IE8 will now render as IE8 by default

Good news! The IE team have decided to revert their decision on compatibility [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx] which would have meant IE8 would render sites with the IE7 engine if a ua-x-compatible meta tag isn't defined. Sites will now render with…

Opera and NTLM Authentication

In the new Rentokil Office our proxy has changed to one that uses NTLM authentication. As a result we can’t use Opera (8.54) because it doesn’t yet support NTLM authentication (V9 Preview 2 has experimental NTLM support but it’s a bit sketchy). Fortunately for us a…

Opera Mini Launched

Opera Mini [http://mini.opera.com] has been launched worldwide earlier on today. I've been using Opera mobile [http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/] for a while on my Nokia 6600 and it's so much better than the Nokia's built in browser. To test…