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IE8 showing how serious it is about security
The IE8 team has created a blitz on its blog with a slew of posts on security. There is a ton of great stuff here, and is well worth going into detail on each post: IE8 and Trustworthy Browsing At fir ....... read more
Thu,
03 Jul 2008
IE 8 beta 2 coming in August
Bill Gates gave his last talk, appropriately, to developers at TechEd. No matter what you think of the guy, he is an icon that helped create the software industry. Without him and Steve Jobs, who do w ....... read more
Wed,
04 Jun 2008
IE 8 and Cross Document Messaging
IEBlog has posted about the IE 8 support of postMessage, which is great news. They link to a MSDN article that discusses the support, and a use case. Jeff Walden noted that the interface implemented ....... read more
Tue,
20 May 2008
IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3? still IE 6
Whenever I see a post on the IE Blog that has a title like IE and XP SP 3 I hope to see oh, and IE 6 users will be upgraded . How much pain would be relIEved when IE 6 usage is minimal? Unfortunately ....... read more
Tue,
06 May 2008
Are you sure your unload handler is firing in IE?
Johan Sörlin found that sometimes his unload event never fired in IE:
We recently found a serious bug in IE where the unload event wouldn?t fire on a specific page we had on a site. After some bug tr ....... read more
Thu,
17 Apr 2008
100 Line Ajax Wrapper
Kris Zyp gives us a glimpse at a potential future with his 100 line Ajax wrapper that trIEs to do the right thing cross browser for the various cross-domain models:
With IE8?s new XDomainRequest feat ....... read more
Fri,
18 Apr 2008
Getting feedback to the IE 8 team
The following email was sent out to Microsoft MVPs (read: frIEndly people :), but we should give them our honest feedback too:
Microsoft has recently released a public beta of IE8. Standards and secu ....... read more
Wed,
09 Apr 2008
IE 8 Security Updates
Microsoft has put out a set of security updates, and one of them is discussed in a post IE8 Security Part I: DEP/NX Memory Protection.
Over the next several weeks, we?ll blog in greater detail about ....... read more
Thu,
10 Apr 2008
IE 8 and Performance
Steve Souders has posted on IE 8 and performance improvements. One new nugget of information that I havent seen anywhere else is the fact that scripts are now loaded in parallel (and execution is sti ....... read more
Tue,
11 Mar 2008
Internal IE-HTML DOM still isn?t XHTML compliant
Jon Davis was glad to see that XHTML compliance was on the list in IE 8, but was surprised to see the above. It turns out that he found:
XHTML compliance exists in parsing and rendering only. Micros ....... read more
Mon,
10 Mar 2008
IE 8: Better Ajax, CSS, DOM, and new features
MIX has started, and we have the news we have been waiting for, for some time. What is IE 8 going to do? Microsoft has put out an IE 8 Readiness Report that discusses everything. There is a TON of am ....... read more
Wed,
05 Mar 2008
IE 8 on Acid
The IE team posted that they were passing Acid2 a few months ago, yet people are seeing a broken face when they tested with IE 8 beta. Phil Nachreiner of IE explained the situation: Although we said ....... read more
Thu,
06 Mar 2008
Me.dium shows off new IE 8 features
Me.dium, the social browsing folks, have put together some examples using the new ActivitIEs and Web Slices features. You can install their Activity if you have IE 8, or you can take a look below:
As ....... read more
Wed,
05 Mar 2008
Microsoft changes IE 8 defaults to be ?standards mode?
You have to hand it to the IE team, they have listened to the huge amount of community feedback on the IE 8 user agent feature, and they have reversed their decision so by default IE 8 will run in sta ....... read more
Mon,
03 Mar 2008
WaSP IE8 Round Table Discussion
The Microsoft proposal for browser version targeting in Internet Explorer 8 to default to IE7 behavior for all current DOCTYPEs has divided the web developer community. What implications would this h ....... read more
Tue,
26 Feb 2008
IE8 Beta 1 is focused on the developer community
IE8 Beta 1 is focused on the developer community . That is from an email on the private beta of IE 8 that some folk have been getting. This is meant to ramp up for a public beta, and something will b ....... read more
Sun,
24 Feb 2008
Shooting browsers: Threat or Menace?
Two articles were shot onto A List Apart this morning. We have Jeffrey Zeldman on the threat or menace of version targeting. Then we have Jeremy Keith on browser shooting. Both are opinions on the ver ....... read more
Tue,
19 Feb 2008
HTTP Streaming and Internet Explorer
Michael Carter wrote about the trials and tribulations of getting HTTP streaming with IE. He knew that the htmlfile ActiveX object was the key, but kept getting errors. Then he stumbled on the solutio ....... read more
Tue,
20 Nov 2007
DebugBar 5: New CSS debugging for IE
Jean-Fabrice Rabaute, author of Companion.JS, has put out a new DebugBar as he aims to get IE developer tools on par to Firebug. In this new version, on a selected element in the DOM Tree, the DebugBa ....... read more
Tue,
13 Nov 2007
Get rid of the IE iframe ?click?
I am sure you have run into this before. You are on a site, interacting with a single page app, and then you hit the back button and IE clicks at you. The navigation "click" happens with iframes, and ....... read more
Mon,
12 Nov 2007