JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers

re: JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers

Philip — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:31:59 GMT

While you work with the script debugger - can't you also provide a plugin to IE7 and IE6 for javascript debugging?

What’s new in JScript for IE8

JScript Blog — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:58:37 GMT

During Beta1 and Beta2 pre-releases of IE8, we’ve blogged about the performance optimizations done in

What’s new in JScript for IE8

IEBlog — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:27:57 GMT

During Beta1 and Beta2 pre-releases of IE8, we’ve blogged about the performance optimizations done in

re: JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers

BryanS — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:13:39 GMT

DOM3 adoption after so long would go a long way to send a message that IE is taking the challenges of competition and the needs of developers seriously.

What’s New for JScript for IE8 Beta 2

IEBlog — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:29:19 GMT

One of the key themes for IE8 is developer productivity. IE8 Beta 1 improved developer productivity through

re: JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers

Brad — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:40:59 GMT

Seconding the requests for getters / setters, support for DOM3 events (DOMAttrModified, DOMNodeInserted) and, finally, the standard event model.

These have been hoped for for many years and are the subject of countless articles. I'm really hoping that these catch-up features make it into IE.

re: JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers

Brad Gronek — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:40:34 GMT

Seconding the requests for getters / setters, support for DOM3 events (DOMAttrModified, DOMNodeInserted) and, finally, the standard event model.

These have been hoped for for many years and are the subject of countless articles. I'm really hoping that these catch-up features make it into IE.

re: JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers

Ben Johnson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:09:29 GMT

Am I missing something here? Don't you find it somewhat pathetic that in March of 2008 you guys are making a post about improving javascript performance? All while your competition is focusing on other features that don't have to do with fundamental browser functions, because they got it right the first time.

I just downloaded IE8 and ran various tests on it, and it isn't even close to your competition in terms of speed. This isn't rocket science. There are plenty of browsers out there that do this right. That means you have plenty of examples of how a browser should properly process javascript. That should make your task much easier. You have over 5 working examples of what you are trying to accomplish for God's sake! Come on, you should be able to get it right. Seriously....It blows my mind that a multi billion dollar company can't do this.

How about looking at IE as a whole and fixing the core issues first, instead of dealing with problems that just put a bandaid over the real problem.

Here is a basic test:

table tr:hover {

background-color: black;

}

Then create a table with 100 rows. Look at that same page in IE and then FireFox. It's not hard to notice the difference. Changing the background color in IE is horribly slow. Firefox is instantaneous.

Because of your laziness, you have cost developers thousands and thousands of hours. Probably millions. All of that could have been avoided had you of spent a few extra hours and did it right the first time.

Why not save yourself the time and effort and just buy firefox?

IE8 Beta 2 Coming in August

SuperSite Blog — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:24:58 GMT

The IE blog whittles down the IE 8 Beta 2 date a bit further: In addition to the features for developers

IE8 Beta 2 Coming in August

IEBlog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:45:34 GMT

In addition to the features for developers we showed in IE8 Beta 1 , we’ve been working on great new