…, Solidify prototypes are now all pretty in IE 7 and IE 8, again.
Making a Good Thing Better
But what about feature ideas and requests? Those are important to, right? Uh, yeah! Notable was the first ZURBapp to grace the internet. It's clean, refined and doggone it, people like it. However, that doesn't mean there's no room for improvement.
When designer Brendan Miller found us on live chat to offer some suggestions, we listened. Brendan expressed …
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That test uses IE8 on a reasonable residential Internet connection coming from the US. For accessing from Japan or on a mobile device, it is viscerally faster for me, probably due to the CDN which WPEngine uses.
Do You Have A Blog For Business? Use WPEngine
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…— a browser that's more than five years old! 54% are running IE8 , which is about three years old. But at least 36% are running a modern browser in IE9 .
7% of Basecamp users on undesirables
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…- Easily set up Microsoft's testing VMs for IE7, IE8 and IE9 under VirtualBox on Linux or OS X.
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Yesterday, I saw that a non-techie friend had IE8. I explained to her how we developers struggle with IE, especially < 9. I showed her examples of CSS3 websites and how they display on Chrome, Firefox and IE8. She was very surprised and said she thought they were all the same and will always update ASAP from now on. The moral is: Developers, don't think that people don't care. People naturally don't want to cause trouble to others. Explain to them what we go through. …
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…some cases the site might have 2 or 3 of these conditional stylesheets for IE7 and IE8 fixes also.
Adding conditional styles to the html tag
Recently I've started using something like this instead: <!--[if lt IE 7]><html class="ie6" lang="en-GB"><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7]><html class="ie7" lang="en-GB"><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8]><html class="ie8" lang="en-GB"><![endif]--> …
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…are on. There's a caveat with explorer downloading twice the javascript files (at least until IE8 there was), and if you want more info Paul Irish has it ready for you.
That was it! by following those steps we were able to make our site more secure and it took just some hours to set up. Now you can use FACTURAgem when you need to, without worrying who your neighbours are.
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…showing the desktops of interesting people or publishing an Automator workflow I use on a daily basis, I promise to continue improving the quality of the content and writing here as long as you promise to keep reading.
Anything newer than Internet Explorer 8
Which is somewhat sad because I am not bringing so much traffic that it should be crippling a web server. Whether that's the fault of WordPress or my previous host is up for debate.
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…Windows Phone as " IE 7.5" - it's basically IE7 with some IE8 features included. It's a decent, functional browser that I've been making very good use of (especially since I've been on the road a lot in the past few months ), but it's no IE9.
Luckily, that state of affairs won't last for too much longer. There's a team hard at work bringing IE9 to the Phone, and for the first time, the desktop and mobile versions of IE are built …
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Everything was going smoothly until we got to testing in IE 8, at which point we started seeing errors inside loops.
Turns out IE 8 doesn't like for() loops written like so:
for( var idx in items ) {
Instead, use the ol' fashioned way:
for ( var i = 0; i
Maybe in IE 9?
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