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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:01 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers – Standards Highlights Part 2

With Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers now out in the wild, we have received a good deal of positive feedback regarding our plans for CSS. The feedback includes the need for the specifics around CSS support for IE8 Standards Mode for both the
Posted by ieblog | 111 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:19 PM

Internet Explorer 8 and Adaptive Zoom

Hi! I am Saloni Mira Rai, a program manager on the Layout team, and I’d like to walk you through the changes in Zoom for Internet Explorer 8. Zoom lets you enlarge or reduce the view of a web page to improve readability. The feature is particularly useful
Posted by ieblog | 51 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:20 PM

Add-on Management Improvements in Internet Explorer 8

One of our goals with Internet Explorer 8 was to improve the experience of managing add-ons by bringing more types of add-ons into the management experience, and to make that experience more usable. Originally introduced in Windows XP Service Pack 2,
Posted by ieblog | 70 Comments
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:59 AM

WebBrowser Control Rendering Modes in IE8

Many commonly used applications and Windows system components depend on the MSIE WebBrowser control to render webpages from within their program. Unlike live sites, pages loaded within these controls are typically static resources stored in libraries
Posted by ieblog | 45 Comments
Monday, March 17, 2008 1:45 PM

IE8 Beta Expert Zone Chats

After a successful run with the IE7 beta, we’re bringing back our monthly online Expert Zone Chats with members of the IE team. The first is this Thursday, March 20 th at 10:00 PDT/17:00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions
Posted by ieblog | 33 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:05 AM

Installing IE8

Hi, My name is Jane Maliouta and I’m the program manager for IE8 Deployment and Management. When you install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 there are a few important things to do before you start. First, I recommend you review the system requirements to make
Posted by ieblog | 52 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:13 PM

The IE8 Favorites Bar

Hi, my name is Helen, I am a Program Manager on the User Experience team of Internet Explorer, and I’m happy to introduce the IE8 Favorites bar! New Functionality on the Favorites bar : The Favorites bar, previously known as the Links toolbar, has been
Posted by ieblog | 67 Comments
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:50 PM

IE8 and Loosely-Coupled IE (LCIE)

Hi, my name is Andy Zeigler, and I’m a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer Foundations team. I’d like to tell you about a new IE8 feature called Loosely-Coupled IE, or LCIE for short. Essentially, LCIE is a collection of internal architecture changes
Posted by ieblog | 42 Comments
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:05 AM

Address Bar Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Hey everyone, Christopher here. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged anything here (over a year in fact). While my role in IE7 was focused on security community outreach , for IE8 I’m focused on increasing security, and delivering great end-user features.
Posted by ieblog | 106 Comments
Sunday, March 09, 2008 6:04 PM

Using The Emulate IE7 Button

For the Internet Explorer 8 Beta, we’ve added an Emulate IE7 button to the command bar. It will help you with everyday browsing and with quickly checking your site as you work on it. Everyday Browsing If you’re having trouble on a site that you’d like
Posted by ieblog | 43 Comments
Friday, March 07, 2008 12:57 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers – Standards Highlights

Dean mentioned a bunch of things we are doing in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers . I want to point you to more details specifically about the developer focused changes to CSS, the DOM and the new version targeting. Standards support (CSS/HTML)
Posted by ieblog | 134 Comments
Friday, March 07, 2008 10:54 AM

Improved Productivity Through Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools

Over the past year, I’ve written about different tools to help web developers become more productive when developing in Internet Explorer. These tools came from partners inside and outside Microsoft. One – the IE Developer Toolbar – came from the IE team
Posted by ieblog | 61 Comments
Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:52 PM

The Default Layout Mode

During my talk at MIX 08, I covered more background and detail behind the new IE8 layout mode that provides greater standards support, particularly with regards to CSS 2.1, and version targeting . I’d like to follow-up that talk with a brief post on both
Posted by ieblog | 45 Comments
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:30 PM

IE8 and CSS 2.1 Testing

Since I joined the IE team at the beginning of 2007, it has become clear to me how important it is for web developers to predict how a given browser will work. I’ve certainly heard and read how very important it is to web developers to minimize the cost
Posted by ieblog | 50 Comments
Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:44 AM

IE8 and JScript

As Dean mentioned yesterday in his post announcing the availability of the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for developers , better script performance is of particular interest to the developer community. In conjunction with Dean’s announcement, the JScript
Posted by ieblog | 10 Comments
Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:33 AM

Activities and WebSlices in Internet Explorer 8

If you’re like me, you’ve found that it’s pretty hard to keep track of all the new services and sites out there, let alone the ones we use every day. I bookmark my favorite sites and services, but still spend a lot of time trying to find them. A couple
Posted by ieblog | 53 Comments
Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:07 AM

IE8 and IP Licensing

Some of the first things users may notice in the Beta 1 release of Internet Explorer 8 are new features such as Activities and WebSlice. We recognize that the technology behind Activities and Webslice relies on innovations that have come out of the community,
Posted by ieblog | 12 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:16 PM

Why Isn't IE8 Passing Acid2?

Although we said that IE8 Beta 1 passes the ACID2 test , some of you may be seeing results like the image above; we thought we should explain what’s going on. IE8 passes the official ACID2 test hosted on http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
Posted by ieblog | 96 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:16 PM

IE8 Beta Feedback

It’s exciting when we have a new beta to release! The launch of IE8 developer beta is a huge milestone, and we have set up various mechanisms to collect feedback. Before I list out all of our feedback channels for IE8 betas, I want to explain what we
Posted by ieblog | 189 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:25 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Now Available

This morning at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IE team made eight announcements about IE8. The most interesting for many people is that a developer beta is now available. Download it here . The rest of our talks and demos focused on seven other
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:52 PM

Follow IE at MIX08 From Home

MIX08 kicks off in Vegas tomorrow! We’ve got a few sessions lined up and the event opens this year with IE General Manager, Dean Hachamovitch, being among the keynote speakers. For those unable to attend, you can follow along at home by keeping an eye
Posted by ieblog | 38 Comments
Monday, March 03, 2008 2:49 PM

Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles . Thinking
Posted by ieblog | 639 Comments
 
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