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The User-Agent String: Use and Abuse

When I first joined the IE team five years ago, I became responsible for the User-Agent string. While I’ve owned significantly more “important” features over the years, on a byte-for-byte basis, few have proved as complicated as the “simple” UA string.

Understanding Domain Names in Internet Explorer

Web browsers use domain names for a variety of purposes, but how they’re used is much more complicated than most developers realize. In this post, I’ll attempt to cover the most important aspects of this topic. Definitions When talking about “domains”
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Same Origin Policy Part 1: No Peeking

Despite its role as the cornerstone of web application security, it’s clear that many (most?) web professionals do not understand Same Origin Policy (SOP), or hold one or more misconceptions about what SOP requires. It’s a big topic, and I don’t plan
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Slowing Down: Disabling the Accelerator icon

We've had a few folks write to the IEBlog asking " How can I disable the little blue accelerator icon that appears when text is selected in a HTML page? " For end users, the answer is straightforward: Click Tools > Internet Options > Advanced ,
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