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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:43 PM

Font Embedding on the Web

Hi! It’s Bill Hill here again, still fighting the good fight to make typography on the Web as good as we’re used to seeing in print. We made significant progress this week, when one of the USA’s most prestigious font companies announced its support for
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Monday, July 14, 2008 12:22 PM

IE8 AJAX Navigation

Hi, I’m Sharath Udupa, developer on the IE team focusing on AJAX features for IE8. One of the AJAX improvements we adopted in IE8 from HTML5 is AJAX page navigations. In IE8 mode, we provide support for script to update the travel log components (for
Posted by ieblog | 43 Comments
Monday, June 23, 2008 12:01 PM

Securing Cross Site XMLHttpRequest

As I mentioned in my post on Cross Document Messaging , client side cross domain request is an important area of interest for AJAX developers looking for ways to avoid expensive server side proxying calls. While Cross Document Messaging is useful for
Posted by ieblog | 61 Comments
Friday, June 13, 2008 1:49 PM

June Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat next Thursday, June 19 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 attended
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:15 PM

Introducing IE=EmulateIE7

Bill Gates’ recent Tech Ed keynote and Tony Chor’s follow-up blog announced that IE8 Beta 2 will be available in August in many languages. We are encouraging sites to get ready for Beta 2 prior to release as it will present a big jump in IE8 browsing
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:32 PM

ECMAScript Security

Related to the IE Blog post around mashups in Internet Explorer 8, the Jscript team has a great post on ECMAScript, Security and Mashups over on their blog. Check it out! Kristen Kibble IE Program Manger
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Monday, May 19, 2008 2:11 PM

Enabling Mashups in Internet Explorer 8 with Cross Document Messaging

Hello, I’m Sunava Dutta and I’m the Program Manager focused on improving our AJAX scenarios in IE8. In this short post I’ll introduce you to a feature we’re implementing in the browser that enables safer mashups. The Same Origin Policy (SOP) requires
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Monday, May 12, 2008 12:01 PM

Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Hi all, Last week, I blogged about installing Windows XP SP3 and how it affects different versions of Internet Explorer (See my earlier blog post here ). Today I will be discussing installing branded/custom versions of IE7 on machines with Windows XP
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:30 AM

IE8 Security Part II: ActiveX Improvements

Hi, I’m Matt Crowley, Program Manager for Extensibility with Internet Explorer. The team was very excited to be at the RSA security conference last month discussing the security features of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. In this, the second part of the IE8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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