Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

IE9 on the far horizon

Posted on in Browsers, WWW.

Microsoft have announced that there will be an Internet Explorer 9 (not a big surprise) and have given an early indication as to what it may include.

Headline features – faster with better standards support (in both cases playing catch up with Gecko, WebKit, Opera, etc.) and hardware accelerated graphics and font rendering which is something new and will improve the speed and quality of rendering across all sites not just ones that add new code.

No word yet on a release schedule, my personal guess would be late 2010 or early 2011 but as it’s Microsoft that could be well off.

One thing that concerns me is that the uptake by consumers may be slow. IE7 was the first release in five years and also shipped as part of Vista and IE8 ships as part of Windows 8 so users buying new machines got them automatically. With no new operating system the take up of IE9 may be slower.

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Nightmare Scenario

Posted on in My Life, Work, WWW.

Last night I had a dream in which someone had hacked our servers and replaced all the images with, correct pixel sizes and file names, “glamour” photos. Which was a rather odd thing for a hacker to do. We were debating whether to shut the site down whilst we fixed it, or leave it up and try to repair things on the fly. Could we restore the images directories from a backup or could we make the CMS republish everything?

Rather relieved to get into work to find everything working as normal; on the servers. All the desktops had been upgraded to MS Office 2007…

Very True Mood: (tired) tired
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Microsoft bashing, with stats

Posted on in WWW.

Opera Software have been busy (sadly not busy fixing the problems Opera browser has with Gmail) and have released the findings of MAMA – a huge study into what the web looks like at the code level. I love this sort of study, but I am a huge geek.

This made me laugh out loud, from the part of the survey looking at whether HTML validates:

Authoring feature used Criteria used to match Quantity validating Total quantity using technology Percentage validating
IIS Web Server Detection of “iis” string in HTTP header Server field 24,743 883,854 2.80%
Apache Web Server Detection of “apache” string in HTTP header Server field 110,834 2,347,328 5.38%

Pages served from IIS are nearly half as likely to validate as pages served from Apache. Is anyone surprised by that finding? Is it due to the difficulty of making ASP (classic or .NET) output valid code or is it due to the mindset of the typical ASP developer?

Very True Mood: (cynical) cynical
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