Biggest Internet Explorer Problem With Javascript

December 22nd, 2005 On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users.

February 12th, 2004 Challenge: Resizing applet from within Java code. For example say the applet code calculates that the applet needs more space than it has been allocated, then how to go about it? Last time when faced with this problem I solved it with a nifty piece of Javascript method.

December 7th, 2007 Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion.

August 29th, 2004 Update: Mozilla group of browsers including Firefox now has proper support for applets. This post is no longer relevant.

October 21st, 2005 I use and test my web applications and blogs primarily on Firefox these days. I do however occassionally look at Internet Explorer.

February 7th, 2007 As a javascript developer using onload often you will find that other script authors too love to use onload. Unfortunately onload accepts a function name and your reassigning will prevent others from using onload.

July 6th, 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Despite some initial glowing reviews, Microsoft has been flooded with complaints about its new Internet Explorer 8 and has seen early users downgrade to the previous version, Information Week has reported.The software giant is hoping that its new browser will help stem a steady flight of surfers to rival products, most notably the open-source Firefox browser. According to the latest figures, Firefox now controls 22 percent of the browser market compared to 67 percent for Internet Explorer, which once enjoyed more than 90 percent of the market.

August 28th, 2006 I think few graphs will clearly illustrate the gulf of difference between these two leading browsers (Internet Explorer 6.x & Firefox 1.x) in terms of security. Let's start with our favorite whipping boy,market leader Internet Explorer 6.x, shall we? Internet Explorer 6.x Security Advisories Source: Secunia Firefox 1.x Security Advisories Source: Secunia Now let's look at their criticality.

November 16th, 2006 Internet Explorer (since 5.0) supports nodeValue() method to fetch the value of a node like Firefox or Opera, albeit with an exception. IE will provide the nodeValue only if the node is of type TextNode.

June 12th, 2009 Microsoft is to strip its Internet Explorer browser from the new version of its Windows 7 operating system that it sells in Europe, the company announced Thursday. Microsoft said the move was designed to meet criticism from European Union (EU) regulators who have launched an investigation into whether bundling the browser with the operating system is in breach of European anti-trust rules.

July 12th, 2007 We are few days away from redesigning this site. Here are few thoughts on what we want to achieve with this redesign effort.

May 6th, 2007 Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch to Linux but cannot do so because of strong requirement for testing on Internet Explorer. You are in luck.

July 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.

November 23rd, 2004 I was just looking at the IE vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Firefox compiled by Secunia. Before going further you have to understand that IE has been much longer than Firefox and hence have been more extensively looked at for vulnerabilities.