Yesterday, while walking from launch, my freind Amnon David (the creator of jNext) told me that IE8 doesn’t work on hotmail.com.
Since IE8 release gained lots of credit by JavaScript Hackers (John Resig and many more), therefore, I couldn’t believe it until I saw it in my own eyes.
Plain and simple, the site is broken. Icons, [...]
Microsoft interoperability announcement is a significant switch and a remarkable milestone onto the way to make the world of software an open, standardized and perhaps free as well. Especially regarding the IE8 default behavior.
Read more at:
http://ejohn.org/blog/unbreaking-the-web/
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/interoperability/default.mspx
I have said in the past that IE would eventually become an open source browser and so it would. I [...]
I finally was able to fix a few minor bugs and compile a new version of my js-hotkeys module. Get your copy now (tar.gz || zip)
Js-Hotkeys is a jQuery plugin that lets you easily add and remove handlers for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination.
Read more at:
http://code.google.com/p/js-hotkeys/wiki/about
Live demo at:
http://jshotkeys.googlepages.com/test-static.html
In IE (v: 7.0.5730.11) all GET request are cached. Go figure why.
In order to solve this issue, you can either switch to POST, or add a time stamp to any url you send.
function uncache (url){
return url + “&uncache=” + new Date().getTime();
}
