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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:24 PM

Update on the Compatibility View List in Internet Explorer 8

I’ve written a few posts about the Microsoft-supplied Compatibility View List on the IEBlog, calling out the what, how, and why of the feature. I wanted to take this opportunity to bring the community up to speed on what’s transpired since Internet Explorer
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:31 PM

IE Compatibility List Pruning

Hi, I am Michael Benny, a tester on networking in Internet Explorer. During the Internet Explorer 8 development cycle I was responsible for verifying many of the pieces of Compatibility View. We have discussed earlier about how the Compatibility View
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Friday, June 19, 2009 2:00 PM

How we used user research data to help design Compatibility View

There have already been a few posts on Compatibility View in Internet Explorer 8 ( here , here , here , here , here , and here ), but none have gone into detail about the user research data we used to help design this feature. We collected data on Compatibility
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:39 PM

Compatibility View and "Smart Defaults"

I’ve mentioned in several previous posts how Internet Explorer 8 displays pages in its most standards compliant mode by default – a configuration that emphasizes interoperability. This creates some challenges with regards to compatibility with existing
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Monday, March 30, 2009 9:39 AM

Compatibility View List and IE8 RTW

I’ve blogged about the Compatibility View features included in Internet Explorer 8 a few times during the Beta 2 and Release Candidate milestones. Now that Internet Explorer 8 has released, I wanted to follow-up with a quick post highlighting the content
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:58 PM

Site Compatibility and IE8

Reports of broken sites are an important part of the feedback the IE team receives from the community. When we receive a report of a broken site, we take it and identify the core issue causing the problem. A number of these issues end up being side effects
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:46 PM

More IE8 Extensibility Improvements

We’ve made a few improvements to our extensibility model in IE8 RC1 based on feedback we’ve received both internally and externally. WebBrowser (WebOC) Rendering Mode Changes About a year ago, I posted an entry talking about WebBrowser Control Rendering
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Monday, February 16, 2009 1:23 PM

Just The Facts: Recap of Compatibility View

We’ve said a lot about our approach to website compatibility in general and the Compatibility View feature in particular. But because we've shared this information across multiple blogs and sources, I’d like to quickly recap what we’ve previously announced
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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
Posted by ieblog | 47 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 2:29 PM

Compatibility List FAQ

A few weeks back, we announced Compatibility View improvements available in the Release Candidate build of IE8. As you’ll remember from my previous post, users can choose to receive a list of major sites that are best viewed in Compatibility View . When
Posted by ieblog | 59 Comments
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:12 PM

Yes, we did...

…notice this yesterday while running the Windows 7 Beta: If you open the newly redesigned whitehouse.gov in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 Beta, you’ll notice that the dropdown menus don’t hide correctly when you hover over other menu items. This is
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Friday, January 16, 2009 12:46 PM

Accessibility: Improved ARIA Support in the IE8 RC

Hi, my name is Tony Ross and I’m one of the Program Managers for Internet Explorer. As JP mentioned in an earlier post , the IE Team has been working to make IE8 the most accessible web browser possible. We have also been working on improving interoperability
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:17 PM

Completing Access Control support for XDomainRequest

Back in October , Sunava described changes that we made to the XDomainRequest (XDR) object in IE8 between the Beta 1 and Beta 2 releases. This object allows your AJAX web pages to request data from sites with a different hostname from the page itself,
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Friday, January 09, 2009 12:17 PM

The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition)

As announced in February 2008 , Internet Explorer 8 sends an updated user-agent string when interacting with web servers. Since we last blogged about the User-Agent string, the Internet Explorer team introduced Compatibility View and today, the Windows
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:34 PM

Compatibility View Improvements to come in IE8

The next public update of IE8 (for Windows Vista- and Windows XP-based operating systems as well as the Windows 7 Beta) includes improvements to Compatibility View that help end-users when they visit web sites that are not yet ready for IE8’s new, more
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