This blog focus on Windows client operating systems; Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The blog covers hints and guides for using new technologies, solutions to problems which are not common and news related to Windows client operating systems.
Andreas Stenhall, MVP Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
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Webcast on migrating from IE6 to IE8
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 1 commentJoin Chris Jackson in the webcast Migrating from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 (Level 300) to learn what you need to know when you migrate from IE6 to IE8. Actually I met Chris at the MVP Summit that took place last week and he is indeed a great and inspiring speaker and an interesting person to talk to. What Chris doesn’t know about application (and web site) compatibility is not worth knowing :)
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Fool a web site into thinking you are another browser or OS
Posted on June 8th, 2009 No commentsSome time ago I wanted to see a soccer game via Canal Digitals web service but as I am running Windows 7 on my Media Center connected to my TV the web service discovered this and did not let me play this using Windows Media Player and instead offered me to view it in Flash format. Viewing the game in Flash format really wasn’t the best in quality and as I and my co-watchers discovered the game was more or less unwatchable.
In halftime I had the time to do the necessary corrections to fool the web service into presenting itself as another operating system and Internet Explorer version. This made the Windows Media stream instantly and not to mention with much better quality. This is done easilty by changing the so called user agent string which is a string which presents certain information such as OS, web browser and version and some more info.
If you want to change the user agent string and fool a web site or service into thinking it is something it is not you can do this using one of the registry fixes found at http://www.enhanceie.com/ua.aspx.
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“Fix” the compatibility problems with IE8 beta
Posted on May 26th, 2008 2 commentsSome time during the third quarter this year the next beta of Internet Explorer 8 will be released. Microsoft is already asking people, webmasters specifically, to update their web sites to be Internet Explorer 8 compatible. IE8 follow web standards in a new way and this causes quite a few web sites to look not so good in Internet Explorer 8 native mode.
Of course the best option is to make your web site follow the standards but in any cases where this is not possible, due to lack of time, money or knowledge there is a snippet of code that you can add to your web sites to make Internet Explorer 8 render them as if they were interpreted in Internet Explorer 7.
The below snippet of code must be placed directly after the <head> tag.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">
Adding this tag is equal to running Internet Explorer 8 in the “Emulate IE7″ mode.
More information: Your Web site may not display correctly in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
