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The IE blog has announced the availability of the first public beta for IE7: IE7 Beta 2 Preview . This preview isn't intended to be widely used by the general public, but if you're reading this blog you're probably technical enough to try it. Over the
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In the past I’ve found debugging walkthroughs useful for picking up new techniques. In that spirit here’s a quick rundown of a bug I was investigating today that may have some useful tidbits. This was a crash in IE that involved a toolbar that I didn’t
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First, I'll join everybody else in announcing that XP SP2 RC2 is available for download ! If you've put off installing it, now's the time to give it a shot and test all of your favorite applications and web sites. Most of the work recently has been on
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On his blog (and in a comment on my 120 DPI post ) Omar points out a super-secret registry tweak make IE do extra scaling in high DPI mode . IE already adjusts for well-written web pages, but if you're using high DPI and still feeling cramped on some
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Channel9 now has a section dedicated to IE. Jump on in! http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerFeedback
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Many of the security features I've mentioned in previous entries are opt-in, so if you have a custom application that hosts the web browser control you won't automatically be impacted by them. But what about the many great applications that host the web
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See Also: Authenticode - No, and never again! and Information Bar - Stopping the modal dialog madness Microsoft cares a lot about application compatibility. So does the IE team, but we have an additional burden: web site compatibility. I think I can safely
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Want to work in one of the best teams at Microsoft? Both the Shell (as in Explorer, not cmd.exe (or Monad)*) and Internet Explorer teams are hiring SDE s and SDET s. Heck, maybe you could be the one who helps implement tabbed browsing, rendering transparent
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In a response to my first blog entry on IE in XP SP2, Tom Gilder notices another new security prompt on downloaded files for XP SP2: Also, whilst on the subject of XP SP2, if you download a signed EXE to the desktop and run it, it gives you a security
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See Also: Part 1: Authenticode - No and never again! The Information Bar is a new piece of UI that shows up when potentially dangerous actions on a page have been blocked. It appears between the toolbar and the content window, and looks a bit like the
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As you probably know by now, XP SP2 RC1 is publicly available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx . Over the next week or so I'll give an overview of a few of the security features the browser UI team has been working
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