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1. Comment - Internet Explorer 8 to feature 'super' Web standards mode

   (Jan 22, 2008 - 7:47 PM)

   First off, quirks mode emulates the behavior of IE 5.x, not IE 6. IE 6 introduced the DOCTYPE switch, which triggered the browser to switch to standards mode. The problem is that standards mode really wasn't standards compliant. When IE7 came out with better standards compliance, it broke a lot of sites that were written to IE 6's level of compliance.
   
   To prevent this from happening again with IE8, this new META tag was proposed by a Microsoft-WASP working group. What it proposes to do is activate a certain rendering engine given a parameter to the new META tag. For instance, if the tag specified IE8, then IE would use the IE8 rendering engine to render the page. If it specified IE6, then IE6 would be used to render the page. This means that when a new version of IE is released (that supports stronger adherence to the standards), current sites do not break because they are still rendered using the old engine version. If a web developer wants to take advantage of the new features present in the new version of the rendering engine, they simply change the contents of the META tag to reflect the new version of IE.
   
   This new META tag should help prevent the "breakage" of the web that IE7 caused a couple of years ago. By forcing people to opt-in to standards compliance mode, browser update-related breakage should be minimalized to almost zilch.

2. Comment - Windows Media Player 11 Released

   (Oct 30, 2006 - 7:47 PM)

   Actually, there is a "Firefox Player". It is called Songbird and can be found at www.songbirdnest.com. Just a warning, though, that this is currently only a developer preview release (version 0.2) and not yet ready for public consumption. It does look to have a bright future.

3. Comment - JavaScript Flaw Affects Mozilla, IE

   (Jun 9, 2006 - 7:52 PM)

   This just in:
   Secunia has deicovered a flaw in Unix/Linux that could cause all of your files to be deleted. THis can be triggered by running the command 'rm -rf /' with root priveleges. Secunia has given this flaw a critical warning because it can render a system useless. Linus Torvalds has responded by telling the people at Secunia to go screw themselves until they can actually find a legitimate flaw, or a girlfriend, whichever comes first.

4. Comment - Mozilla to Issue Firefox Security Fix

   (Apr 28, 2006 - 10:05 PM)

   The version numbers that they were using (1.8.x.x) are the version numbers for Gecko, the rendering engine used by Firefox. Since the fixes that they are making are actually to Gecko, they used those version numbers in the quote because they were more accurate.
   
   If you were wondering why Gecko's version numbers were higher than Firefox's, it is because Gecko was originially used in the Mozilla Suite (Seamonkey Project), which is currently at the 1.8 level.