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W3C SVG Working Group Update for January 2010
In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group....
Author: ieblog Date: 02/01/2010
IE Cumulative Security Update Now Available
Today we released a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. We’ve released this...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/21/2010
Add-on Guidelines in Action – Crawler Toolbar
A new version of the Crawler Toolbar has recently been released and comes with many improvements to...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/14/2010
Microsoft Joins W3C SVG Working Group
As a part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability and standards support,...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/05/2010
Welcome 2010!
Happy Nw Year!
Author: ieblog Date: 01/01/2010
Accelerator Creation Guide
IntroductionThere are a lot of really cool services out there, and I think a lot of them would fit...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/23/2009
Recap of Add-on-Con
We’ve just returned from Add-on-Con, an annual conference for browser add-on developers held...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/17/2009
IE December Security Update Now Available
The IE Cumulative Security Update for December 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/08/2009
IE8 SmartScreen in action
Last week at PDC, as we were about to start talking to people about IE9, I saw the following...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/23/2009
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/18/2009
My Favorite IE Add-on: Mouse Gestures by Ralph Hare
I spend a lot of time dealing with problems users encounter when using Internet Explorer. As a...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/13/2009
IE October 2009 Security Update Now Available
The IE Cumulative Security Update for October 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/13/2009
Add-on Guidelines in action – AVG Security Toolbar
The AVG Security Toolbar team has recently released a new version of their toolbar. It has a more...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/06/2009
Supporting Web Standards Development with SuperPreview
This post is a guest post from Steve Guttman, of the Expression Web team. Expression Web has created...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/15/2009
Guidelines for add-on developers
It’s well understood that the typical computer users today spend much of their time in their...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/09/2009
Preventing Operation Aborted Scenarios
This post follows up on my original Operation Aborted post to provide some additional information...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/03/2009
Real-World Protection With IE8’s SmartScreen Filter™
Back in March, I posted a note to the IEBlog when the pre-release version of IE8’s SmartScreen...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/13/2009
Engineering POV: IE6
The topic of site support for IE6 has had a lot of discussion on the web recently as a result of a...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/10/2009
Engineering POV
To date, this blog has focused on the engineering specifics of what we've done with the IE product....
Author: ieblog Date: 08/10/2009
Internet Explorer July Out-of-Band Cumulative Security Update
Internet Explorer is releasing an out-of-band update available via Windows Update. Alternatively,...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/28/2009
Check Out the New Developer Tools Tutorials
I’d like to invite you to check out the new tutorials added to the Developer Tools content....
Author: ieblog Date: 07/23/2009
Update on the Compatibility View List in Internet Explorer 8
I’ve written a few posts about the Microsoft-supplied Compatibility View List on the IEBlog,...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/21/2009
How to make IE open new tabs faster
Browser add-ons are a great way to enhance the experience and capabilities of your Web browser....
Author: ieblog Date: 07/18/2009
Changes to IE8's First Run
This blog post details a change we’re making to IE8’s first run experience, previously...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/16/2009
Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Security Mitigations in Use
BackgroundAs a part of the July security bulletin, Microsoft yesterday released an update to...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/15/2009
IE Compatibility List Pruning
Hi, I am Michael Benny, a tester on networking in Internet Explorer. During the Internet Explorer 8...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/01/2009
IT Professionals: Prepare for Internet Explorer 8 availability via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in August 2009
For those of you who manage your organization’s desktops using Windows Server Update Services...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/29/2009
How we used user research data to help design Compatibility View
There have already been a few posts on Compatibility View in Internet Explorer 8 (here, here, here,...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/19/2009
Compatibility View and "Smart Defaults"
I’ve mentioned in several previous posts how Internet Explorer 8 displays pages in its most...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/17/2009
June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday
Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, June 18th at 10.00...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/15/2009
IE8 Smart Address bar: What’s new
During the IE8 beta periods, we unveiled a bunch of exciting new changes to the address bar....
Author: ieblog Date: 06/12/2009
IE June Security Update Now Available
The IE Cumulative Security Update for June 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/09/2009
The CSS Corner: writing-mode
Introduction The writing-mode property enables text layout for non-Latin languages like Japanese and...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/29/2009
Rescheduled: May Chat with the Internet Explorer
The May IE Chat has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 28st at 10.00 PST/17.00 UTC. We apologize for...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/20/2009
Making the Web Bigger Part 1: Improvements to Zoom
As display technologies advance and the world begins to fully embrace accessibility on the web, the...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/18/2009
The tastiest dog food yet
This post is intended for IT administrators, but more technical users might also find it useful....
Author: ieblog Date: 05/13/2009
IE8: Nine Things You Didn't Know You Could Do
Our typical posts here are original information about the product from the people who built the...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/12/2009
IE8 on Windows 7: The New Taskbar
Hi again! I’m Helen Drislane, a Program Manager on the IE team and I will be discussing how IE...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/11/2009
IE Setup Experience, just the facts (and the screenshots)
This post walks through the IE setup experience and the choices it offers users. There have been a...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/09/2009
Accelerator Platform on Windows 7
When designing Accelerators for IE8, we had a number of scenarios in mind. Primarily, we looked at...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/07/2009
Session Cookies, sessionStorage, and IE8 or “How can I log into two webmail accounts at the same time?”
For Internet Explorer 8, we’ve made browser session handling a lot simpler. For instance, say...
Author: ieblog Date: 05/06/2009
IE Testing VPC Images Updated
Just wanted to get a post out to let people know that we’ve updated the IE VPC Test images....
Author: ieblog Date: 05/06/2009