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Number One Sign of a Bad Website “Wrong OS”

April 18, 2008 – 9:58 am

A student of mine told me about a website, I thought I’d check it out. I clicked a link and was told that I had the “Wrong OS Version.” I think my OS version is great actually.

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Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights.

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Running IE 6 and IE 7

October 27, 2007 – 6:26 pm

IE 7 is far far better at following the standards set for web browsers, but that doesn’t help for IE 6. But that isn’t the problem, the problem is that IE 7 copies over IE 6. It can install IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6, or any combination thereof.

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Using <object> in Internet Explorer

August 22, 2007 – 10:44 am

Also, by limiting what refreshes it cuts down on page load and makes it so the main page never has the refresh blink (that second of white before things load in the browser). The key is the classid: classid=”clsid:25336920-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13″ To learn more about using the element and making it work in IE read Brad Wrights discussion of the technique.

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