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1	IE8 Review I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The his...	05-Mar-2008
2	Microsoft Anti-Trust Retrospective It was about 5 years between Netscape 4 and Mozilla 1.0. In that time, they lost about 80% market share. It was about 5 years between IE6 and IE7. In that time, they lost about 10% market share. Just in case there was any doubt about the argument tha...	05-Feb-2008
3	Reducing the Edit-Compile-Test Cycle There's a fairly obvious link between developer productivity and the edit/compile/test cycle. One of the big things wrong with Enterprise Java is that you swap the edit/compile/test cycle for an edit/compile/deploy/...	02-Aug-2006
4	Big IE change - ActiveX disabled by default From the Microsoft security center: So when we release the next cumulative IE security update, customers will only be able to interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded in certain web pages after manually activating their user interfaces by click...	30-Mar-2006
5	IE7 will make life hard for IE6 users This sequence of events ends up with the release of IE7 being a bit of a train wreck for many users. I'm not totally sure about the logic behind this sequence of events. What do you think? First the facts: The renderers in IE5.5 and IE6 are broadly...	07-Feb-2006
6	Canvas element for IE canvas .../ is an HTML element that first popped up in Safari, where it helped Apple create Dashboard. It is being standardized by What-WG and added into Mozilla 1.5. I guess that Konqueror may be able to get support easily from Safari, it is on the l...	02-Aug-2005
7	IE7 Reviews Update: See below. Since IE7 got out of the starting blocks yesterday some decent reviews are starting to come in. The most detailed review that I've seen so far is the Mezzoblue blog which looks at long list of IE6 rendering bugs and checks th...	29-Jul-2005

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