It’s been a few days now since the release by Chris Wilson on the official Internet Explorer Blog and the subsequent follow up by Eric Meyer and Aaron Gustafson (as requested) showing support for and explaining in detail the introduction of the X-UA-Compatible Meta switch. Now the post to read here is the Microsoft one. That is primary to the whole deal, it explains somewhat why this was done.
This week on twitter Molly Holzschlag live tweeted the conversation with Bill Gates at Mix n’ Mash not that the twitter feed really had any important information in it. Anyway Molly did put the seemingly sanitised highlights of the conversation on her blog, thanks for pushing the points Molly.
The topic centred around Web Standards (recommendations for the purists) and IE8 development and the resultant loss of transparency that the development team used to have. Bet you have noticed that too, been very quite on the IE8 development news front hasn’t it (update: yes silence does usually mean we commonly think inaction even if MS says it isn’t sitting on its hands). So like us all Molly and others are smelling the old Microsoft rat.
Adobe have been waving this about for a while. The proposal to take Photoshop and convert it into an online application like Google Docs (Writely anyone). When I first heard of this I thought there is no way Adobe are going to be able to take the complete breadth and power of the full version of Photoshop and put that into a javascript or flex modular application with server side extensions. I rolled my eyes and muttered “we shall see”.
The curse of any blog is the endless stream of comment spam. In some cases this has lead a number of predominant popular bloggers to turn comments off all together. Which in away defeats the purpose of a blog altogether doesn’t it. Well this blog used to get its fair share of spam. Okay we aren’t up there in the two to three thousand pieces of comment spam a day. But for this small blog it was in the range of two to three hundred comments a day. Then in all changed. Now it’s 1 to 2 pieces of spam a day. So what did I do to reduce to the level of spam.
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