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How We Evaluate the Experiences We Engineer
How do you know when an experience is ready for consumers? This is something we ask ourselves all...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/28/2010
User Experiences: Quieter Notifications
Today, there are various ways in which the browser communicates with you to help provide a safe and...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/27/2010
User Experiences: Sites in the Spotlight
The web is changing rapidly. More than ever before, web sites provide highly engaging, immersive...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/20/2010
User Experiences: Accessibility in IE9 Beta
Internet Explorer is a universal product used by people young and old, new and experienced, speaking...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/20/2010
User Experiences: Customizing Pinned Sites
With this week’s beta release, IE9 brings the most familiar experiences of Windows and makes...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/17/2010
User Experiences: Evolving the blue “e”
“IE9 started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences that feel...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/16/2010
Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the whole PC: IE9 Beta Available for Download
Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/15/2010
IE9 Beta Webcast: Tune in
Since March, many of you have downloaded the IE9 platform preview builds and visited the Test Drive...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/14/2010
Performance: What Common Benchmarks Measure
Many enthusiasts want a fast browser, and they want to consistently and easily measure the...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/14/2010
Web Standards: from Working Draft to Recommendation
Complete Web Standards with multiple browser implementations and comprehensive test suites are the...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/13/2010
Interoperable HTML Parsing in IE9
The HTML parser is an important part of how we deliver on same markup because it plays a vital role...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/13/2010
Add-ons, Measuring Performance
After our recent posts on add-ons performance and installation experiences, we’ve seen some...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/12/2010
The Architecture of Full Hardware Acceleration of All Web Page Content
We’re excited that other browsers have started to use hardware to accelerate graphics...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/10/2010
Debugging Common Canvas Issues
As we’ve previously discussed, IE9 includes support for HTML5 canvas. You can test it out right now...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/08/2010
Transitioning Existing Code to the ES5 Getter/Setter APIs
In my recent blog post, Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards, I explained why IE9...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/07/2010
Same Markup: Using , , and
On this blog we’ve repeatedly discussed enabling the "Same Markup" for Internet Explorer...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/03/2010
Add-ons, Installation Experiences, and User Consent
As discussed in previous blog posts, add-ons can have a material impact on browser performance. IE...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/03/2010
Exploring IE9's Enhanced DOM Capabilities
For IE9 Platform Preview 4, we significantly re-architected how the Chakra JavaScript engine...
Author: ieblog Date: 09/02/2010
Add-on Performance part 2: Helping consumers make informed decisions
The platform previews show the focus in IE9 on performance, interoperable HTML5 through same markup,...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/31/2010
Getting Ready for SVG Open
I recently demonstrated Test Driving Modern SVG using the SVG Dice sample currently on the Internet...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/31/2010
Performance: Profiling how different web sites use browser subsystems
When we first showed IE9 at the Professional Developers Conference last fall, we discussed how real...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/30/2010
More on SVG
The first IE9 Platform Preview unveiled IE9’s initial support of SVG. As explained previously,...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/27/2010
Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards
How do we decide whether to implement a feature that isn’t included in a standards specification?...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/25/2010
Making Sites Look Their Best in Standards Mode
IE has traditionally drawn a 2-pixel border around the content area of a site. This border, drawn as...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/23/2010
Microsoft to Co-Chair New W3C Web Performance Working Group
Earlier this morning the W3C announced the formation of a new Web Performance Working Group...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/18/2010
IE9, Opacity, and Alpha
IE9 introduces support for the CSS3 Color Module, including its popular opacity property. As we have...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/17/2010
Add-ons, and Opting out of Google Analytics Without Them
Recently, Google made available the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.” This...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/16/2010
Add-on Guidelines and Requirements in Action – Upgrade Advisor
We’ve blogged in the past about guidelines and requirements that we’ve published to help...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/11/2010
IE August Cumulative Security Update Now Available
The IE Cumulative Security Update for August 2010 is now available via Windows Update. This security...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/10/2010
Add-on Performance Part 1: Measuring Add-on Performance
In previous posts, we’ve written about the ways we’re making IE9 much faster, like the...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/03/2010
Online privacy, Tracking, and IE8’s InPrivate Filtering
Online privacy and tracking have been in several news articles and public hearings lately. The...
Author: ieblog Date: 08/01/2010
DOM Traversal
The latest Platform Preview Build includes two great interoperable features for working with the DOM...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/30/2010
How IE9 Platform Preview Feedback Changed the JavaScript Standard
When we first introduced our plans for Internet Explorer Platform Previews we said that...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/16/2010
The CSS Corner: Better Web Typography For Better Design
Lost In Translation “Web design is 95% typography”. So much of the content produced and...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/15/2010
Caching Improvements in Internet Explorer 9
The network plays a crucial role in the overall performance of a web browser. The best way to...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/14/2010
A GPU-Powered Shopping Experience with Amazon.com
A few weeks ago, we talked about the performance characteristics of our Flickr Explorer sample. We...
Author: ieblog Date: 07/06/2010
IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas
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Author: ieblog Date: 07/01/2010
Measuring Web Page Performance
We’re focused on making Internet Explorer 9 amazingly fast, and we want to help web developers...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/28/2010
JavaScript tests now available on the IE Testing Center
Our commitment to same markup includes script along with HTML, CSS, SVG, and the other markup that...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/28/2010
Enhanced Scripting in IE9: ECMAScript 5 Support and More
Up to this point we have mostly talked about improved JavaScript performance in Internet Explorer 9...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/25/2010
JavaScript: Same Code, and a Standardized Test Suite
Being all in with HTML5 means being committed to enabling developers to use the Same Markup on the...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/25/2010
HTML5, Native: Third IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
As developers experiment and begin the transition from writing today’s websites to building...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/23/2010
Updates to the IE Testing Center
One of the major investments we’re making during the IE9 project is support for more web...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/23/2010
IE’s Compatibility Features for Site Developers
Site developers have been clear that they want interoperability and standards compliance (or...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/16/2010
Rely on Declarative Security Features in the Browser
Cutting edge web applications push the boundaries of the web development model. In the security...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/14/2010
IE Test Center updates
It’s great to see that the web community and browser vendors are getting value out of the test...
Author: ieblog Date: 06/11/2010