October, 2005

Hello! I am Venkat Kudallur, development lead for Networking in Internet Explorer. We have made several improvements in Internet Explorer in Networking, and in this post, I would like to introduce you to some of the improvements in content caching and decompression in IE, two features that play a key role in speeding up the delivery of pages from a remote web server. If you’re a webmaster, developer using the IE Networking API, or just curious about IE Networking, I think you’ll find these details...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date and one or more links are invalid. —IEBlog Editor, 21 August 2012 I am Puneet Arora and I’m a Program Manager on the IE team at Microsoft’s India Development Center (IDC). The team started just 6 months ago and has just the right mix of fresh engineering graduates full of zeal, people with prior experience and some old time Microsoft veterans. The focus for the IDC team is making IE great for IT professionals. For IE7 for both...

In the past, we’ve called upon website operators to ensure they are using HTTPS securely . This time, I’d like to tell you about the changes IE7 has made to improve the security and user experience for HTTPS connections. Safer Protocol Defaults HTTPS uses encryption to secure your Internet traffic to protect it from snooping or tampering by others on the network. HTTPS uses either the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols to protect data. For Internet...

We’re starting to see the first round of sites and pages breaking due to the CSS fixes we have made. We would like to ask your help in cleaning up existing CSS hacks in your pages for IE7. It is has been our policy since IE6 that under quirks doctype we will not make any behavioral changes so that existing pages will continue to render unmodified, but under the strict doctype we want to change behavior to be as compliant as possible with the web standards. For IE7, we introduced new CSS functionality...

The IE October 2005 security updates are now available! This group of security updates is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates available via the new Microsoft Update . I would encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already. Information about the IE Security update can be found at: MS05-052 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (KB# 896688) This security update package contains fixes for the following...

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