BurningbirdUpdate Oops! Available now. For those continuing to click the download button, IE8 will be available at 2pm PST, which is 4pm CST, by my SVG clock. More later, but we can confirm that IE8 does not support the XHTML MIME type. My opinion, based on what I’m reading and seeing, Microsoft will never directly support […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that’s really unhappy news this morning: Dare Obasanjo is quitting his weblog. Dare’s been around weblogging as long as I have, and I’m sorry to see him go. Dare’s always had challenges with what he could write in his space. He’s an outspoken person who doesn’t hold back criticism, even […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Continuing from previous post Following are the web log entries that contain the new MSIE 8.0 user agent string, with the specific MS IP address blocked out: —-.microsoft.com – – [04/Mar/2008:01:55:29 +0000] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1” 200 1406 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Andrew Orlowski, though he offered me a writing job once and then yanked it. I don’t always agree with him, and I don’t always agree with how he phrases some of his material, but he typically has a good point. Take the recent Nine Inch Nails album release. Several […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Others might talk about Microsoft’s move to the clouds, but one decision MS made shows its feet are firmly planted on solid ground: IE8 will be standards mode by default. This was a good decision, but it’s also an ominous decision. Not a word on support for the XHTML mime type. […]