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I know this is old.. but I just found it, and it’s hilarious. Whoever does these things is a genius

One of the neat new features in the Internet Explorer 8 Beta are Webslices. This is a special tag in your HTML that lets Explorer “subscribe” to that section of your page, and notify a user as it changes. It’s like an RSS feed, but you can easily make non-rss content subscribable in this way.

To participate:

1. Get the Internet Explorer 8 Beta.
2. Visit our site and peripheral sites (knowledgebase, blogs, forums, and the like)
3. Discover the 5 webslices and post a comment on this blog post describing where to find each one.
4. The first person to do this will get a free 1-seat license for CompleteUI!

At the moment there are exactly 5 of these in total, and they’re not hard to spot so this is a gimme.

I had this problem today.. I want to detect IE8 when it’s trying to emulate IE7.. dont ask why.. just trust there was a good reason. Point is – IE8 gives an IE7 user agent:

4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)

One way to do it is to use JavaScript to detect the presense of XDomainRequest, which is a new addition to the browser, and peaks in on the IE7 emulated mode.

Ie:

I found this resource today and it saved me heaps of time:

http://blog.simb.net/2007/08/21/installing-ruby-and-rubygems-on-centos-5/

The ‘meat and potatos’ of it is this:

yum install -y ruby
yum install -y ruby-devel ruby-docs ruby-ri ruby-irb ruby-rdoc

Check out this nicely done Silverlight resource poster. Its more like a marketing summary than anything else, but its pretty.

http://brad_abrams.members.winisp.net/Projects/Mix08SL2Poster/Silverlight2PosterMIX08.jpg