of this entry »

Years ago, for Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft took a shortcut to ‘extended CSS support’ that they called the Dynamic Properties. Despite the fancy name it had nothing to do with W3C Cascading Style Sheet standards nor was it available cross-platform. Now, as the software giant has realized the impact of open standards, they are giving up on these non-standard developments. Read the rest of this entry »

Good news for the developers – IE8 will pass Acid2, a test case, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards.
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Netscape, the greatest browser of all time, has reached its EOL.
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While everyone is talking more and more about Web 2 and some folks are even keeping themselves busy defining Web 3, very few of them (not to say none) have gone much further than listing some new applications with a shiny balloon logotype.
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