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Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:12 AM

Red Sox Win the World Series!

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
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:28 AM

Tweakomatic Utility for IE Settings

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
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:24 AM

Scripting Debugging in Internet Explorer

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
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Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:45 PM

“IE Shines on Broken Code” Story on Slashdot

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
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Friday, October 15, 2004 3:09 PM

Compatibility, or “Just Don’t Break My Site!”

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
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:50 PM

A fresh IE security update

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 &
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Friday, October 08, 2004 5:40 PM

Setting Google as Your Autosearch Provider (or One Thing I Don't Love About IE)

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
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:50 AM

Opting in to the Information Bar

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
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