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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Cookbook at MSDN Library

Admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:58:34 +0000

Microsoft has succeeded at the task it set out to do: build a fast, standards-compliant browser with a clean, modern design that integrates well with Windows 7.

You will find echoes of other modern browsers throughout IE9. But this is no clone or copycat, and in fact it has a few features that other browser developers would be wise to copy. IE9 has its own distinct personality and visual style, especially when compared side by side with archrival Google Chrome. Many changes help Internet Explorer comply with broader industry standards, and other changes improve performance and reliability.

No doubt! Internet Explorer 9 RC has proved “Why is Internet Explorer the most popular web browser?” because its impact has affected everyone. As Microsoft reported IE9 Beta was downloaded 23Million times since its public release and IE9 RC momentum is still continuing with more than 2Million downloads in first week.

Microsoft has also added Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Cookbook to MSDN Library which is intended for anyone who develops or maintains Internet Explorer applications.

The Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Cookbook is designed to help you understand changes in Windows Internet Explorer 9 that might impact applications that you developed for earlier versions of Windows Internet Explorer.

It also includes information about changes to features, identifies features that are deprecated or removed, and describes general tools and guidance. New topics will be added to this section as features are modified and as you identify areas where you need more information

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Internet explorer 9 performance demo

Admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:25:48 +0000

Recently channel 9 posted these performance three new test drive demos for IE9 . Since IE9 RC have just released i am expecting it to be a huge hit.

Features that distinct IE9 from other browsers are :

ActiveX Filtering
Tracking Protection
Hardware acceleration
Add-on Performance Advisor
Notification Bar
Search in the address bar
New Tab page
Enhanced tabs
Download Manager
Pinned Sites
Streamlined design

You might also want to check “How to Enable Menu Bar, Favorites Bar, Command Bar and Status Bar in IE9 RC”

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How to Enable Menu Bar, Favorites Bar, Command Bar and Status Bar in IE9 RC

Admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:37:56 +0000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 have just been released to web and if you havent tried it yet , you might surely want to check it out here.Microsoft is really on roll this year and have done wonders in 2010 also. Microsoft did the biggest business as an IT company in 2010. You might to want to check Last 10 years of growth of Microsoft , infographically here.

You might have noticed that by default , Internet Explorer 9 doesnot have Menu Bar, Favorites Bar, Command Bar and Status Bar open. To open that you need to “Right Click” on the empty space on the TABS bar.

You just need to select the Bar you want. That is it. Isnt that simple?

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IE 9 RC released to the web!

Admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:36:26 +0000

Finally the long wait is over. Microsoft just released to the web the long awaited IE 9 RC ! Grab your copy and test drive it yourself!

You may download it here :

IE9 RC (x86) here

IE9 RC (x64) here

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Run Multiple Versions of IE on Windows 7

Admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:22:02 +0000

Microsoft in itself have a history of creating great products with exciting new features every-time. And we can gladly say the Microsoft is Innovative.Now what about Internet Explorer , The web browsing giant. What about trying Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, and 9 simultaneously on a single machine. ? Sounds impossible..

NO!!!! It Isnt . There are fews ways you can do that. But the best one Would be using Windows XP mode in Windows 7.

Windows XP Mode is supported on a Windows PC running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition. (Windows XP Mode is an optional downloaded feature of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions that provides you a pre-installed image of Windows XP SP3 that you run using Windows Virtual PC. A recent update allows Windows XP Mode to run on a CPU without hardware virtualization.)

Sounds Interesting? This linked document provides detailed instructions for setting up a Windows XP Mode virtual machine and then copying it to create two additional XP Mode virtual machines and configuring them to run IE7 and IE8.

Other Options

This page links to white papers describing other solutions for virtualizing Internet Explorer.

This page contains links to Windows Virtual PC virtual machine hard drive images (VHDs) for testing websites with different Internet Explorer versions. These images were recently updated and now expire on May 18, 2011.

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Intertnet Explorer 9 RC expected soon

Admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:36:10 +0000

In this world of fast computing , where Firefox releases a new build every six weeks and chrome updates its versions so regularly , But Internet Explorer 9 from Microsoft have its own story. Internet Explorer 9 discussions are on the web since very long and also it is being much of interest of users attaining the highest ACID value till now among all the latest versions of Firefox , opera , chrome and other browsers.

But now the wait is almost over. Internet explorer team is set to release its IE9 RC very soon. At some interesting discussions on Internet Explorer Facebook fan page , IE team is giving hints on release of IE9 RC very soon. Here’s what discussion Suggests :

Clearly these pics suggests that IE team got some news coming right away..

Internet Explorer 9 build 9.0.8027.6000 (leaked) is fake

Admin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:05:50 +0000

Internet Explorer 9 build 9.0.8027.6000 which was leaked yesterday on the web , have created much hype in the users about the RC and final versions of IE9.But according to Neowin ,

as some of the Microsoft officials them and explained to this leak :-

“Microsoft has not released this Internet Explorer 9 code to the public and we want to caution consumers and businesses that downloading software (including workarounds) from a non-genuine source can pose risks to their environment. “

This means the leaked build is fake , and end user will be responsible for any harm to their system.

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Internet Explorer 9: THE STORY UPTIL NOW…

GauravK — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:37:16 +0000

Microsoft could regain the edge over rivals Google and Mozilla Firefox with its new Web browser due to be launched next year. IE9 is months from release, but already it holds the potential to alter the browser market. Not only could it reinvigorate competition with a host of new rivals, it could help usher in the cloud computing era that some of those rivals are eager to embrace. In that era, the Web transforms from a foundation for static documents and Web sites into a foundation for interactive programs.

