Tag Archives: microsoft

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.” Hmmm…. I think my OS version is great actually. I like my Mac OS X. Websites that rely on Windows are a thing of [...]

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

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Shi landed in trouble three years ago when the Chinese government prohibited journalists to report on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
When Shi forwarded the notice to human rights groups, the Chinese government pressured Yahoo to give them the name of the account holder, and they did so. Shi [...]

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Running IE 6 and IE 7

October 27, 2007 – 6:26 pm

Anyone who does web design learns quickly that Microsoft Internet Explorer is a pain in the butt. Why Microsoft has decided to create its own bizarre standards is a question that only Microsoft can answer, but it’s the web designers who have to deal with it. With the emergence of IE 7 a Microsoft created [...]

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Using <object> in Internet Explorer

August 22, 2007 – 10:44 am

As a web designer I hate Internet Explorer. Microsoft often makes their own rules despite there being rules in place already. I will say however that IE is getting better at following standards with each new version of its browser. The Big Problem™ is that sometimes IE interferes with a page remaining valid XHTML. [...]

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