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What capabilities of Adobe Flash are not present in the WinRT API?
As from March 2013, Microsoft allows Adobe Flash content to play by default on its immersive Internet Explorer 10: http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/03/11/new-ie-10-flash-policy.aspx
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How the Compatibility View in IE works behind the scenes
When I remote connect to my work PC, in IE10, the juniper remote client service which is basically a plugin executed in the browser does not run. I need to turn on compatibility view to see it. My ...
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Bothering to cater to non-JavaScript clients? [duplicate]
Considering that it's April, 2013; do I still need to worry about non-JavaScript capable/enabled clients?
Note: This question excludes having helper text with: JavaScript is required to view this ...
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Justify moving beyond IE7
I work within a closed environment that defines supported browsers organization-wide. Put another way: you can't use it unless it's an approved install.
Given that (soon-to-be-formerly) Twitter ...
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Why does Internet Explorer have so many incompatibilities with other browsers?
Internet Explorer has a number of proprietary features that aren't found in other browsers as well as a number of incompatibilities with the standards. Does anyone have an idea what is the cause of ...
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Browser support for internal corporate tools
We are on the verge of a conversion. For years, our company supported only IE for its internal (intranet) home-built tools.
Since a few of our users are still on XP, which means IE only goes up to ...
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Why Firefox caching work will reset in version 3 but version 16 don't?
I am developing a web application and have the app deployed into Tomcat server. Tested on IE and Firefox and are working fine. Meaning when I close the browser and reopen the app, the data will be ...
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Why do browsers leak memory?
A colleague and I were speaking about browsers (using a browser control object in a project), and it appears as plain as day that all browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera) display the same ...
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Web standards or risk avoidance?
My company is building an App Engine application. The app encounters a bug (possibly due to an issue with App Engine itself, as per our research) on IE9, but it cannot be reliably reproduced and is ...
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The Box Model: Internet Explorer vs. W3C
Today, the Internet Explorer Box Model problem is mostly a non-issue. Most web developers place a <!DOCTYPE> tag to enforce standards compliance, and nobody really cares about supporting ...
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How quickly is the silent IE upgrade likely to propagate to end users? What about managed corporate IT infrastructures?
According to this article from the BBC and this post on Microsoft's Exploring IE Blog, Microsoft has planned to automatically upgrade Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7's IE to the latest ...
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Why is it unrealistic to expect all browsers to support the same standards? [closed]
Ideally, we would have different browsers supporting the same standards and same code producing the same result on all browsers.
That hasn't happened yet. What are the reasons why?
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What does it mean to drop support for Internet Explorer 6? [closed]
When Facebook, Youtube, and even Microsoft themselves say that they've "dropped support for IE6", what do they really mean? Youtube still functionally works fine in IE6. If they mean that they've ...
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How can a Mac or Unix owner fix/develop webpages for IE6/IE7?
I work on Debian and before Debian I was on Ubuntu. In my previous job, we simply ignored IE6, but at my present job a page must work flawlessly for IE6 onwards. The one wayout for me is to set up a ...
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What should we tell our unsupported IE6 users?
In the upcoming version of our web app, we've broken IE6, and we don't intend to fix it. We've had a clear warning posted for IE6 users for some months; we've decided it's time not to support it.
My ...
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What is the most accurate/frequent report on browser usage on the Internet? [closed]
I'm determining which browsers a new site should support. I'm looking for a respected and accurate (as possible) report on the browser versions that are currently in use. This report should, at ...
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Arguments to homologate Firefox in a Company
I developed a web project for my company and this project was designed to use Mozilla Firefox (including the javascript (jQuery)). However, now the company wants the project to be transferred to ...
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When will IE6 be irrelevant?
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I consider Netscape or IE5.5 to be irrelevant for the following reasons:
Market share is negligible
Mindshare is minimal - few developers still talk about the ...