With IE9, though, Microsoft is trying to rebuild the browser for the Web that’s to come through new standards such as HTML5 and CSS3, updates to Hypertext Markup Language for describing Web pages and Cascading Style Sheets for formatting.

1^st developer preview of IE9 was launched on March 16, 2010.

The preview is bare bones and doesn’t have much in terms of user interface. Still, it provides a good glimpse into what we can expect from IE9: a complete reboot. It supports HTML5, the new version of the mark-up language that supports more dynamic webpages, video embedding, and geolocation. Microsoft also focused on adhering to web standards. IE9’s Acid3 test — a measure of how well a web browser follows certain web standards — achieves a score of 55/100. Microsoft also shows off its improved compliance with CSS, including rounded corners (if you’ve ever developed for previous version of IE, this is definitely a sore spot). Microsoft also seems intent on being compatible with CSS3, which is currently under development. However, IE9 will not support Windows XP. But it could prove to be a smart move, as it might help push more people to upgrade to Windows 7.

May 5 2010: 2^nd developer preview of IE9 released.

The new preview offers a higher ACID 3 test score, 68 out of 100, and there’s a 117-millisecond improvement in speed according to Webkit.org’s SunSpider benchmark tests. Microsoft didn’t provide exact numbers for context.

Webkit.org's SunSpider Performance Update

Microsoft promised improved performance and graphics support, and the company said it’s been working closely with standards bodies. It submitted 79 new tests to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) responsible for HTML 5 compliance, bringing the total to 183.

The 2^nd release builds on the first Platform Preview, delivering improvements to IE9’s performance, support for standards, and hardware acceleration of HTML5.

Another headline element for IE9 is a new JavaScript engine. When it comes to these engines for running Web-based programs, Chrome has V8, Opera 10.5 has Carakan, Safari has Nitro, and Firefox has the new JaegerMonkey.

Now Internet Explorer has its own new name for a JavaScript Engine: Chakra. One big change in the JavaScript engine is its multicore support. As soon as a Web page is loaded, Chakra assigns a processing core to the task of compiling JavaScript in the background into fast code written in the native language of the computer’s processor.

Microsoft has also updated the test drive site with a new set of developer samples to show what developers can do with GPU-powered HTML5. As part of its commitment to enabling developers to use the Same Markup – the same HTML, CSS, and script – on the web, it has contributed many new tests to the W3C for HTML5, as well as CSS3 Media Queries and DOM. The Developer Tools in this preview include some new features to make finding and fixing markup issues easier.

The IE9 Platform Preview itself is a change, too. Previously, Microsoft delivered a more finished product to the world. Now it’s trying to get feedback at an earlier stage of development. And it’s explicitly seeking comment on a wide range of elements.

The platform preview installs side by side with Internet Explorer 8 so that you can try it without replacing the full IE that comes with Windows. This second release of the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview will install over the first version. There is no need to uninstall the first Preview before installing second. You’ll also find more information on what’s included in this release of the Platform Preview in the Release Notes, including known and resolved issues.

You can download the 2^nd developer preview from here.

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Needs to Fly Like Chrome

Admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:26:22 +0000

There’s no way around it, Microsoft needs to make the next iteration of Internet Explorer, IE9, as fast as Google Chrome, if not even faster. As a general rule, Google Chrome evolves at a much faster pace compared to Internet Explorer, after all, the Mountain View-based search giant has gone through three major versions of its open source browser in a little over a year since v1.0 was initially introduced, and it is laboring to finalize v4.0. It’s taken Microsoft since the end of 2006 to produce Internet Explorer 8 in March 2008, and in this regard, IE’s performance, features, capabilities will always suffer from a handicap compared to rival products, simply because of he pace at which the company delivers major versions of its browser.
The speed at which Google and Mozilla swap major versions of Chrome and Firefox will undoubtedly contribute to the generalized perception that Microsoft is constantly playing catch-up with IE, rather than driving innovation. Fact is that with IE8, the Redmond company focused very little on driving JavaScript performance for the browser. The software giant had its reasons, supported by the argument that JS is only one aspect of a browser’s performance, in some scenarios down right insignificant, and by proof that IE was loading pages on par with… (read more)

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Early Preview Demo

Admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:06:48 +0000

Much to everyone’s surprise, Microsoft shared details about Internet Explorer 9 very early on in the browser’s development process. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager, Internet Explorer, explained that the first IE9-related information offered via official channels was simply the Redmond company joining the discussion of browsers. The software giant choose its Professional Developers Conference 2009, in Los Angeles, to showcase a preview of IE9, but no bits were released as the browser is merely just weeks old.

“The topics that we’re going to talk about pretty much choose themselves, when you look at the conversations that happened throughout IE8,” Hachamovitch noted. More specifically, Microsoft touched three topics, in particular, standards support, performance progress, and the introduction of graphics hardware acceleration.

You will be able to watch the first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 9 via the video embedded at the bottom of this article, courtesy of Microsoft. Obviously the company did not single out the content focused only on IE9, so the video covers the entire PDC 2009 Day 2 Keynote, featuring such Microsoft executives as Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, and Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform. It will be Sinofsky demoing IE9, as along with the Windows project, the Microsoft president is also responsible for the development of the next iteration of the Internet Explorer browser.

As far as I’m concerned, the entire PDC 2009 Day 2 keynote is well-worth watching, but I do realize that you have to dedicate a consistent portion of your time in doing so, as the video goes on for about two and a half hours. So, for those that just want to skip directly to the IE9 demo, just go ahead and jump to minute 40 in the presentation and take it from there (spoiler alert – IE9 has no GUI as of yet).

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