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February 2006 - Posts

Monday, February 27, 2006 10:40 AM

Application Compatibility Logging In IE7

As Rob pointed out in his last blog post on security and compatibility in IE7 , one of the biggest challenges in software development is making the software secure and compatible at the same time. In IE7, we have many new security features that help protect
Posted by ieblog | 21 Comments
Friday, February 24, 2006 4:15 PM

IE Chat Transcript online

I just wanted to thank everyone who attended the IE Expert Zone chat earlier this month and point out that the official transcript is now available online . The chat was a lot of fun and included eating donuts as we typed answers furiously to keep pace
Posted by ieblog | 36 Comments
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:53 AM

IE at MIX06

One more MIX plug, since it’s coming up fast. The IE talks have been posted to the MIX06 session list now, including “The Future of IE” discussion session where we will present an overview of our direction for IE beyond IE7, and hold an open discussion
Posted by ieblog | 39 Comments
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:22 PM

Internet Explorer Administration Kit and Group Policy in IE7

I am a program manager on the Internet Explorer team and in this post I would like to share what we are doing in the manageability, customization and deployment space. The two key features are IEAK 7 - The Internet Explorer Administration Kit , and GP
Posted by ieblog | 28 Comments
Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:12 PM

IE 7 Setup: Secure From the Start

Hi, my name is John Hrvatin and I'm the program manager for Internet Explorer setup. I'd like to share some of the ways setup in IE 7 helps keep you more secure and IE running smoothly. Prior to installing IE 7, setup runs the Windows Malicious Software
Posted by ieblog | 92 Comments
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:44 AM

Bidirectional behavior in IE 7 is better than IE 6

Hello. My name is Wujun Wang and I am a tester on the IE team in Beijing. My area of test focus is BiDi. Wait, what is BiDi? When I searched for “bidi” at http://www.Dictionary.com , it defined bidi as "A thin, often flavored Indian cigarette made of
Posted by ieblog | 34 Comments
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:58 PM

Security and Compatibility with IE7

One of the biggest challenges in making software more secure is maintaining compatibility with the existing functionality that customers depend on. We’re here at the RSA security conference in Silicon Valley to work with other software and security professionals
Posted by ieblog | 49 Comments
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:08 PM

IE February 2006 Security Update is now available

The IE February 2006 security update is now available! This security update is now available via Windows Update . Please note: this update only applies to IE5.01 SP4. Users running the supported versions of IE6 or later do not need to apply this update.
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Monday, February 13, 2006 4:32 PM

Suppressing Dialogs on Background Tabs

Hi, I’m Tony Schreiner , and as you may recall from an earlier post I work on the tabbed browsing architecture in IE7. One of the new features in the IE7 Beta 2 Preview is the ability to suppress modal dialogs from background tabs. This addresses one
Posted by ieblog | 55 Comments
Monday, February 13, 2006 11:17 AM

Tabbed Browsing User Experience in the Beta 2 Preview

We didn’t introduce tabs in the Beta 2 Preview, but we did improve our experience a lot! We heard a ton of feedback from Beta 1, and made some great changes that I’m confident will be appreciated. I’d like to remind everyone about what we introduced in
Posted by ieblog | 109 Comments
Friday, February 10, 2006 4:29 PM

Search in IE7

Several parties have made claims about how search works in IE7. I think those claims are awfully confusing, especially for anyone who has used the product. In this post, I want to describe our overall approach to how search works in IE7 and some of the
Posted by ieblog | 72 Comments
Friday, February 10, 2006 4:01 PM

Quick Tabs

Hi, this is Uche again, I am back to talk about Quick Tabs, a visual way of managing tabs in Internet Explorer that complements the tabbed browsing experience quite nicely. This feature came about when we realized there were two main issues users were
Posted by ieblog | 64 Comments
Friday, February 10, 2006 9:47 AM

The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

About once or twice a day, we get an email from someone asking why it is that IE 7 isn't detecting an RSS feed on a particular page that clearly has a feed associated with it. Usually, this means that there's an RSS or XML button somewhere on the page.
Posted by ieblog | 38 Comments
Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:05 PM

Protected Mode in Vista IE7

Hi, I’m Mike Friedman. I work on the IE team in the area of security. You may remember me from my previous IE blog post . We here on the IE team have a continuing focus on making web browsing safe from a variety of outside threats. Microsoft Windows Vista
Posted by ieblog | 106 Comments
Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:02 AM

Visit with IE team members at a conference in your area soon!

