Browsersphere

This time around we’re going to focus on Internet Explorer, since it hasn’t gotten much love around these parts lately.  However, before I get to the links, I just want to say that keeping a finger on the pulse of Internet Explorer is a task I wouldn’t wish upon anybody.  You literally have to crawl your way through piles and piles of end user complaints about script errors and outright functionality failures (e.g. bookmarks not working at all or home pages never loading) and questions about how the browser can be removed for good from users’ systems, permanently.

Once you get past all that, though, you do tend to find some interesting links, not necessarily all positive, but at least substantive.  So without further ado, here goes…

• Rowen Atkinson hates Internet Explorer “with the heat of 1000 suns,” but refrains from telling us how he really feels.
• Colin Cochrane explains why he feels Internet Explorer did not kill XHTML.
• TechWhack covers why Microsoft’s recent settlement with Eolas will make Internet Explorer less annoying.
• FlvGetter makes downloading .flv files from Internet Explorer as simple as a right-click.
• This ZDNet Australia article covers in detail how to install IEs4Linux (which was covered here before) on Ubuntu.
• Learn how to fake max-width in Internet Explorer via phydeaux3.
• Microsoft may be considering throwing standards to the wind explicitly, and not just implicitly.
• For those who think Firefox is a memory hog (you’re not alone), A Day in Paradise has a screenshot of Internet Explorer using up over a GB of RAM.
• 101 ways to make that annoying click sound go away in Internet Explorer (or one definitive one).
• Neek Blog wonders why Google would promote Internet Explorer.
• IE7Pro 1.2 was released on October 30, 2007.
• Internet Explorer saved one mac user.
• Do you recognize this morphed logo?
• Companion.JS is apparently to Internet Explorer what Firebug is to Firefox.

Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Tips and Tricks, Web Standards