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Java, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Windows Live Sign-in Cause Error

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Well, I have spent several months wondering why I couldn’t ever load any Java applets in IE 7. Not that it’s a big deal since I use FireFox more than Internet Explorer, for reasons obvious to many Web surfers. However, it kept nagging at me and so I looked into it today and found out the following:

Java loves to keep every update installed and separate on your system. I had nearly 1GB of java “updates” and JRE and JDK updates installed, each of them over 100MB, many over 200MB. What is the point of this Sun? Why force all of them to remain, if the current is the best one to use? Should it not prompt me whether or not I want to keep the old version, in case I need it for compatibility or something instead of automatically filling my hard drive with software that is not even used?

Windows Live Messenger installs the Windows Live Sign-in Helper and Windows Live Sign-in Control. Both causing issues. On my home system, under my wife’s profile, she opens IE7, only to have it load a Microsoft Live page, then redirect her to the MSN home page that she uses. It honestly adds several seconds, if not more, to the browser load time. The purpose? I am not sure, because my profile does not do this.

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Interesting Tool…BrowserCamp

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

I recently found an interesting tool call BrowserCamp that allows users to obtain a free screen shot of what their web site would look like in the Safari 2.0.4 web browser. It also offers paid memberships that allow users to login in via VNC to take control of a Mac OS X machine to use it for testing web sites with. Pretty cool little tool really! They even offer a referral program to allow one to obtain free time by referring other paid members. (And no the link here is not a referral link, but it should be!).

Here’s a screenshot of this site:

Screenshot from BrowserCamp

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XHTML, PHP, Validation and Browsers

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Recently for a school project I was working on, I had to develop an XTHML 1.1 Strict validated page and a validated CSS to style the page. This was not a problem in and of itself, however there were several problems that I encountered while trying to serve the pages to different browsers and to the W3C’s validator.

What this post will attempt to do is cover several items that I found necessary to accomplish a page that displayed properly in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Netscape 9, SeaMonkey, Opera and Safari for Windows. I have not fully tested the resulting pages on the Linux or Mac platforms yet, so I will attempt to do that when time permits. I did however use BrowserCamp to get a screen shot of what it looks like in Safari 2.0.4 and there were some CSS issues (I assume anyway).

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