Internet Explorer is the black sheep of the browser community. It’s about as standards compliant as the overweight kid in the school athletics team, and as insecure as Fort Knox with the front door open. Annoyingly though it’s still out there and being used. Now there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. Social networking [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 14
Don’t install IE7 before Windows XP SP3
The Windows XP Service Pack 3 is available again and many users have already made the switch to protect their system with the latest security updates. If you have installed Internet Explorer 7 before updating the system to the third Service Pack and decided to uninstall it again you might have noticed that the option [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Internet Explorer 7 Standalone Edition
If you have been using Internet Explorer 6 for a while and decided to download and install Internet Explorer 7 you may have noticed that you cannot launch Internet Explorer 6 afterwards anymore. This is extremely frustrating to webmasters who want to make sure that their websites are compatible to both Internet Explorer 6 and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Improve Internet Explorer with IE Surfgear
Tiny text that can’t be changed. Background textures that hurt your eyes. A font color with a low contrast to the background color, e.g. dark blue font on dark background. I guess we all have experienced websites that had a design like this, always thought it was there to hurt the visitor because I could not think of any other reason why someone would do things like that.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Internet Explorer 6 crashes when loading websites after update
A lot of users are still working with Internet Explorer 6 either because their company did not make the switch to Internet Explorer 7 yet or because they don’t know that a new version is already out. They might be perfectly happy with it but some will probably consider switching to IE7 or another browser when they experience the following odd behavior.
Running different browsers
Want to run the 5 big browsers (Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1,x and 2,x and Opera 9) at the same time?
Here is a little guide on how to do that.