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This is the personal blog of Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft (and ex-Group Program Manager).
I am, however, making a fresh start...
...by moving my blog. Please move your references to this blog to my new one, at cwilso.com.
Date: 07/24/2008
Where have I been?
I know a few people have wondered why I appear to have stopped blogging altogether. Well, the short...
Date: 07/14/2008
I feel happy, too...
...that someone got it. Thanks, Hal - standards compliance and not breaking existing websites are,...
Date: 01/22/2008
Not that you need me to tell you this...
...but IE8 now correctly renders the Acid2 smiley face in IE8 standards mode.
Date: 12/19/2007
Best. Spam. Evar.
"Dear Chris: This is a shameless marketing e-mail, so if you don’t want to be marketed to, FOR...
Date: 10/22/2007
Oh! Oh! Wait!
I'm skeptical cat!
Date: 08/02/2007
I am... sad cookie cat.
You are: Sad Cookie Cat 54% Affectionate, 40% Excitable, 60% Hungry You are the classic...
Date: 07/20/2007
Ahh....
This Thursday, I'm going to be going on vacation. For the first time in a very long time, I'm...
Date: 06/12/2007
Why I love my MacBook, but Microsoft too.
I love my MacBook. I especially love the new photo workflow I'm almost finished setting up, which...
Date: 05/15/2007
Back from MIX...
And my talk is available on the web - go to https://sessions.visitmix.com/, type "Chris Wilson" in...
Date: 05/04/2007
For all of you that aren't going to MIX07...
...there will be a lot of live information streamed from the event, and videos released afterward....
Date: 04/27/2007
The joy of being me
So, we're having a fun thread on the HTML WG. I'm explaining what Microsoft must do, given the...
Date: 04/14/2007
Upcoming speaking engagements...
Trying to stay ahead of the game, but as usual I'm not very good at publicizing what I'm doing. Next...
Date: 04/11/2007
Braces again.
I seem to have two sets of people reading my blog - the people who know me from web work, and those...
Date: 04/03/2007
SXSW
I can't believe I forgot to post this. If you're at SXSW, so am I. I was on Eric Meyer's panel "A...
Date: 03/10/2007
Phone interview with Jon Udell
Jon Udell called me up a week or two ago and asked me a bunch of questions about web history, IE and...
Date: 02/15/2007
Sigh.
Daniel. Really. It's 2007. When I said "spring of last year," I did in fact mean the 2006 Mandelieu...
Date: 01/11/2007
Braces.
Wow, a bunch of recent comments on my first post after getting my braces. So, I've had my braces for...
Date: 01/03/2007
Back from the Holidays.
I’ve been pretty absent for a while from my blog. Sorry about that; I have a bunch of things...
Date: 01/03/2007
IE re-downloading background images
Quick post - at the Ajax Experience conference, someone mentioned to me that IE was downloading...
Date: 11/07/2006
I'm leaving my position as IE platform Group Program Manager…
…HA! Gotcha! I’ve been juggling multiple roles on the IE team for a while. With the release of IE7,...
Date: 10/23/2006
Not even time to catch my breath...
...but I wanted to mention that I'm speaking next week at the Ajax Experience conference - both my...
Date: 10/20/2006
Hola desde España
Okay, that exhausts my Spanish. And I had to look up two of those words in the dictionary. But hey,...
Date: 10/02/2006
Trying not to let a month go by...
...between posts. I've been quite busy - it's been annual performance review time at Microsoft...
Date: 09/22/2006
Reflections on my first 24 hours with braces.
Ow. Ow ow. OWOWOWOWOWOW. Sigh. 18 months minus one day to go. Did I say ow?
Date: 08/23/2006
Chris goes back to junior high school...
No, this ISN'T a post about IE, web standards, or me being childish about the trolls. I'm getting...
Date: 08/18/2006
Update from Paul
Paul Thurrott just posted a note about the last week from his perspective, and gives his opinion.
Date: 08/17/2006
IE and CSS "Compliance"
I was surprised that when I got back from vacationing in Hawaii to read a Slashdot post by Jeff...
Date: 08/10/2006
Where's Chris?
In short, I've been on some long-overdue vacations - first to Texas, then to Hawaii. But I'm back...
Date: 08/07/2006
Best new nickname for myself
In a post about @media, Loz Gray referred to my haircut as a "Rowlf from the Muppets" look. Let's...
Date: 06/20/2006
I suck...
...in many ways, but the most recent is in forgetting to mention that I'm speaking at the @media...
Date: 06/13/2006
Kill-a-tarianism
Molly asked her blog readers if they are meat-eaters or vegetarian. I've explained my personal...
Date: 06/05/2006
I love^D^D^D^Dhate spam filters
I just traded email with a friend of mine. My initial response to him included a swear word (I know,...
Date: 05/17/2006
See, I told you.
I'm not really evil. How evil are you?
Date: 05/17/2006
Ahhhh...
This past weekend, I got to go diving at Sunrise Beach in Gig Harbor. That, in and of itself, would...
Date: 05/09/2006
Every Dog Has Its Day
Yes, we do occasionally get things right in IE.
Date: 05/02/2006
Albatross! Albatross!
In honor of John C. Dvorak's wildly misled article comparing Internet Explorer to a dead albatross,...
Date: 04/28/2006
Next thing you know, I'll start doing open source...
According to personalDNA, I am a Benevolent Leader. Next thing you know, I'll suggest we make IE an...
Date: 04/13/2006
Not tech support
A gentle reminder - I'm not IE tech support. Sorry. I get over a hundred emails a day on average -...
Date: 04/10/2006
Still decompressing from MIX...
...but at least I put a few pictures on my Flickr feed. https://www.flickr.com/photos/23387360@N00/.
Date: 03/29/2006
Quickie from MIX
I've seen a bunch of people asking about MIX content being available online. The keynotes (2.5 hours...
Date: 03/20/2006