Thursday, February 28, 2013

Java vulnerabilities

Since the big news about Java vulnerabilities, it seems we get almost daily updates to Java client. It seems Oracle trying hard to save their crap. Java is good but when websites using it (like banks for their online access) is bad. And since most companies disabled Java in their browsers or operating systems it is more and more difficult to use especially for novice users who just want to click & bank. I hope companies realizes the issue and start moving forward from Java to something better back end and pure HTML/CSS/JS on user end.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026990/oracle-rushes-out-another-java-update-fixing-50-vulnerabilities.html

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7


Just installed it. Funny because it asked for a restart. A web brwoser. It seems Microsoft still integrating their browser a bit too deep into the operating system.
I'm a Chrome user but due to web dev, I have to keep IE and other browsers for testing purposes. 
This update also caused some issue in Desktop Gadgets. We using "DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient()" to render UI in the gadget and it seems this isn't working properly now. Thanks MS, time to debug :P

The browser looks like IE9, so far. I hope they did not make any other problems because IE browsers getting better and better since IE7 or IE8...  I remember that IE6/7 caused some sleepless nights to tweak the HTML/CSS for web pages.

Update: I've found the answer for the problem. If you ran into the same problem then here is the info about the change: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh801215(v=vs.85).aspx