In the news this morning, I stumbled across an article, EU: 100 million Microsoft users to choose browser. Reading this, there were a few instances of questionable logic.
The first instance (emphasis added):
Microsoft is starting this month to send updates to Windows computers in Europe so that when computer users log on, they will see a [...]
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Go to http://www.asp.net and do a search to see a nifty AJAXy popup search results box, powered by Live Search and including some advertising (which I deliberately grayed out below). Look closely, and you’ll see the URLs in the search results (circled in red) have spaces where spaces just shouldn’t be. No surprise, this happens [...]
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I noticed that TableKit’s sort performance using IE7 grew progressively worse as tables grew in size (rows, not columns). I found the source of the problem and put in a simple fix to it. With the below change, sorting in IE7 is nearly as fast as in Firefox — that is, nearly instantaneous.
At [...]
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I have a web application that allows the user to press the F2 key to bring up a modal box search window (the modal box script is provided by ModalBox). Today, one of the users came to me and said that every time they press the ‘Q’ key in the search box, the modal box [...]
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I found yet another interesting bug in IE7, related to using Prototype’s Insertion.After command to insert additional table rows into an existing table. Apparently, IE7 will reverse the order of the table rows being inserted. As a proof of concept, I’ve set up an ie7 table insert bug test page to prove my point.
Here’s how [...]
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