MetaFilter posts tagged with ie and browser

History of the browser user-agent string

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:31:46 -0800

History of the browser user-agent string

New browsers and tools

hockeyman — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:16:37 -0800

Revamping the browser Browser add ons such as Browster for IE and Firefox or entirely new browsers such as Flock (limited info) promise to rework the way browsing has been done during the IE only years from 1997 to 2004. More inside...

A taste of Internet Explorer v7?

bobbyelliott — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 04:43:44 -0800

Maxthon website Internet Explorer has not been updated for some time and competing browsers have improved on its ageing feature-set. But there's no need to ditch IE. Maxthon provides tabbed functionality and a lots more besides to give you a taste of what is likely to be included in IE7.

Internet Explorer - We discovered the web.

sjvilla79 — Sat, 28 May 2005 14:04:29 -0800

Internet Explorer - We discovered the web. Check out this humorous parody site created for Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer. Something tells me this won't be up for too much longer though.

Internet Explorer 7 announced

j.p. Hung — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:38:34 -0800

Internet Explorer 7 announced We've heard about it for a while and it's been discussed here before. Will the new version of I.E. be able to hold its own against open source browsers like Firefox?

All your plugin capability are belong to us

aaronshaf — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:40:25 -0800

Eolas® Technologies Inc. owns the plugin concept. Meet US Patent 5,838,906: "The patent claims to cover mechanisms for embedding objects within distributed hypermedia documents, where at least some of the object's data is located external to the document, and there is a control path to the object's implementation to support user interaction with the object." Eolas sued Microsoft, was awarded $521 million, Microsoft is appealing, and the W3C held (Macromedia hosted) an ad hoc meeting on the recent court decision and launched a discussion list. Microsoft plans to promptly make changes to Internet Explorer. If this follows through, what are the negative and positive implications?

TNLNYC — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 20:11:43 -0800

One browser to rule them all... Looks like IE's win in the browser wars is strengthening its position as the de facto browser as more and more developers code to IE and IE only. I know a lot of MeFiers are developers. What do you do when you develop your sites?

ericost — Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:39:44 -0800

You know their server isn't particularly secure; well neither is their browser.