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Friday, November 27, 2009 8:37 PM

The JVM Install Prompt

Many years ago, Microsoft developed an implementation of a Java Virtual Machine to run Java content. Internet Explorer 5 included code that would download and install the JVM (if needed) when a user encountered Java content on the web. After some time,
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Monday, October 12, 2009 12:01 PM

Capturing Crash Dumps for Analysis

Sometimes, folks report crashes to the IE team that we are unable to reproduce internally. That’s usually because, as mentioned often, most crashes are caused by buggy browser add-ons. In some cases, however, crashes occur even when running with browser
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 4:51 PM

Understanding DEP/NX

Despite being one of the crucial security features of modern browsers, Data Execution Prevention / No Execute (DEP/NX) is not well understood by most users, even technical experts without a security background. In this post, I’ll try to provide some insight
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:19 AM

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.
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Friday, September 18, 2009 2:18 AM

Two New Tools Available from the SDL Team

Yesterday, IE Team alumnus Jeremy Dallman posted over on the Security Development Lifecycle team’s blog, announcing the release of BinScope and MiniFuzz . These two tools are part of the toolset that the Internet Explorer team uses to help verify the
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:01 PM

Preventing Automatic Hyperlinking in ContentEditable HTML

Today, a question from the mail bag… Q: Is there a way to stop IE from “auto-magically” recognizing and creating hyperlinks inside HTML? First, a bit of context. Web developers can use the ContentEditable property to allow users to edit part of a HTML
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:49 AM

My Favorite IE Add-on: Ralph Hare’s Mouse Gestures

Unfortunately, I spend a lot of time dealing with problems users encounter when using Internet Explorer. As a result, when I write about add-ons, I’m usually talking about misbehaving code that is wrecking the browser. However, it’s not all doom-and-gloom
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:40 PM

Q&A: Rendering Mode for Web Browser Controls (WebOCs)

Q: Eric, you mentioned that the IE8 Web Browser Control, hosted in Forms / WPF, runs in IE7 emulation mode by default. Is there a way to turn the emulation mode off and have the control work in "real" IE8 mode? A: Yes. This is controlled by a feature
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:29 PM

The Privacy Impact of Add-ons: New APIs for IE8

By default, when starting a new session using IE8's InPrivate Browsing feature, toolbars and Browser Helper Objects are disabled. This is done to help protect the user's privacy: many toolbars and extensions maintain their own navigation/search/etc history
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Friday, June 19, 2009 10:57 PM

WebOCs, popups, and the default browser

Applications which host the WebOC (Web Browser control) may choose to support popups and new windows by hooking the NewWindow3 event and returning in ppDisp a pointer to a new, hidden, non-navigated WebBrowser object or InternetExplorer object. If such
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