101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot

101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

Enough said.

Mozilla and IE in 1 application

Vasanth Dharmaraj has implemented an application that runs Mozilla and IE, for the convenience of having only to run 1 application to check how your websites render in these 2 web browsers. Read the initial entry (with screenshot) and the entry on how to get it.

I haven’t tried it, simply because it requires the .NET Runtime to be installed - I’ve run out of harddisk space on my laptop. It really sucks when your 80GB harddisk goes offline - my desktop computer just died for no reason a while back and my anime store, not to mention my CD-writer, are now inaccessible to me.

Butters’ real name

Yup naïve Butters’ real name is Leopold Starch!

First time heard on South Park, I think, on the most recent episode, “Casa Bonita“. Watch it!

Required reading: Floats and Positioning

Position Is Everything has some very coherent, very required reading on positioning and floating with CSS: Flowing and Positioning: Two Page Models and Float: The Theory.

By the way, Position Is Everything is a great place for CSS demos and articles. Bookmarked!

Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog

Popup blocking coming soon to IE

Yup you heard that right. Popup ad blocking will appear in IE 6.05 as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). You’d have to wait until the first half of 2004 to get it. In the meantime, you can use these alternatives if you aren’t already:

Source: MSFN via Gemal’s Psyched Blog