Internet Explorer 6 implements advanced cookie filtering based on the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification. The P3P specification, developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), enables you to express your privacy preferences while helping Web sites in clearly describing, in a computer-readable format, how they will use your data. For information about P3P, please see the following Web site
Internet Explorer has the highest market share as far as browsers are concerned, and it would be foolish to not make your website compatible with it, but what if you are a Linux user? Should you just switch to Windows for Internet Explorer or for that matter install a virtual machine for a single piece of software?
Microsoft Internet Explorer users aren't exactly rushing to embrace IE 8, the new release of the Web browser that debuted Thursday.As of 1 p.m. EDT Friday, usage of IE 8 accounted for only 1.56 percent of global Internet traffic, according to StatCounter Global Stats. That's up only slightly from 1.39 percent on Thursday.
The recent publication of proof-of-concept exploit code affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7 over the weekend prompted Microsoft to issue a Security Advisory.