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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:42 PM

A quick blog from the floor of the Hack in the box conference

Tony and Rob have just wrapped up their keynote here in Kuala Lumpur, and I wanted to make sure that the resources they talked about are listed here both for the benefit of the conference attendees who wanted to get to them and to everyone else who couldn’t
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:24 PM

IE development in China

Tony Chor , Rob Franco , and myself are in Beijing today as we make our way to Kuala Lumpur for the Hack-In-The-Box conference . We have a great team over here in what we call the ATC (Advanced Technology Center). In the past 6 months they’ve gone from
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:27 PM

More details on Protected Mode IE in Windows Vista

Hello, I’m Marc Silbey, a Program Manager focused on IE security. I’m back from my honeymoon and I want to follow-up to Rob’s last post on IE7 Security by providing you with more detail on Protected Mode’s compatibility features and by telling you about
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Monday, September 19, 2005 9:30 AM

IE7 Security in Brief

While Rob Franco and Chris Wilson were presenting and getting feedback at PDC, I spent most of my time in smaller discussions (for example, with Paul and Joe ) about the security work we’ve done in IE. The discussions reminded me that, before most of
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Friday, September 16, 2005 5:26 PM

Developer Toolbar for IE announced at PDC

The developer community has asked for a long time: Where is the free developer toolbar for IE? We recognized the popularity of free IE tools like Fiddler and we listened to your feedback. I am glad to announce the next addition to our developer tool support:
Posted by ieblog | 133 Comments
Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:57 PM

The <?xml> prolog, strict mode, and XHTML in IE

I realized as I read through the comments to my last blog post that I forgot to mention one important item that was in my presentation. We have fixed the DOCTYPE switch so it will skip an XML prolog, so that valid XHTML can be handled in strict compliance
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:04 AM

IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes

As Aaron mentioned, the IE team collaborated with A9/Amazon on OpenSearch 1.1. This blog post is a story about how the collaboration took place. IE7 Beta1 shipped with a set of 5 search providers and there wasn’t a way (short of hacking the registry)
Posted by ieblog | 29 Comments
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:39 AM

Adding Search providers to IE 7 using OpenSearch 1.1

It’s our goal to make it easy for IE7 users to personalize their list of search providers. The user should be able to target their search directly to site of their choice: MSDN, Intranet portal, Team Sharepoint, PubMed, NYTimes, Costco, USPS, Amazon,
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:02 PM

Hello from LA!

I’m here at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2005 in Los Angeles, and I just finished giving my presentation entitled "What’s New in IE7?" to a pretty full house (for a late afternoon session). I’m still pretty pumped up from my talk, but
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:36 PM

PDC talk on IE Security features (FUNL03) rescheduled to tomorrow 12:30 in 402AB

If you are here at the PDC you probably know that the Keynote presentation went much longer than expected today. Because of that, all of the lunch talks were cancelled, including my talk, “FUNL03 Case Study: building a more secure browser in IE7”. There
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Friday, September 09, 2005 3:22 PM

Phishing Filter in IE7

Hi, my name is Tariq Sharif and I am a Program Manager on the IE Security team. One of the threats users face on the web is phishing. Today, I want to tell you about the Phishing Filter in IE7, a new security feature designed to dynamically warn users
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 4:30 PM

Powering up with Internet Explorer Extensibility

I’ve been keenly interested in extending Internet Explorer since long before I joined the team last fall. MSDN provides some great documentation on how to extend Internet Explorer, but as a longtime IE enhancer, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite
Posted by ieblog | 55 Comments
Friday, September 02, 2005 11:26 AM

Improving the CSS 2.1 strict parser for IE 7

We've already started talking about a few of the CSS changes that are going to be available in IE 7 when we release, but there are a few hanging points that we haven't talked about yet or haven't covered completely. There are 3 specific items I'd like
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:07 PM

User Agent String Documentation

One of the purposes of releasing the IE7 beta is to collect feedback on compatibility with both websites and extensions and we continue to look at all the reports we receive of sites and applications not working. There are reasons for this such as the
Posted by ieblog | 33 Comments
Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:37 AM

Continued fruits of the WaSP partnership: The “HasLayout” myth debunked

Based on some discussion in the Microsoft-WaSP task force , I wanted to explain a little more of the internal workings of IE to help web developers with their daily IE work. In this installment, you will find an article up on MSDN (as part of the ongoing
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