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Tidbits for Web Developers Targeting IE8

I’ve got two recent IE-related items I wanted to let you know about: SuperPreview for Internet Explorer , and a technique to help track down difficult-to-debug ‘operation aborted’ messages. Super Preview If you're developing for IE8 (and if not, why not?), Read More...
Posted Friday, September 04, 2009 2:29 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 8

Well, it’s week 8 and we’re talking about IE 8, so it seems fitting to wrap up this series here.  The one major feature we haven’t covered in all that much detail is the IE8 Developer Tools, which are included with IE8 on every client installation.  Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 8:31 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 7

This week let’s take a look at some of the document model (DOM) extensions added into IE8, like DOM storage, an AJAX navigation enhancement, safer JSON and HTML handling, improvements to XMLHttpRequest, and cross-domain request support.   DOM Storage Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 1:57 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It's For-IE-day: Week 6

Complementing accelerators, which I talked about last week , Web slices are the other significant end-user feature that you can leverage in your own sites to provide an enhanced experience to IE8 users. You create a Web slice by demarcating some of the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 9:21 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 5

Last week when I wrote about some of the new search capabilities in IE8, I touched on the accelerator feature in IE8, since each search provider is by default installed as an accelerator.  Today, we’ll talk about how to build custom accelerators Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 02, 2009 2:17 AM by joneil | 1 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 4

I often think of Internet searching as a U2 moment, you know, “ I still haven’t found what I’m looking for… ”  Well my life got easier with some of the IE8 search enhancements, and even better, I can add my own custom search providers right in the Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 7:20 PM by joneil | 5 Comments
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IE8 Web Slices on ARCast.tv

Dr. "Z" has launched another new ARCast.TV episode on IE8.  This time he walks us through the creation of Web Slices , a new feature that enables users to subscribe to select contents of existing sites and be informed of updates automatically Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:18 AM by joneil | 1 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 3

Last week we took a look at Compatibility View as a way to retain the older rendering functionality just in case your site wasn’t working quite right (yet!) with IE8. Today, we’ll look at a related aspect, namely how you as web developers can detect that Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 3:34 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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IE8 Accelerators on ARCast.TV

My colleague Bob Familiar of ARCast.TV fame (and all round great guy) has just posted the latest episode of the Channel 9 show, and since I’ve embarked on a weekly blog post series on IE8 features, it’s right up my our alley.  I’ll be covering IE8 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:18 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 2

IE8 is Microsoft’s most standards-compliant browser yet, which is awesome news… unless, of course, your web application relies on non-standard behaviors that previous versions of IE might have handled just the way you wanted.  In other words, a giant Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 3:21 PM by joneil | 2 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 1

Get it? say it real fast...  Ok, it’s a stretch, but given that I’m working on coming up to speed on the latest features of IE8, I figured I might as well drag you all along write it all down!  So over the next few – or more – Fridays (ah... Read More...
Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 4:49 PM by joneil | 2 Comments
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Safer Browsing With IE8

My colleague in New York, Peter Laudati , just alerted me to this report in which IE8 was found to be more than twice as effective as Firefox (and even more so than Opera, Safari, and Chrome) in blocking malware sites.  The study was carried out Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:05 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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IE8

In case you missed Dean Hachamovitch’s keynote at MIX09 this morning, Internet Explorer 8 is now officially released, in 25 languages no less!        Check out the videos here for quick insights into how IE makes browsing easier, faster, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:00 PM by joneil | 4 Comments
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I’ll have an RC

When I was growing up in the South, “RC” meant one thing – Royal Crown Cola .  It’s still around, but certainly RC has a much different connotation in the  technology circles that I’m now part of. It’s that latter interpretation -- “Release Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:13 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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