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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 | 49 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
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
Posted by ieblog | 55 Comments
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
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
Posted by ieblog | 67 Comments
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
Posted by ieblog | 17 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
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 | 29 Comments
Sunday, March 09, 2008 6:04 PM

Using The Emulate IE7 Button

For the Internet Explorer 8 Beta, we’ve added an Emulate IE7 button to the command bar. It will help you with everyday browsing and with quickly checking your site as you work on it. Everyday Browsing If you’re having trouble on a site that you’d like
Posted by ieblog | 44 Comments
Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:26 PM

Tools for Detecting Memory Leaks

Hi everyone, As many web devs know, it’s relatively easy to build a site which results in memory leaks when viewed in Internet Explorer. IE team members have written MSDN articles on leak patterns , and other sites have posted articles with varying tone,
Posted by ieblog | 24 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:22 PM

Analyzing Web 2.0 Applications with Ajax View

Hi everyone, In June I posted information about a number of developer tools , one of which was Ajax View. Ajax View, developed by Microsoft Research , can help improve a developer's visibility into their web application’s performance and behavior. Recently,
Posted by ieblog | 45 Comments
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:30 PM

Troubleshooting Favicons in IE7

I posted a short FAQ on troubleshooting Favicons in IE7 on my blog . The post has been fairly popular since the initial posting, and these questions come up a lot, so we thought we’d bring it to the attention of the larger IE community. If you have further
Posted by ieblog | 48 Comments
Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:30 PM

An XMLHTTPRequest tip

Over on the Ajax Blog, Dion Almaer passed on an important tip from Brent Ashley and Tim Aiello for AJAX developers – to have your cross-browser AJAX work better with IE7, you really should be invoking the native XMLHttpRequest (the cross-browser one)
Posted by ieblog | 60 Comments
Friday, February 10, 2006 9:47 AM

The little rss icon - what makes it glow?

About once or twice a day, we get an email from someone asking why it is that IE 7 isn't detecting an RSS feed on a particular page that clearly has a feed associated with it. Usually, this means that there's an RSS or XML button somewhere on the page.
Posted by ieblog | 37 Comments
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:00 PM

Searching is better in Beta 2!

In a previous post , I introduced our Beta 1 search functionality and mentioned we would soon ensure you can add search providers to IE without executable code or a masterful knowledge of the registry. Now that we’ve released the Beta 2 Preview I’d like
Posted by ieblog | 97 Comments
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