Internet Explorer

Open Source, Open Standards, Interoperability, and Internet Explorer 8 - ...

By Todd Ogasawara

When I read Bill Hilf's See Change blog entry reflecting on Microsoft's Feb. 21 Open Source Interoperability announcement, I didn't think this direction shift would be felt by the Internet Explorer team. I mean IE7 doesn't leak like Firefox 2 does (on...

[Publish Date: March 03, 2008]

Using HTML5 Features In Windows Internet Explorer 8: Web 2.0 Expo New York ...

By Pete LePage

Internet Explorer 8 has support for many HTML5 features, but do you know what they are or how to use them? We’ll do a quick overview of those features, see how they’re supported and then dive into the code and see real examples of how they work.

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]

Yes, you can now use quite a bit of SVG in the Internet Explorer too. With ...

By Sergey Ilinsky

The Scalable Vector Graphics technology, SVG in short, seems to be experiencing nowadays its second (or third?) birth on the web. The browser vendors are investing heavily into lifting up what they initially prototyped long time before. This is true of Opera, Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but there is no clear indication on the plans to supporting SVG from the major browser vendor - Microsoft. True, Microsoft has recently made a vague statement on its commitment to support the standards and the thrilling web-as-a-platform thing aka HTML5, but in what extent and when? And what shall we do until that time has come, or until the older IE browser park has updated?

[Publish Date: July 30, 2009]

Analysis 2009: Internet Explorer Fades, Firefox Stays the Course, Google ...

By Kurt Cagle

Poor IE. Like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, it seems to have a hard time getting much respect these days. Within Microsoft it has long been the unwanted stepchild - ignored when Microsoft shifted gears towards server-side technologies in...

[Publish Date: January 06, 2009]

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released - InsideRIA

By Andre Charland

Yesterday Microsoft released IE 8 Beta 2. It's likely the most anticipated release of the browser to date, for developers anyway. This is because they've done a lot to support CSS 2.1 and HTML 5 standards, which is everyone agrees is a good thing. It might not be perfect yet but they seem to be making good progress.

[Publish Date: August 27, 2008]

Building Faster Pages in Firefox and Internet Explorer: Velocity - O'Reilly ...

By Eric Lawrence, Mike Connor, Christian Stockwell

Learn how to wring the most performance out of Internet Explorer, taking advantage of caching, compression, and Ajax performance improvements; also how developers can use technologies available in Firefox to make web pages run at top speeds.

[Publish Date: June 23, 2008]

Internet Explorer 8: A Modern Development Platform: Web 2.0 Expo New York ...

By Pete LePage

With Internet Explorer 8 we usher in a new wave of browser innovation from Microsoft—all while maintaining compatibility with the today's web standards. We’ll dive into the new rendering engine within IE8, support for new HTML5 tags, CSS 2.1 compliance, DOM improvements, the developer tool bar, DOM storage, Ajax navigation, activities and Web Slices.

[Publish Date: September 16, 2008]

Microsoft Releases IE8 - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

Microsoft has officially released IE8. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx. It is supposed to be faster, easier and more secure. I'm downloading it at this very moment to test it out.

[Publish Date: March 19, 2009]

What Makes Browsers Performant: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June ...

By Christian Stockwell, Mike Belshe, Chris Blizzard

The competition amongst browsers has been intense over the past year. Come to this session to hear from the Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer teams about what they've done to make their browsers faster than ever before, and what developers can do to take advantage of these features.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Speaker: Christian Stockwell: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 ...

Christian Stockwell is a Program Manager and works every day to improve Internet Explorer performance.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Google Releases Chrome Frame - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

In an interesting move Tuesday, Google released the "Chrome Frame", a plug-in that will allow you to run Google Chrome inside of Internet Explorer. This allows you to take advantage of HTML5 elements (including Canvas), and the V8 JavaScript engine, from within IE.

[Publish Date: September 24, 2009]