May 27th, 2008 at 11:57am
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Hi All,
Ensuring your website is ready for Internet Explorer 8
Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the […]
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March 26th, 2008 at 05:45am
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s improved support for Web standards in its Internet Explorer 8 browser is laudable — but it could cause big headaches for enterprise IT developers. That’s the opinion of analysts at tech research firm Gartner,which cautions in a new report that IE 8’s default standards mode “will result in pages that don’t display […]
Continue Reading Internet Explorer 8 Could Break Applications, Gartner Warns
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March 14th, 2008 at 07:22am
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There’s been one nagging question about Internet Explorer (IE) 8 about which I can’t stop wondering: Once it finally ships, will it break the Web?
It’s not just because I’m an unabashed Microsoft skeptic that I am puzzling over this. It’s also because right up until Microsoft decided to go whole-hog and — as many developers […]
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March 10th, 2008 at 07:29am
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LAS VEGAS–Although anyone can now download the Internet Explorer 8 browser, Microsoft is gearing this release for Web developers. However, a second beta, slated to arrive this summer, is aimed at a wider audience, Microsoft’s top browser executive told CNET News.com.
“It’s public,” general manager Dean Hachamovitch said of the Beta 1 released Wednesday. […]
Continue Reading Broader release of IE 8 coming this summer
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:05am
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Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:
Activities
WebSlices
Favorites Bar
Automatic Crash Recovery
Improved Phishing Filter
Activities allow users to lookup/send information in a right-click contextual menu, such as retrieving an address map from Windows […]
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March 4th, 2008 at 08:11am
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We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Why Change?
Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is […]
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March 4th, 2008 at 08:11am
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AFTER MUCH grumbling by developers and users, the vole has abruptly volete faced on its strange IE8 decision to make web pages opt in to conforming behaviour, now deciding that it would in fact be a better idea to have the new browser render in full standards mode by default. This means that the new […]
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February 25th, 2008 at 08:45am
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Greetings from the Internet Explorer Team! We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and we will be making it available for the general public to download and test. IE8 Beta 1 is focused on the developer community, with the goal of gaining valuable feedback to improve Internet Explorer 8 during […]
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January 29th, 2008 at 06:40am
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n Dean’s recent Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone post, he highlighted our responsibility to deliver both interoperability (web pages working well across different browsers) and backwards compatibility (web pages working well across different versions of IE). We need to do both, so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages on […]
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January 29th, 2008 at 06:37am
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The IE team has been very hard at work on IE 8 for the past several months and they hit a huge milestone last Friday evening. The IE dev team checked in a bunch of code that included several new features implemented in the core rendering engine that enable IE to pass the ACID 2 […]
Continue Reading IE 8: On the Path to Web Standards Compliance - ACID 2 Test Pass Complete
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