Not Possible to Use IE?s Web Slice Icon In Other Browsers
Web Slices are a cool new feature coming in Internet Explorer 8, where you can subscribe to portions of a web page and see updates to them in the Favorites toolbar. There is even an open specification ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Fixing Loss of Focus on IE
Continuing with SitePen storIEs for today, Dustin Machi posted a short but interesting pIEce on how to detect loss of focus on IE6.
So your cool new app is perfect, but you want it to lock the user ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
CSS Expressions are no more in IE 8 standards mode
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div.title { background-color: expression( (new Date()).getHours()%2 ? "#B8D4FF" : "#F08A00" ) }
The CSS expressions of old will no ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
IE8 and Standards
Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software has updated his post on IE 8 to cover beta 2:
XDomainRequest: Microsoft unfortunately continues with XDomainRequest rather than making changes to XMLHttpRequest ....... read more
Fri,
10 Oct 2008
IE 8 beta 2 Ajax features
Sunava Dutta has detailed the enhancements made to IE 8 beta 2 for Ajax developers including XDR, XDM/postMessage, DOM Storage, offline detection, and more. A lot of great stuff!
XDomainRequest (XD ....... read more
Tue,
07 Oct 2008
Ex DOM Storage gives us hope for IE 6+
Toru Yamaguchi has built a very cool shim, ExDOMStorage, which implements the HTML 5 DOM Storage API for IE 6 and 7.
It does so by strapping in the functionality via an HTC behaviour:
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JAVAS ....... read more
Wed,
24 Sep 2008
Adding Custom Tags To Internet Explorer, The Official Way
There have been some clever tricks to create new custom tags in Internet Explorer, such as the createElement trick. However, I never realized that Internet Explorer itself provides a facility to defin ....... read more
Wed,
03 Sep 2008
toStaticHTML: Sanitize your HTML in IE 8
The IE 8 beta has a new method, toStaticHTML that sanitizes HTML strings by removing dHTML elements and attributes from an HTML fragment.
The example they give is:
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