Articles having tag: INTERNET EXPLORER

Make your CHM Help Files show HTML5 and CSS3 content

The HTML Help 1.0 specification aka CHM files, is pretty old. In fact, it's practically ancient as it was introduced in 1997 when Internet Explorer 4 was introduced. Html Help 1.0 is basically a completely HTML based Help system that uses a Help Viewer that...

IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells

By Rick Strahl

Ran into an annoying problem today with IE 9. Slowly updating some older sites with CSS 3 tags and for the most part IE9 does a reasonably decent job of working with the new CSS 3 features. Not all by a long shot but at least some of the more useful oneslike...

Pinify - The Site Pinning Plugin (Formerly ie9ify) - Don Burnett

Have you ever been looking for a quick and simple way to add IE 9 specific features to your website like the new site pinning or jumplist features that make your website look more like an application not a website. Do you use ASP.NET with your site design ?\xa0...

ActiveX Filtering for Developers - IE Blog

When we introduced ActiveX Filtering with the IE9 Release Candidate, we focused on delivering a great user experience that stays out of the way from regular browsing and makes it easy for users to turn off filtering when they want to. At the same time, we want...

Hang Resistance in IE9 - IEBlog

IE9 is the most reliable browser available today in terms of hang resistance. In this post on IE reliability, we show how we engineered IE9's hang resistance so that an unresponsive tab no longer affects the rest of the browser, similar to how IE is resistant...

The IE10 User-Agent String - IEBlog

We recently announced IE10 Platform Preview 1. Aside from some exciting new features, this platform preview also includes the new IE10 user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0) Overall this represents a natural...

Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview Available for Download - IEBlog

IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device. We...

Browser Power Consumption—Leading the Industry with Internet Explorer 9 - IEBlog

Power consumption is an important consideration in building a modern browser and one objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to responsibly lead the industry in power requirements. The more efficiently a browser uses power the longer the...

Preparing Your Site for IE9 - IEBlog

As we have blogged about many times, one of our top goals for IE9 is enabling developers to utilize the same markup and code (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) across all modern browsers. Part of enabling the same markup means changing existing Web platform behavior...

Why IE9 is a Web Designer’s Nightmare - Alexander Dawson

Web professionals have been getting pretty excited lately, and it's no surprise why. The latest spawn of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer 9, has just been released. Many people have been talking about the changes and whether the latest version...