Usability, Web Sites, and SEO in Kansas City » Quality http://www.usablewebb.com usablewebb.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:30:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Microsoft: Help Us Kill IE6 – Pete LePage -– An Event Apart Seattle 2010 http://www.usablewebb.com/2010/04/05/microsoft-help-us-kill-ie6-%e2%80%93-an-event-apart-seattle-2010/ http://www.usablewebb.com/2010/04/05/microsoft-help-us-kill-ie6-%e2%80%93-an-event-apart-seattle-2010/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:30:18 +0000 garrett http://usablewebb.com/?p=278 Continue reading →]]> We need your help getting rid of Internet Explorer 6. IE6 gets you from point A to point B, but doesn’t have a lot of extra bells, whistles or safety features. In 2001 it was competing with Netscape 4.

Five years later, Microsoft shipped another browser. Who thought IE was ever gonna come back? When we started working on IE8, we asked, how can we do this without screwing people over again? That’s why there are two modes in IE7.

You can put meta tag on page to determine the rendering engine for IE 7 users, though it causes problems for IE6 users. Microsoft has a vested interest to get users to IE 7 or 8. Moving them to Windows 7.

Free tools for IT Professionals, Designers and Developers: IE Compatibility Toolkit, Fiddler, ExpressionWeb. Some tools expire every x days.

Microsoft is working on users who don’t have auto-updates enabled.

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview. Four things; performance, the same mark up, GNU-Powered HTML5, Platform Preview and Feedback.

How Can You Help?

Encourage upgrades and tell the users why and how their experience will be improved. Consider the level of support you provide to IE6 users. Analyze usage on the site you’re working on.


]]> http://www.usablewebb.com/2010/04/05/microsoft-help-us-kill-ie6-%e2%80%93-an-event-apart-seattle-2010/feed/ 0 Periodically check your site for broken links http://www.usablewebb.com/2008/09/03/periodically-check-your-site-for-broken-links/ http://www.usablewebb.com/2008/09/03/periodically-check-your-site-for-broken-links/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:48:16 +0000 garrett http://usablewebb.com/?p=13 Continue reading →]]> Use tools such as Mozilla Firefox and the Link Evaluator extension to quickly check all links on a given page. Another way to check links is to use Firefox or Internet Explorer 7, and hold down Ctrl (Open Apple - cmd key on Mac) on your keyboard as you click each link. The new links will open in tabs of the current browser window. Quickly flip through the tabs by pressing Ctrl-Tab (or Open Apple - cmd key Tab) on your keyboard, to close a tab press Ctrl-W (or Open Apple - cmd key W).

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