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IE9 Feedback: Platform Previews through Beta
Thanks for your Feedback!When we released the first IE9 Platform Preview, we talked about the...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/23/2011
W3C Geolocation API in IE9
IE9 RC includes support for the W3C Geolocation API, which enables Web developers to request the...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/17/2011
User Experiences – Listen, Learn, Refine
Your feedback is an essential part of how we refine the user experience for the final product. The...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/15/2011
IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements
IE9 introduces improvements to the interfaces used by assistive technologies (ATs) to enhance the...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/15/2011
Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate available via Automatic Update
Starting today, Monday, February 14, 2011, the Automatic Update (AU) feature of Windows Update (WU)...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/14/2011
IE9 on Windows Phone
Today’s announcement that IE9 will come to Windows Phone reflects our commitment to deliver the best...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/14/2011
Acting on Feedback: IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download
The Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9, available now at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 40...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/10/2011
HTML5 Privacy: Transparency in a Complex On-Line World
Today the University of California Berkeley Center for Law & Technology held a Browser Privacy...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/09/2011
Summarizing Common Browser Tests
To deliver on the industry promise of “same markup,” browsers must implement features in the same...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/09/2011
February 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer Now Available
The February 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/08/2011
Focusing on Real World Web Performance with Internet Explorer 9
One engineering objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to build the world’s fastest browser....
Author: ieblog Date: 02/08/2011
Testing Multiple Versions of IE on One PC
Previous posts described the importance of developing sites with feature detection and debugging a...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/04/2011
HTML5 and Web Video: Questions for the Industry from the Community
A Web without video would be a dull Web and consumers, developers and businesses want video on the...
Author: ieblog Date: 02/02/2011
HTML5 Blizzard: Full Hardware Acceleration in Action
With Internet Explorer 9 the entire web platform is fully hardware accelerated. Customers will...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/26/2011
Update: Effectively Protecting Consumers from Online Tracking
Since December’s technology announcement about IE9’s Tracking Protection feature, we’ve seen a lot...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/25/2011
Working with Pinned Sites
With Internet Explorer 9 Beta, you can pin a Web site to the Windows 7 taskbar the same way you pin...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/17/2011
The CSS Corner: CSS3 Media Queries
As we announced with our second Platform Preview last year, IE9 supports CSS3 Media Queries. CSS3...
Author: ieblog Date: 01/12/2011
IEBlog 2010: Connecting With You
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Author: ieblog Date: 01/05/2011
Happy Hardware Accelerated Holidays
Here are two new HTML5 experiences you can run in your browser, designed in the spirit of the...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/22/2010
HTML5, Site-Ready and Experimental
As the technologies around HTML5 continue to develop, people need a better way to distinguish the...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/21/2010
IE December Cumulative Security Update Now Available
The IE Cumulative Security Update for December 2010 is now available via Windows Update. This...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/14/2010
Enhanced Protection with IE9’s SmartScreen Filter
A new research report from independent information-security research and testing organization NSS...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/14/2010
ECMAScript 5 Part 2: Array Extras
Last time in our series on IE9 support for ES5, we talked about new functions like Object.create and...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/13/2010
IE9 and Privacy: Introducing Tracking Protection
The feedback and conversation on IE9’s Platform Previews and Beta to date from many different...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/07/2010
Flash Player 10.2 Beta Supports IE9’s Hardware Acceleration
Earlier this week, Adobe announced a beta release of Flash Player 10.2 that includes Internet...
Author: ieblog Date: 12/03/2010
Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers
Typically the job of a web browser is to download and display content-- establishing a network...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/30/2010
Web Standards development at the W3C TPAC 2010
Last year I wrote about the W3C’s annual Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC)...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/29/2010
Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Today we released a recommended update for all Internet Explorer 9 Beta customers via Windows Update...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/23/2010
HTML5, and Real World Site Performance: Seventh IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
Performance on the web is multi-dimensional. Real websites call on many different browser subsystems...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/17/2010
IE9, Vendor Prefixes, and Developers
The Sixth Platform Preview of IE9 includes support for CSS3 2D Transforms. Similar to the use of...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/15/2010
Take advantage of Windows Summit 2010 to learn about IE9
The Windows Summit is a website designed for people who want to build solutions with Internet...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/11/2010
Web Page Performance in a Standards Compliant and Interoperable way
At Velocity, we showed Internet Explorer 9 as the first browser to support the W3C Navigation Timing...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/09/2010
Tuning Add-on Performance: Windows Live Messenger Companion
Since we released IE9 Beta we’ve received lots of great feedback on the Add-on Performance...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/05/2010
10K Apart
Today we feature a post by Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen, web standards evangelists at MIX...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/03/2010
Sub-pixel Fonts in IE9
Internet Explorer 9 introduces sub-pixel ClearType® font positioning as part of its...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/03/2010
XHTML in IE9
IE9 is the first version of Internet Explorer to natively support XHTML. For those not familiar,...
Author: ieblog Date: 11/01/2010
HTML5, Using the whole PC: Sixth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
We’ve had 10 million downloads in the six weeks since we released the IE9 beta. That...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/28/2010
ECMAScript 5 Part 1: Reusable Code
In June, we wrote about IE9’s support for ECMAScript 5 (ES5) and published a TestDrive demo to...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/27/2010
MIME-Handling Changes in Internet Explorer
Each type of file delivered from a web server has an associated MIME type (also called a...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/26/2010
Testing sites with Browser Mode vs. Doc Mode
With site developers verifying that their sites run well in IE9 and taking advantage of the new...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/19/2010
DOMParser and XMLSerializer in IE9 Beta
We've talked a lot about UI and browser features lately. Today I want to get back to web development...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/15/2010
User Experiences: Evolving IE9 Tabs in Windows 7
With IE9, we wanted to make tabs more useful than ever before. We know that tabs are a great way to...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/14/2010
“Stranger Danger” - Introducing SmartScreen® Application Reputation
When we released the IE9 beta about a month ago we talked about the importance of trust and...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/13/2010
The IE Cumulative Security Update for October 2010 is now available via Windows Update
The IE Cumulative Security Update for October 2010 is now available via Windows Update. This...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/13/2010
CSS 2.1 Implementation Reports
I want to provide an update to my last blog post about the W3C process that we follow to develop and...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/08/2010
Add-on Performance Part 3: Optimizing Add-on Startup Performance
In the first post of this series, we described how add-ons can decrease IE’s performance...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/07/2010
Add-ons: Feedback on Add-on Performance Advisor
Typically in blog posts we focus on the negative feedback we’ve heard, and the changes we make...
Author: ieblog Date: 10/07/2010
Add-ons: Detecting and Displaying Add-on Version Numbers
In the past months we worked with add-on developers to release new versions of their add-ons that...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/30/2010
IE9’s faster, more capable Compatibility View List
We have talked about our goal with IE9 to run the same standards-based markup as other browsers by...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/29/2010