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• If you don't want to develop for IE8, you don't have to. There's only one tweak you need:
  meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"
  Backward-compatibility is amazing progress, considering that it's a Microsoft app, so at least they've done something right. The other thing they did right was to leave the stop/reload buttons immovable on the wrong side of the toolbar - that guarantees that users on Firefox won't even consider switching back. In reply to: "Worth the wait for IE 8 Release Candidate 1?"

  January 27, 2009

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• IE won the browser war by default, not by quality or stability. AOL bought Netscape and stopped development on it while Microsoft continued to work on IE. If a two-legged guy races against a one-legged guy and wins, he's still a loser. AOL bundled IE with their software, so letting Netscape rot was no accident. To continue the metaphor: The one-legged guy's missing leg was cut off by the two-legged guy's friend. That seems fair, right? In reply to: "IE 8 to be standards-compliant: Good for devs and users"

  March 10, 2008

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• Not paranoid enough.
  There is a Facebook feature that asks for your Yahoo login, then Facebook logs in to your Yahoo account and retrieves your address book data. This should not be possible.
  
  People shouldn't be stupid enough to enter their e-mail login on other sites in the first place, but that's too much to hope for. Yahoo needs to block Facebook and any other site that does this.

  June 28, 2007

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• Financial webware develpers: integrate or die
  Are any of the above a registered financial institution like a bank or a broker? Where's the Chase, or CitiCorp, or Wells Fargo financial planning webware? If the webware is not from a well-established financial institution, I can't trust that my data will be safe with them. Okay, maybe it's not 100% safe with my bank or broker site, either. But financial institutions are bound by financial security and privacy laws, whereas an independent financial webware company is not.
  
  Financial data belongs on financial institution websites - online banking, online broker, online credit card, etc. Broker sites already have many tools, but online banking is still little more than an online statement, with no budgeting or planning tools. Financial webware developers should expect to fail unless they make deals with the banks to get their tools integrated into their online banking sites. In reply to: "Your budget in a browser"

  December 29, 2006

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