GitHub Explore daily email brought in this awesome repo today. It’s a collection of high resolution web browser logos with transparent backgrounds.
It’s not just the five or six major browsers. The collection covers more than 50 (!!!) different browsers, with different logos for different versions. This is one and only place to go for when you need that “Best viewed in Internet Explorer 6” sign.
If the World War III will ever start, it won’t be for oil or food. It will be the whole world jumping on China, in an attempt to destroy every single computer running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.
The developers of jQuery recently announced in a blog entry that jQuery 2.0 will drop support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The release will come in parallel with version 1.9, however, which will include support for older versions of IE. The versions will offer full API compatibility, but 2.0 will ‘benefit from a faster implementation that doesn’t have to rely on legacy compatibility hacks.
A few comments mentioned that dropping support for MSIE 6 and 7 is fine, but MSIE 8 is still widely used by people with Windows XP. The solution to the problem seems to be conditional tags. Since jQuery 2.0 will have fully compatible APIs to jQuery 1.9, something along the lines of:
<!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="jquery-1.9.0.js"></script> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte IE 9]> <script src="jquery-2.0.0.js"></script> <!--<![endif]-->
should solve the problem.
Via The Next Web I’ve learned that according to StatCounter global stats, Google Chrome has just overtaken Microsoft Internet Explorer as the web’s most used browser. These are very good news! For the amount of pain and suffering MSIE caused to web developers all around the world during the last decade or so, it truly deserves to crash and burst in flames. That not being a realistic option, being kicked out of the web slowly, but surely seems like a good alternative.
