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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:27 PM

IE8 Tab Grouping

Hi, my name is Helen Drislane, I am a program manager on the IE team responsible for some of the user interface including tabs and I‘m going to discuss the new Tab Grouping feature (tab color!) with you. We had a lot of fun putting this feature together,
Posted by ieblog | 80 Comments
Monday, September 29, 2008 10:52 AM

Statistical Validation of the IE8 XSS Filter

Greetings, I’m Russ McRee of Microsoft’s Online Services Security & Compliance Incident Management team. My team serves as incident handlers for the various types of attacks our online services face. High on the list of incidents we handle are cross-site
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:25 PM

Application Compatibility Logging in IE8

The latest Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) release, ACT 5.0.5428.1080 is publicly available and can be downloaded here . To give you some background, ACT helps customers understand their application compatibility situation by helping identify
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Monday, September 22, 2008 11:26 AM

The IE8 IEAK

Hi, my name is Jatinder Mann and I work on the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) and Group Policy. Back in June , James Pratt and Jane Maliouta alluded to IEAK improvements for IE8. Today, I will be talking about the work we have done in this
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:10 PM

Hello, World: Getting Started with IE8 Visual Search

Hello, My name is Sébastien Zimmermann. I’m the developer owner for the Visual Search Feature , which Sharon already described in detail. I also own the Accelerators Button Feature , and during IE7 worked on Setup and Phishing Filter—now “ SmartScreen®
Posted by ieblog | 54 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:09 PM

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available in 25 Languages

In August 2008, Dean announced the release of IE8 Beta 2 in English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. Today the IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Internet Explorer Beta 2 in 21 additional languages. The languages released today
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Monday, September 15, 2008 12:00 PM

What’s New for IE8 Search

Hello World! I’m Sharon Cohen, Program Manager for Search in Internet Explorer 8. If you’re already using IE8 Beta 2, you’ve probably already seen the new search features available in IE8, perhaps you’ve even tried them out. Today I’d like to show you
Posted by ieblog | 48 Comments
Friday, September 12, 2008 2:28 PM

The IE8 Smart Address Bar Part II: A Few More Features

In an earlier post , we introduced the new IE8 Smart Address Bar dropdown functionality. Now we thought we’d spend some time discussing some of its less obvious features in more detail. More about the IE8 Smart Address Bar Autocomplete Suggestion With
Posted by ieblog | 41 Comments
Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:59 PM

Introducing the IE8 Developer Tools JScript Profiler

Hello! I am Sameer Chabungbam, one of the Program Managers on the JScript Team. The recently released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 contains a lot of improvements which are aimed at making developing web applications on Internet Explorer 8 easier and
Posted by ieblog | 40 Comments
Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:57 AM

The IE8 Smart Address Bar Without Windows Search

As mentioned in the first post on this topic , the IE8 Smart Address Bar works better with Windows Search installed. However, IE8 does not require Windows Search, and IE8 will still provide a superior experience to IE7 if it’s not there. We are going
Posted by ieblog | 31 Comments
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:05 PM

Introducing the IE8 New Tab Page

Hello everyone! One of the features we improved in IE8 is the ‘new tab’ page, which is the page you see by default when you click the New Tab button on the Tab row, or if you hit CTRL+T (the keyboard shortcut that does the same thing). We’re the Program
Posted by ieblog | 53 Comments
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:00 AM

Native JSON in IE8

As you may have guessed from the title of this post, Internet Explorer 8, as of Beta 2, offers native JSON parsing and serialization. This new native JSON functionality enables Internet Explorer 8 aware AJAX applications to run both faster and safer!
Posted by ieblog | 27 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:48 PM

The IE8 Smart Address Bar Part 1: Navigate Easier and Faster

For Beta 1, we discussed some of the technical improvements (like domain highlighting, multi-line paste, and improved click behavior) we made to IE8’s address bar. For Beta 2, we took the covers off of even bigger changes which fit in with our goal of
Posted by ieblog | 44 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:29 PM

What’s New in JScript for IE8 Beta 2

One of the key themes for IE8 is developer productivity. IE8 Beta 1 improved developer productivity through an optimized core scripting engine and script debugger. In this release, we continued to invest in the areas that bring more power and productivity
Posted by ieblog | 24 Comments
Monday, September 08, 2008 5:29 PM

Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions

As you may know, all browsers have a set of CSS features that are either considered a vendor extension (e.g. - ms-interpolation-mode ), are partial implementations of properties that are fully defined in the CSS specifications, or are implementation of
Posted by ieblog | 78 Comments
Monday, September 08, 2008 11:57 AM

Platform Improvements for IE8 Beta 2

We’ve been sharing plenty about the work we’ve done in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for browser users; we also want to share some of the notable advances we’ve made in the web developer platform in Beta 2. This post serves as an overview of the web platform
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Friday, September 05, 2008 11:45 AM

September Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat next Thursday, September 11 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. Thank you to all who have
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:22 PM

Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

In March I wrote about the Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and outlined three key benefits: Integrated and simple-to-use Provide a visual interface to the platform Enable fast experimentation Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 brings the Developer
Posted by ieblog | 98 Comments
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:47 PM

IE8 Security Part VI: Beta 2 Update

Now that Beta 2 has released, I want to provide a short update on some of the smaller security changes the team has recently made. I’ve also linked to a great article on the IE8 XSS Filter implementation written by the architect of that feature. Restricting
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