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March 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:19 PM

Understanding the Windows lifecycle policy (for all you IT Pros out there)

With so many customers relying on IE, it helps to get a solid grasp of the Windows Lifecycle Policy , which at first blush can appear to be a bit cryptic. Fortunately I think I can shed some light on Microsoft’s policy with these simple rules: We support
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:22 PM

Internet Explorer Compatibility Evaluator

My name is Tariq Sharif and I am a program manager in the IE security and networking team. I joined IE team shortly after Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released. Windows XP Service Pack 2 introduced many new security features for Internet Explorer, which
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Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:53 AM

A HTTP Detective Story by Eric Lawrence

As a little kid, my dad read with me a lot; we usually read detective stories. While of questionable literary merit, those books developed in me a burning desire to figure stuff out, to pull back the curtain, to understand the mysterious. I still maintain
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:43 PM

IE and Standards

First of all, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Chris Wilson; I’m the lead program manager for the web platform in IE. (I am NOT Chris Wilson the drummer for Good Charlotte. :^) ) I joined the IE team shortly before we shipped IE 2.0 in 1995, and
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Monday, March 07, 2005 5:45 PM

Mark of the Web

With the Local Machine Zone Lockdown introduced in Windows XP SP2 an HTML file on your hard drive will no longer be able to run script and active content without user permissions being granted through the information bar and an additional prompt. This
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Friday, March 04, 2005 8:28 AM

Internet Explorer and Accessibility

Since this is my first post on the IE Blog, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Kelly Ford and I’m part of the test team responsible for testing the user experience in IE. I also head up our accessibility testing efforts. Today I wanted to talk about
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:29 PM

Netscape 8 Beta, the IE Platform, and the IE Browser

I haven’t tried the Netscape beta yet, but I have read that it allows users to switch between the Gecko rendering engine (the one used in Firefox) and Internet Explorer’s rendering engine. I think this a good opportunity to write about the Windows Web
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:09 PM

Scripting

We received some good questions about how the JScript engine works in IE. What version of JScript is supported? The version of JScript included with IE6 is EcmaScript edition 3 compliant. I’ve seen some confusion recently with some even claiming that
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