Tag: Internet Explorer
Windows 7 and “No such interface supported” error
So, I connect my brand new monitor (details to follow) and attempt to look at the display settings in Windows (I’m running Windows 7 64-bit to be more precise). Except all I get is a pop-up boxed titled “explorer.exe” which states “No such interface supported”. I’d also noticed that links in the Control Panel were [...]
Die IE6, die
Microsoft doesn’t want Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) to die and, indeed, they’ve announced that they will continue to support it until 2014. IE6 was launched in 2001 yet remains popular. Most of these users, I suspect, are businesses – we use it at my place of work. Except, there’s a growing back lash against the use of this version of the browser. So, what’s [...]
New, unexciting software releases
Internet Explorer 8 and Presto have been launched and I’ve been left deeply, deeply underwhelmed.
Internet Monitoring
When you have young children it’s important to monitor their online activity. As my daughter has got older, however, I have reduced the amount of such monitoring I do, giving her more privacy. At first I used CyberPatrol , which is a paid-for product that will do everything from barring particular websites to time restricting program [...]
Browser Sizes
Now, without going into the wrongs and rights of it all, most of my websites follow a familiar theme of being a set width. This blog, even though it’s WordPress, is, as is BMTG and Copy+ . This width is designed to fit on the width of what I deem to be the smallest screen that a [...]
So, how it Chrome doing?
I thought I’d check out my site stats to see how Google Chrome is doing (now that I know Google Analytics can track it separately) since it was launched on the 2nd. The least techy of my sites is BMTG , which garners just 1.67% of users from Chrome. Next up, Copy+ is 3.55%. This site is 5.66%. Not fantastic, but [...]
Two things
I’ve learnt two things today. First of all, it’s possible to crash IE 6 via a single line of code… <style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table> It doesn’t crash Firefox, Opera, etc. For whatever reason, it causes a fatal error in mshtml.dll. The second thing I’ve learnt today, thanks to a throw-away line in a magazine, is that you can email a Wii console . The [...]
Installing a second Firefox build
Before, I talked about installing the beta of Internet Explorer 8 for website test purposes. Unfortunately, and I covered this also, it doesn’t sit with existing IE installations, unlike Firefox which you simply install into a seperate folder. Now, and this comes from experience, all may not go well when two Firefox installations try to [...]
Internet Explorer 8
The first Beta of IE8 has been released for developers. And, yes, I have a copy. First impressions? Well, apart from the first run after the install hanging, and it prompting me during the install for how I’d like it set-up and then not doing what I asked, it’s gone relatively smoothly I’ve not had [...]
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When is a PC not a PC?
When Microsoft Update thinks I’m using a Mac. Yes, last night I went to get some updates from Microsoft Update and I got the message… Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site. This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating systems only. To find updates for Microsoft products that are designed [...]
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