IE8 will now render as IE8 by default

Good news! The IE team have decided to revert their decision on compatibility 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 the browser's current rendering engine by default, so sites will be rendered as…

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 has been launched worldwide earlier on today. I've been using Opera mobile for a while on my Nokia 6600 and it's so much better than the Nokia's built in browser. To test out Opera Mini I went over to mini.opera.com on my phone and downloaded and…