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Would you rather be a Navigator or an Explorer?

There's an interesting comment in this Amazon user review of The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556159390/105-1849539-8990040]: > My favorite entry, especially fun to find in light of Microsoft's legal problems arising in part from its relationship

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The Lost Art of Progressive HTML Rendering

One thing I dislike about ASP.NET is that it renders the entire web page in memory before sending one single byte of that page to the browser. Consider an ASP.NET page with an embedded DataGrid that relies on ten complex database queries over 15 seconds. Why can'

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internet explorer

Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x

As I read through all the articles spawned by the IE7 announcement (press release), I finally realized something: IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x. It’s like we woke up one day, and IE6 had transformed overnight into the browser that we all wish would go away. The one

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browser speed tests

A need for speed - and silence

Wondering which browser is fastest? These guys ran browser speed tests across an impressive array of operating systems. The hardware used is mildly obsolete by today’s standards – an 800mhz P3 with 256mb of RAM – but there’s no reason to think the benchmark results wouldn’t scale to faster

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