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March 1st 2010 – double tech D-day

Well, Groundhog Day has come, and with it the rodent prognosticators have come to a consensus with regards to how much more cold we’ll have to endure.  Don’t let that get in the way of getting a jump on spring cleaning though. At the beginning of March, two things happen that will probably affect a large number of people. First, if you’re using Google Apps, and for some reason still use Internet Explorer 6 (which is still estimated at a shockingly high 10% of all internet users), you’ll start running…

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Internet Explorer 9 getting HTML 5 support and GPU acceleration

Internet Explorer may be the most popular browser in the world, but that’s only due to its inclusion with Windows itself.  Mozilla’s Firefox has been steadily clawing at IE’s market share for a couple of years now, and Google’s been pushing Chrome, though with less success, so far. Microsoft tried to change that with IE 8, which actually has a very nice interface, but still presents rendering issues in a number of sites, rgbfilter.com included.  This is supposedly going to change with IE 9, with more standards compliance in general,…

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