Noccy's Hideout » ie8 http://noccy.chillat.net Rants, Whines, and Nags Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:46:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Save the Internet! http://noccy.chillat.net/2009/06/save-the-internet/ http://noccy.chillat.net/2009/06/save-the-internet/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:49:52 +0000 Noccy http://noccy.chillat.net/?p=171 Lots of things have happened on the Internet lately. And I’ve been kinda quiet. Maintaining the Chillat.net network takes up quite a bit of time. Anyways, first of all Opera has reinvented the Web with Opera Unite. I’ll leave it open to discussion whether this is good or bad, but my $0.05 is that letting content get pulled from a users system in the fashion that’s being done here is never a good idea. Especially not if you’re targeting users, with lesser operating systems like Windows Vista.

Microsoft Australia has also apparently figured out that IE8 isn’t quite as interesting as they were hoping it would be. They have therefor set up a competition on Twitter where you can win $10,000 AUD if you find the magic hidden page that you can only see if you’re using Internet Explorer 8. Way to go.

Hopefully not too many sane users will downgrade to IE8 for this.

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