Posts Tagged ‘ie8’

Is your browser secure?

Friday, September 11th, 2009

HTTPS. SSL. CA. CRL. OCSP. Cessation of Operation. Confused yet?

Firefox 3 seems to be very proactive in the area of web security. Sometime last night, a client’s SSL certificate got inexplicably revoked by GoDaddy. Firefox was kind enough to give a big fat warning message that the certificate had been revoked, blocking access [...]

Coming to a Computer Near You: Internet Explorer 8

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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Microsoft released the IE8 Web browser in mid-March but is now pushing it through the automated Windows Update (over the last month, we’ve seen visits from IE8 more than double across a number of sites we monitor, up to almost 5% of all visits).

Why should you [...]

Oh Microsoft, how thoughtful! (IE8)

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Microsoft has thoughtfully allowed site owners to automatically tell IE8 browsers to render in “compatibility mode”. They stress that this is supposed to be a temporary solution, but it’s really easy. Two routes:

IE8 released for download today

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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Push won’t start for a little while. It’s supposed to be better at being standards-compliant, which “causes problems for sites that were optimized for IE”.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10199582-56.html