IE
No more ?Click to Activate?, no more SWFObject / UFO?
Pete LePage has posted on the IE blog about the change to component activation in IE. Microsoft licensed the silliness from Eolas, which now means that you dont have to click to activate a component ....... read more
Fri,
09 Nov 2007
URI Comparison Functions
It is nice to see a post on IEBlog that isnt about ES4 ;) Dave Risney provides just that as he details the perils of comparing URIs, a common cause for security exploits and errors in general. Inves ....... read more
Mon,
05 Nov 2007
IE Feedback: Closed for Business
Say no more?
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Mon,
24 Sep 2007
IE6 Leak on Form Tag
Jon Sykes happened across another IE 6 leak to do with form tag orphans. The bug means that (as of yet) there seems to be no way of removing a FORM tag from the DOM without it resulting in an orphaned ....... read more
Thu,
20 Sep 2007
IE?s Memory Leak Fix Greatly Exaggerated
We were all hoping that IEs memory leaks were fixed, but Joel Webber of the GWT team dug deeper . At first he was excited of course:
When I saw this article, I nearly spilled tea all over the keyboa ....... read more
Tue,
18 Sep 2007
Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download
The issues with garbage collection in IE 6 are well known. IE 7 has fixed the bulk of them, but what about IE 6 users? It turns out that Microsoft has downloads for the various Windows operating syste ....... read more
Fri,
17 Aug 2007
Good Practices for ActiveX Updates
Over on the IEBlog they are chatting about Good Practices for ActiveX Updates. They came up with: Add detection logic to your ActiveX control to check for updates Build an update executable and launc ....... read more
Wed,
15 Aug 2007
Chris Wilson keynote at TAE
Chris Wilson (Platform Architect of Internet Explorer) led off Day 2 of The Ajax ExperIEnce with his keynote: Moving The Web Forward . The talk centered on challenges faced by browser vendors and web ....... read more
Thu,
26 Jul 2007
IE Memory Leaks Be-gone
We can all rejoice as their are officially no more memory leaks in IE. Ok, there are probably still plenty, but it is good news to hear that with the MS07-033 security update we get:
General distribu ....... read more
Tue,
26 Jun 2007
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
The IE team has released a new Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. This is the final release of the toolbar, but the comments in that thread talk about issues, not only with the toolbar itself, but a ....... read more
Thu,
17 May 2007
New Explorer Canvas Release
Erik Arvidsson has released a new version of ExCanvas, the wrapper around VML that implements the canvas tag on IE. This has enabled applications such as Yahoo! Pipes. With Silverlight, maybe a versi ....... read more
Tue,
08 May 2007
IE 8: Opt-in for standards compliance
We have talked about the big debate on backwards compatibility vs. fixing things. Chris Wilson chatted to a large crowd at MIX about the future of IE, in which he talked a little about IE 8:
However, ....... read more
Mon,
07 May 2007