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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:20 PM

Session Cookies, sessionStorage, and IE8 or “How can I log into two webmail accounts at the same time?”

For Internet Explorer 8, we’ve made browser session handling a lot simpler. For instance, say you want to have two Hotmail windows open, each logged into a different account. Simply click the New Session item on the File menu, and a new browser window
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Monday, April 20, 2009 5:38 PM

Customization in IE8

I am a user interface tester on the Internet Explorer team and one of my favorite things about any application is the ability to personalize the program to give it your own look and feel. I am never content with ubiquitous one-size–fits-all solutions
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:22 PM

I found a web page that doesn't work, now what?

We’ve previously blogged about Compatibility View ; this post is a follow-up on compatibility and Internet Explorer 8 RC1. As you are browsing the web with Internet Explorer 8 RC1, you might come across some web sites where everything is not displayed
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:04 PM

Personalize IE8 through Services

One of the things that I learned from working on IE is that there are common patterns of how users browse the web, yet what they browse varies person to person. We designed Visual Search Suggestions, Accelerators, and Web Slices to simplify common patterns
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:21 PM

User Experience Changes since Beta 2

Since the release of Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, we’ve listened, watched and learned a lot about how people use the new features and our focus has been to refine them for RC1 (the Release Candidate). This post will give you an overview of the end user
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Monday, January 26, 2009 11:58 AM

Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1

Hello all, Just like for previous beta releases, I am going to guide you through the upgrade steps for Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (IE8 RC1). Before we begin, let me summarize the major changes you will see when installing IE8 RC1: If you
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Friday, January 23, 2009 3:03 PM

Common Issues in Assessing Browser Performance

I’m Christian Stockwell, a Program Manager on the IE team focused on browser performance. Measuring the overall performance of websites and web browsers is important for users comparing the performance characteristics of competitive browsers, developers
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:57 PM

New Accessibility Features in IE8

Hi, my name is JP Gonzalez-Castellan and I’m the Accessibility Program Manager for IE8. The IE team has been working towards making IE8 the most accessible browser possible, and we wanted to detail some of the work we’ve done toward this end. In this
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:28 PM

IE8 Group Policy

Hi. In previous posts I talked about the IE8 IEAK and new event logging for IE8 in the Application Compatibility Toolkit . Today, I’m going to discuss the improvements we made to Group Policy support for Internet Explorer 8. Background For those of you
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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,
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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®
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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
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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
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:11 PM

Introducing Compatibility View

At the start of the Internet Explorer 8 project we made a commitment to great website compatibility. It’s worth noting that this commitment hasn’t changed, even given the short-term impact of our announcement to better align with Microsoft’s interoperability
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:58 AM

Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

I am here to tell you how to upgrade to IE8 Beta 2. IE8 Beta 2 system requirements are the same as IE8 Beta 1 and it’s currently available in English, Chinese Simplified, German and Japanese. Stay tuned for more localized IE8 Beta 2 versions to be available
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