One of the biggest dilemmas facing web developers is the incompatibility of various Internet Explorer versions with current web standards. Although Microsoft has promised CSS3 and even HTML5 support for IE9, Windows users, especially businesses, may continue to use IE8, IE7, or even the dreaded IE6 for years to come.
As a result, coding a site with exclusive CSS3 features will only alienate a large portion of your website’s visitors, and obligating them to download a standards-compliant browser, like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, will only come across as arrogant.
A possible solution to the problem is to use a modernizer, which is a script or application that uses a variety of tricks to make your site appear as it should in all browsers. CSS3 Pie is javascript-based modernizer that helps Internet Explorer recognize cool CSS3 features such as rounded corners, soft drop shadows, and gradient fills. It is quick, easy, and works most of the time with very little tweaking.
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Internet Explorer may not be the favorite browser among geeks, but sadly, it is still the most widely used browser in the World. In this article, let us take a look at the common problems in Internet Explorer (IE8 specifically) and its fixes.
In Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), the default download location is the Downloads folder in your user profile. However, some (if not, most) of you donot like this default download location and are looking for the ways to change it. For me, I prefer to place all my downloads on the Desktop. This is how you change the default downloads location in IE9.
Internet Explorer 9 beta was released a few days ago and one of the feature includes the pinning of any site to the taskbar. With a simple dragging and dropping of the tab to the taskbar, any site can be pinned to the taskbar and the users can quickly click on the icon to launch the site. In addition, IE 9 also allows webmaster to add jumplist items to the taskbar icon. This tutorial shows you how you can add jumplist items to your site.
For those who have installed Internet Explorer 9 beta last week, you will find your previous installation of Internet Explorer been replaced by this latest version. In addition, when you try to uninstall the application (via Control panel), you will find that you won’t be able to do so, simply because the IE 9 entry is not in the uninstallation list.
I might as well admit right up front – personally I’ve considered Internet Explorer to be somewhat of a joke for the past few years. A slow, incomplete, non-standards-compliant joke. Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh, perhaps not. Opinions aside, it’s hard to argue against the fact that it’s been playing technological catchup for the better part of the last decade as Mozilla, Opera, Apple, and now Google have all released browsers that surpass IE in most ways. When Microsoft announced IE9, I didn’t pay much attention. That is, until I saw the specs. Hardware accelerated graphics? Vector support? New UI? Could this really be an Internet Explorer worth using? Yesterday, Microsoft released the first beta package of IE9, and if you haven’t been following the development, you may be in for a surprise or two.
There has been much news and debate regarding HTML5 video, which is not even considered an official standard yet. The urgency from some individuals and organizations (particularly Apple), reflects the bad taste that Adobe Flash Player has left in many mouths. HTML5 video is an effort to make streaming video on the web more accessible, better integrated, and with increased performance.
Most, if not all, browsers provide you with the option to set it as the default web application in your system. The problem is, even though you have set Firefox or Google Chrome as your default, Windows 7 will still open some of the links in Internet Explorer. 
If statistics are anything to go by, Internet Explorer is the biggest and the most popular browser on the Internet. Of course, all of us geeks here know that statistics are not always correct … or fun.