October, 2004

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 I thought I’d take a couple minutes to talk about Script Debugging and Internet Explorer. Script debugging is turned off by default you can enable it by going to: Tools->Internet Options…->Advanced->Disable Script Debugging Prior to XPSP2 the above will turn script debugging on for all applications that host the WebBrowser control (Outlook for example). On XPSP2...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 Slashdot picked up a story from Bugtraq entitled Web browsers - a mini-farce in which Michael Zalewski talks about feeding a variety of browsers a healthy dose of bad content over 2 hours and seeing what happened. The story also includes pointers to the tools he used for hammering the browsers. Here is a bit of his report: 6) Pointless rants It appears that the overall...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 We’ve had more than a few comments suggesting that IE works too hard at backwards compatibility, and we cater to those people who “don’t code their pages correctly”, or people who otherwise “didn’t do things the right way”. These comments frequently go on to suggest that we (the IE team) should use our market position to “force people to fix their broken stuff”. I’d like...

Like any piece of software I have worked on, I have intense affection for the resultant software we ship (warts and all). However, there are usually a number of things you wish you had had more time to make better and every time you run across it in the product it drives you crazy. One thing that bothers me with IE in XPSP2 is the amount of hoops you need to click through to set Google or some other search engine as your autosearch provider. A quick way to set Google is to use the reg file up on...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 I got an email thread the other day that started out with the question of how to add a trusted site into "LocalSystem"'s IE setting via command line or script (which is good question, but more on that later). As part of this thread it also talked about a power toy called Tweakomatic. Named to follow along in the great TweakUI power toy tradition, Tweakomatic is a tool...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 Earlier this week we released the latest security update for IE, MS04-038 . We’ve been working on this since XPSP2 shipped, and it’s nice to see it made available to customers on Windows Update . This update addresses, among other issues, the drag & drop vulnerability that’s been in the news & security circles lately. This is also the first IE update to use the our latest installation technology...

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox, the 2004 World Series Champions! It is amazing to think that they not only won the World Series for the first time since 1918, but they did it in extraordinary fashion, winning 8 straight games against two of the best teams in baseball. Before I started working with a VIC-20 or a Commodore 64, I was a baseball fanatic. I grew up in New England (Vermont to be exact) living and dying with the fate of the Red Sox. I was fortunate enough to see them play a number...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 So this is my first post on this blog, my name is Phil Nachreiner, I’m a developer on the IE team. I’ll post more about myself in another time, but I’d like to talk briefly about opting into the security features we added in XPSP2. For example, we’ve made it extremely easy to opt existing applications that use the WebBrowser Control into the XPSP2 Information Bar without...