If you’re a website developer, you’ll frequently come across clients who would want their websites working on Internet Explorer, especially legacy versions of the browser. Even though the world has moved on to much later versions of the browser as well as Firefox, Chrome, etc. many organisations still use traditional versions of the browser.
Micrsoft has just released the Internet Explorer 8 Language pack for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This pack allows you to install specific resource files which will users to view the user interface of IE8 in various supported languages. Individual language packs are available in the following languages, Arabic, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Microsoft earlier announced the availability of their new and improved Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft promised a much faster, easy to use and more secure browser for your comfort. They offer security features in direct response to people’s increasing concerns about online safety.
If you’re an Internet Explorer fan or just a collector of software, then this one is for you. The Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions.
The Twitter Blog reported last week that people are receiving emails which contain links to a phishing site asking you to enter your login details. I decided to check it out today and was surpised to see that the entire twitter interface has been converted to that of Facebook, which means that they are now getting ready for a Facebook phishing scam! Good news is that Internet Explorer (with Website Checking Enabled), Firefox 3 (Firefox 2 did not block the site) and Google Chrome all display big warnings.
Take it from Microsoft to jump into the fray for Online Storage and then show why they can attract customers / users. In an announcement on the Windows Live SkyDrive blog, Microsoft announced some updates to their online storage service. Space has been increased five fold from 5GB to 25GB of free online storage Control your data.
If you’re on a Mac or you have already upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, then you’ll be pretty lost about how your site looks like on lower versions of Internet Explorer. For me this is a big problem because half my visitors to my several sites are still using IE6 and you have to admit that IE6 is a pathetic browser. IE7 is a lot more compliant and displays sites a lot correctly than its predecessors.
Less than a month after Trend Micro discovered Vista flaws being sold off for $50,000 in the underground market by hackers, VeriSign’s iDefense Labs has placed an $8,000 bounty on remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7. This is part of its three-year old Vulnerability Contributor Program which compensates individuals who provide iDefense with advance notification of unpublished vulnerabilities and/or exploit code. 3Com’s Zero Day Initiative is a similar program.
I complained about a major bug with this design in Internet Explorer 6. The sidebar kept scrolling to the bottom. I didn’t have IE6 with me and hence was stuck.
Phishing Scams have been a major problem for large corporations. As of today there aren’t any sure fire solutions. IE, Firefox and Opera as well today implement a check to see if the site is fraudulent or not.
I’m rather frustrated. I’ve been using Internet Explorer 7 at home and didn’t realize that this site is all screwed in Internet Explorer 6 until it was pointed out to me. I’m at a friends place trying to debug the problem, but it just doesn’t seem to want to go away!