Practical Technology

The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed version of the Web’s foundation markup language, is to make all resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable across all platforms. Well, that was the theory. In practice, things aren’t going to change that much from today’s Web, with its reliance on proprietary [...]

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As usual at Pwn2Own, the contest to see who can hack ‘secure’ programs and systems the fastest at the CanSecWest security conference, the big loser was Microsoft, which saw IE 8 on a fully-patched Windows 7 system get cracked in less than two minutes. That said, everyone’s Web browsers were being cracked open left and [...]

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I hereby officially proclaim Internet Explorer 6 to be a dead browser walking. Even though IE 6 still somehow manages to keep 19.8% of the Web browser market, IE 6 is a late Web browser! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If Microsoft hadn’t nailed it to the operating system, it [...]

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You can download the next generation of Internet Explorer 9, but I really don’t recommend it unless you’re an expert at both Windows and Web browsers. I qualify on both those grounds — What? You think I only work on Linux? — So I took a quick peek at this so not-ready for prime time [...]

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Last week, Microsoft got yet another security black eye when a new, ready-to-be exploited IE security hole was revealed. This week, Microsoft is trying to redeem itself with a pair of quick fixes for the problem. The IE 6 and 7 security hole is a serious one and it’s already being exploited so you should [...]

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