Attempting to use HTTP resources on an secure web page is a guaranteed way to annoy IE users, because it generates a confusing security warning for anyone running with the default IE settings. Our previous post on fixing this message in IE 8 is responsible for more than 50% of the traffic and comments on [...]
A significant change in IE 8 was the increase in the number of active connections per hostname from two to six. This allowed pages with many embedded resources (e.g. images, CSS or JavaScript) to be loaded much more quickly because more requests could be executed in parallel; reducing queuing and the amount of Blocked time [...]
We have previously written about the pointless and confusing ‘Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely‘ message in IE 8. It is displayed by default when a secure web page attempts to use non-secure content such as images, javascript or CSS. That post has been so popular that it [...]