“Groovy Motherfucker”

Clever Google hack to inject the Chrome/WebKit rendering engine into IE on a per-site basis. If users can be convinced to install this, it could make life easier for webdevs — but the implementation would have to be pretty seamless before I’d use this on a consumer website.

Or how we got from “NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)” to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13”

Firebug-a-like for IE. If this works as advertised, it could be indispensable for cross-browser Javascriptery.

Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. The homepage is a staggeringly fucking awful flash animation, promising “Everything you need, nothing you don’t, and a few things you have yet to imagine”, before displaying a list of Firefox’s features.

Really interesting sounding approach to warning users of untrustworthy sites — armies of webcrawlers looking for the places which load you up with spyware and spam.