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Some time back I did a video and some demos on how to create IE8 accelerators, search providers and web slices based around a traffic information site I called Trafficify (I know, it’s not pretty, it was never meant to be published but Ian wanted it up
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Web Application Toolkits provide a packaged set of samples, documentation, templates, controls etc to get up and running quickly with a particular technology. When you just want a bit of help to build an IE8 Accelerator or want to add search to your site,
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Microsoft Expression Web includes the capability to render web pages using a variety of different rendering engines. Importantly it includes the IE6 rendering engine so you can render pages in both IE6 and IE7 or IE8 on the same machine. We’ve now made
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Yesterday I was at the UK Silverlight 3 / Expression 3 launch event where we had the official launch announcement for Expression 3. You can find out more on the Expression blog and read about the product details and download trials at the Expression home
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Interested in entering our IE8 competition but not sure where to start? Looking for some inspiration? Just got 10mins to kill? Want to see another cheesey opening? I’ve got just the video for you! In this Bluffer’s Guide I describe IE8 webslices, accelerators
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As part of my ongoing roundup of all things IE8 in celebration of its final release, in this video I take a look at the developer tools built into IE8. As well as helping you debug your HTML and CSS layout, they offer interactive editing of the HTML document
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Though I’d love to do this post in prose I fear it would create some woes At least for me if not for you I shall henceforth revert to normal service [I’m more an e. e. cummings or Charles Bukowski person anyway. Are you familiar with his early work? Why
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One of the new features in IE8 that I really like, simple though it is, is Accelerators. In particular I find it useful for mapping. Addresses tend to be fiddly things to type and why should I cut & paste to a new browser window when I can just highlight
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There are a couple of nice IE8 specific features in Artinsoft’s markup productivity and maintenance tool Aggiorno : Create a web slice Insert / Remove the IE8 Compatibility tag The former provides some template code to make it easy to create a web slice
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After Paulo alerted me to the availability of IE8 RC1 (and after waiting a little while for the links to update from Beta 2 to RC1) I had a seamless install experience. No need to uninstall B2 on Vista, just run the installer and it takes care of the
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I’ve been doing a little bit of XSS work and, in particular, have been testing a website for XSS vulnerabilities. It was clear the site had a reflected (Type 1) vulnerability from simply typing some script code into a suitable input and submitting the
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As I've mentioned before [a] I like jQuery and [b] we'll be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio in the future. I felt I really ought to visit my blog scripts and migrate them to jQuery. My blog scripts aren't very complicated. They perform 4 actions: Add
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PDC's just out of the way and it's already time to start thinking about MIX. I saw this logo on the website and thought we were going to be expected to run a 10K in the desert. Fortunately it's 10K of storage and a challenge to do as much as you can with
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If you want to watch any of the PDC 2008 sessions, you can simple peruse the session list at: http://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx select the session you want to watch and click the "Watch Session Recording" icon. On the other
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If anyone else is struggling trying to get XDR working on IE8 Beta 2 (as I have been) note that the server no longer has to respond with the header: XDomainRequestAllowed: 1 but instead should add the following header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * You
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