Members of the IE team will be traveling far and wide over the next month, attending conferences and speaking with you, our customers, about IE7. Look for us at RSA next week and Blackhat Europe , South by Southwest , and Mix06 in March. We’re considering
Posted by ieblog | 14 Comments
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:46 PM

IE Developer Toolbar Beta 2

Beta 2 of the developer toolbar is now available. Beta 2 includes numerous fixes to improve stability, usability and performance along with a couple of additional features such as the ability to enable and disable CSS on the page. The developer toolbar
Posted by ieblog | 71 Comments
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:19 AM

The Keyboard Lover’s Guide to IE7

Many are content to spend all day clicking fancy looking buttons or menu items in order to get their tasks accomplished, but those who know the correct keyboard and mouse shortcuts can often get around applications more efficiently: Browsing the web with
Posted by ieblog | 135 Comments
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:00 PM

Searching is better in Beta 2!

In a previous post , I introduced our Beta 1 search functionality and mentioned we would soon ensure you can add search providers to IE without executable code or a masterful knowledge of the registry. Now that we’ve released the Beta 2 Preview I’d like
Posted by ieblog | 103 Comments
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:36 PM

Talk to the IE team

On Thursday Feb 9 th at 10:00AM PST there will be a public Expert Zone chat on Internet Explorer . The Expert Zone is a community of Windows enthusiasts and this is the Internet Explorer team’s turn to host a chat session. Members of the IE team will
Posted by ieblog | 71 Comments
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:37 AM

Page Zoom in IE7

Hello again, I hope you have been enjoying the IE7 Beta. Today I want to briefly tell you about one of the cool new features we have developed for IE7: Page Zoom. This feature allows the user to effectively zoom in on a web page to make it easier to see
Posted by ieblog | 90 Comments
Monday, February 06, 2006 3:19 PM

Favorites Center

I am Jeremy Epling, a Program Manager on the IE User Experience team. One of my foci for IE7 has been improving the Favorites and History experience. I want to tell you about the new features we added and the motivation that was behind them. The IE6 experience
Posted by ieblog | 102 Comments
Monday, February 06, 2006 1:33 PM

Thanks, Seahawks!

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers on their fifth Super Bowl victory. Special congratulations to Ben Roethlisberger, the Steelers quarterback who wears the number 7. While we obviously wished things had turned out differently, we’re glad to see
Posted by ieblog | 19 Comments
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Monday, February 06, 2006 1:27 PM

IE7 Printing: An Experience You Won’t Want To Miss

In my previous post , I gave a glimpse of what to come in IE7 and printing. Now that the Beta 2 Preview build is publicly available I like to walk you through all the additions we added to printing and print preview. Internal studies showed that printing
Posted by ieblog | 95 Comments
Friday, February 03, 2006 12:55 PM

ClearType Text in IE7

Hello there, I’m Peter Gurevich, one of the many program managers on the IE team. My primary feature area focus is on the rendering and display in the browser, including the decoding and display of images and the rendering of Text. I wanted to briefly
Posted by ieblog | 198 Comments
Friday, February 03, 2006 10:13 AM

A quick note on the Beta 2 Preview user agent string

At the end of April of last year, we blogged about the new Internet Explorer 7 User Agent string. Since our original blog posting, we have also posted two new articles on this topic to MSDN: Understanding User-Agent Strings , and Best Practices for detecting
Posted by ieblog | 52 Comments
Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:50 PM

What’s New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview?

We have heard all your feedback asking us for full CSS compliance. With the now public available Beta 2 Preview build on XP, we get a big step closer to this goal. Chris talked about our priorities for IE7 before , but I want to give more detail on our
Posted by ieblog | 227 Comments
Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:35 AM

Part 1: Hello feeds

Hi, I'm Jane. Everyone I know spends their free time browsing the internet… whether it’s catching up on the news, reading friends’ blog, or looking for that perfect web deal, book, person. But scanning a site to see what you’ve read versus what’s new
Posted by ieblog | 68 Comments
Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:22 PM

A New Look for IE

Hello, I’m Max Stevens, and I recently joined the IE team as a Program Manager working on the user experience. In anticipation of our next major pre-release of IE, I’d like to give an overview of some of the great work we’ve done in the UI, especially
Posted by ieblog | 387 Comments
Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:10 PM

Security issue in IE7?

We received reports this morning that a security researcher had found a bug in the IE7 Beta 2 Preview release. This issue reportedly crashes IE and is exploitable to execute arbitrary code on the user’s computer. Naturally, we take the security of IE
Posted by ieblog | 41 Comments
Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:26 PM

Windows RSS Platform

Hello, Walter from the land of IE Program Managers here. You might have seen or read about the RSS functionality in the user interface of IE7 Beta 2 Preview. There is a bit more to it then just letting users subscribe and read feeds from the IE7 user
Posted by ieblog | 49 Comments
 
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