Extra Future[… and Web Developers around the world have the confusing feeling of wanting to hug someone at Microsoft.][link]
[link]: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-automatic-upgrades-across-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7.aspx “IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7”
[Enables some of the most useful CSS3 features for IE6-8, such as border-radius, box-shadow, and linear-gradient][link]. This will save me hours every week.
[link]: http://css3pie.com/ “CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE”
[The idea that anyone doesn’t know what this guy is saying][link] makes me wonder why the US financial system doesn’t collapse more often due to the fucking insane IT systems in place at it’s major corporations.
In other words: [I hear next week he’s going to say it’s time to stop using floppy disks.][df]
[link]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1645 “It’s time to stop using IE6 | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com”
[df]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/01/18/ed-bott-ie “This link on Daring Fireball”
[Together, we can finally put the ‘ol bastard to bed][link].
[link]: http://www.bringdownie6.com/ “Bring Down IE 6: a campaign by .net magazine”
[A plugin for Internet Explorer on Windows that aims to bring modern HTML5 capabilities to IE][link]. I’m not sure exactly how much this will help web developers: One of the major sticking points that makes IE still so widely-used is that users in large organizations *aren’t allowed to install things*. Not even plugins.
[link]: http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ “Google Chrome Frame – Google Code”