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April 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:16 PM

Internet Explorer 7 User Agent String

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 is fast approaching. A tiny but significant code change was checked in this week: Internet Explorer's new User-Agent string. The User-Agent (or UA) string is sent along in the headers of every HTTP request so the server knows
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:11 PM

IE7 Transparent PNG Implementation

My name is Sam Fortiner and I’m a developer on the Internet Explorer team here at Microsoft. I joined the company about a year ago when I was given the opportunity to work on IE. Since then I’ve worked on several aspects of IE and recently settled down
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Friday, April 22, 2005 6:00 PM

IE7 beta 1 – A few details…

We’ve heard some great feedback on what web developers would like to see in IE7, both from the responses to my last post and from the resources I referred to. The rest of the team was cranking away while I was away on parental leave, and I wanted to share
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:44 PM

TLS and SSL in the real world

Quite a bit has been written about the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS), so I won't cover the protocols in detail here. The following are good references if you want to get a quick refresher. Microsoft
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:31 AM

Hiring IE Evangelist

Jeremy Mazner just posted news on his blog that there is a position opening for a technical evangelist focusing on IE. That’s great news! Working either on or with the IE team is definitely a great experience. Thanks -Dave
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 6:41 PM

April IE Security Update is Available

Hello. My name is Al Billings and I'm a test engineer on the Internet Explorer test team posting to the IE Blog for the first time. I want to announce that the April 2005 security updates are available and that a critical update for Internet Explorer
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Monday, April 11, 2005 11:15 AM

Internet Explorer and Connection Limits

From time to time, I've heard the question: "Why can IE only download two files from the same site simultaneously?" Some more savvy users observe that this limitation probably makes sense in dialup cases where bandwidth is constrained or when lots of
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:50 PM

Updated Documentation on Controlling Security Restrictions

Our documentation team has just completed updating our documentation covering how administrators and developers can control certain features. This includes the following articles: About Zone Elevation Introduction to Feature Controls About URL Security
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