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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:47 PM

What Happened to Operation Aborted?

Have you ever seen this dialog while surfing the web in Internet Explorer? You browse to your favorite news site. The content starts loading, you've already started reading the headline, and then it happens. Those of you familiar with the operation aborted
Posted by ieblog | 77 Comments
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:00 PM

Give Your Eyes a Treat

If you’re a developer, there’s an easy way to give your eyes a rest and make yourself more productive. Use the Consolas font Microsoft developed specifically for you. When we began work on a project to create a new set of fonts which would take maximum
Posted by ieblog | 69 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 4:50 PM

April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, April 17 th at 10.00 PDT/17.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. If you can’t join us online, all
Posted by ieblog | 36 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:26 PM

HTML and DOM Standards Compliance in IE8 Beta 1

With the release of IE8 Beta 1, I'm pleased to be able to talk about the first round of improved standards compliance and bug fixes in IE's HTML and DOM support for the new IE8 standards mode . Doug hinted at some of these improvements, and I wrote a
Posted by ieblog | 85 Comments
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:00 AM

IE8 Security Part I: DEP/NX Memory Protection

Hi, I’m Eric Lawrence from the Internet Explorer Security Team. With the RSA security conference kicking off this week, I wanted to start sharing more information about the security features and benefits of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. Over the next several
Posted by ieblog | 40 Comments
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:56 AM

IE Automatic Component Activation Now Available

The IE Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) update is now available as part of the April 2008 Internet Explorer Cumulative Update . The "click to activate" behavior, formerly required for ActiveX controls embedded in some webpages, is now permanently
Posted by ieblog | 17 Comments
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:54 AM

IE April Security is Now Available

The IE Cumulative Security Update for April 2008 is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update . I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already
Posted by ieblog | 17 Comments
Monday, April 07, 2008 2:00 PM

IE8 Beta 1 For Developers Now Available in Chinese (Simplified) and German

The IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Chinese (Simplified) and German versions of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 for Developers. The two languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 1 , released March
Posted by ieblog | 11 Comments
Friday, April 04, 2008 10:33 AM

Designing for Add-on Performance

As we worked towards the recent release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, the IE team focused hard on performance. As part of our effort to improve IE, our investigations have revealed several add-on performance problems. In this post, I want to share some
Posted by ieblog | 34 Comments
 
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