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Tag: web browser

  • Image representing post: A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

    A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

    The little-told story of how a rogue team of YouTube engineers in 2009 helped hasten IE6's downfall by adding a deprecation warning to the top of the site's homepage...

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    • posted 10 May, 2019
  • Installing NonStopHammerTi.me as a standalone PWA in Edge

    Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps

    Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.

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    • posted 19 April, 2019
  • Image representing post: I Used The Web For A Day On Internet Explorer 8

    I Used The Web For A Day On Internet Explorer 8

    ...
    Who In The World Uses IE8?
    Before we start; a disclaimer: I am not about to tell you that you need to start supporting IE8.

    There’s every reason to not support IE8. Microsoft officially stopped supporting IE8, IE9 and IE10 over three years ago, and the Microsoft executives are even telling you to stop using Internet Explorer …

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    • posted 22 March, 2019
  • Firefox Finally Appeals

    As you may all know, I'm a die-hard supporter of the Opera web browser, despite many of my friends now claiming that Firefox is superior. I've been following the Mozilla project for a long while (haven't we all), and on the many occasions I've tried Firefox (and it's grandparents) I've always been unimpressed. It's always …

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    • 15 comments
    • posted 16 February, 2005
  • Online Banking

    NatWest phoned me today in response to my complaint the other day that their online banking service refused to support Opera, my web browser of choice, seemingly for no good reason. I threatened to take my account elsewhere. Regardless, they've promised to look into it and try to make the site Opera-compatible, and I've said …

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    • posted 28 August, 2003

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