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Tag: internet explorer

  • Local AJAX calls with IE11

    Local AJAX calls with IE11

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    Ben Foster
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    Here is a little snippet to get local AJAX (with jQuery) working when running content locally in IE 11. Local content is not allowed to use the XMLHttpRequest but it can use the proprietary ActiveXObject, so this tells jQuery to always use the ActiveXObject if it’s available. I needed to use this to run local…

  • Comparing custom font display with @font-face

    Comparing custom font display with @font-face

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    Ben Foster
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    This is a little experiment I conducted comparing the way different browsers render custom fonts through @font-face. What I found was that the two browsers that displayed them best were IE8 and Firefox 4 Beta. The worst browsers were Opera and Safari. Opera seemed to make the characters extra skinny, and Safari made the characters…