Internet Explorer 8

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 test! This is…

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The web developer community is curious to know what’s new for JScript in IE8. In this show,  the JScript Evangelist, Janakiram MSV interviews the program managers who own the key JScript features. The JScript team is based out of IDC in Hyderabad. We own the scripting engine for IE8 &…

IE 8 Beta 2 is now available! John Hrvatin, Program Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Tools sits down with me to discuss at a high level the new additions to IE 8's developer tools (aka Dev Tools). These include JavaScript performance profiling, CSS profiling and formatting exploration. …

When you navigate your browser to website A is website A the only site you're visiting? IE 8 Beta 2 is almost out of the oven. Given this, we of course want to find out all about it straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Enter General Manager of Team Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch,…

IE team General Manager Dean Hachamovitch and IE Test Manager Jason Upton sit down with me to discuss the significance of today's IE 8 RC1 release. What did the IE team learn from the Beta 2 release? What changes did they make in response to customer feedback? Will the IE team still…

Internet Explorer, like all applications released by Microsoft and other software companies, undergoes immense amounts of rigorous testing before being released in the wild. Given the nature of what IE does (compute, calculate, and render random HTML strings into a coherent pixel mesh that…

Besides the fact that Max was hopped up on meds from having his wisdom teeth pulled, this was a very exciting week in Microsoft Town. Here's a taste: Craig Mundie talks about Obama ---click here for the FULL interview with Craig Mundie--- Swine Flu Attacks! Tech Ed on The Edge Easy…

Jonathan Gabbai, Global Innovations Manager in Ebay, and Raj Ramabadran, Microsoft Platform Strategy Advisor, join me at MIX to talk about the new features of Ebay.com designed for Internet Explorer 8. In the first part of the interview Jonathan will show us the Ebay Web Slices, Accelerator…

As software evolves so to does the need for newer software to remain compatible with older versions. In the case of IE the notion of backwards compatibility is quite daunting and of supreme importance to the IE team. Consider the millions of web pages that were written to run successfully in older…