Learning Center Tag: Internet Explorer

2009 Off to a Good Start: Firefox Breaking News!

Written by Vikram on January 2, 2009

Happy New Year to all our Big Wave Blog readers! I want to share some good news, both for Firefox and for open web fans like me! Firefox is now the preferred browser for 20% of users worldwide. This is also good news for “team common sense” in the browser wars I have talked about [...]

Help Your Shopping Cart Overcome Abandonment Issues

Written by Vikram on October 27, 2008

It’s really sad when great search engine marketing campaigns don’t bring about conversions due to problems with the website.  So this week we are examining issues we have encountered with various shopping carts, contact forms, and booking engines. Although a robust shopping cart is crucial for conversion of your website traffic, it is often overlooked [...]

Browser Mania (Part Deux)– Questions and Answers

Written by Vikram on September 4, 2008

My last post, Alice in Browserland, has resulted in a lot of questions so I want to elaborate on the “Google Analytics vs. Internet Explorer 8″ issue. Here are some answers to the questions I received, and also my thoughts on how things might play out. How does “Porno Mode” (aka “InPrivate Mode”) on Internet [...]

Alice in Browserland

Written by Vikram on September 3, 2008

Here is the latest from Browserland (my new word of the day): What’s Google got to do with it, you ask? Hold that thought, and I will get back to answer it in a bit. First, welcome to the world as viewed through IE8. Here are some of its features: Full compliance with CSS 2.1, [...]

Internet Browser Wars: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer VS. Progress

Written by Vikram on August 27, 2008

Question: What does Microsoft do when it cannot develop a good product? Answer: A: It buys out a competing company that has a good product (ex: Visio, Hotmail). B: It uses its power to destroy the competing product (ex: Netscape, Lotus, WordPerfect, Novell, and Real Networks). Let’s start with a personal statement from me: “Internet [...]