News and updates about the latest add-ons, and plug-ins for Internet Explorer, Microsoft's web browser.
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Category: Browsers, IE
, The Ajax Experience
We were happy to have Laurel Reitman, the lead program manager on the IE team, out at the Ajax Experience. There was a lot of good dialog between her and Alex, Brendan, and others about the future of browsers in general and IE in specific. She has written a post on the IEBlog recapping her Read the rest…
Monday, May 15th, 2006
Julien Couvreur has once again made his mark on the Ajax world – first with the release of the widely-used Ajax debugger for Firefox (using Greasemonkey) and now with his latest – a bookmarklet for IE containing a port of the same script. Since I wrote the original XMLHttpRequest Debugging user script for Firefox (screenshot), Read the rest…
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Category: Firefox, IE
, The Ajax Experience
With key people present from Mozilla and the IE team present, today’s Ajax Experience panel is focused mostly on browser issues. A rare opportunity for Ajax developers to talk directly with the people who define our day-to-day constraints. As I write this, it’s thirty minutes after the panel finished and there’s still a decent crowd Read the rest…
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Category: IE, JavaScript
, Programming
, XmlHttpRequest
Last week, we mentioned Eric Pascarello’s “XMLHttpRequest Reuse Dilemma” article. Eric explained that to reuse an XMLHttpRequest object in IE, you must call abort(). In a follow-up, Pavan Keely says you actually don’t need the abort() call. Instead, just make sure the open() call happens before onreadystatechange(), rather than afterwards (as in Eric’s example). The Read the rest…
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Category: IE, JavaScript
, Screencast
, Toolkit
Patrick Fitzgerald posted a nice screencast explaining how he diagnosed and fixed an IE memory leak in his tabifier library. He walks through using the free tool Process Explorer to watch IE’s memory grow with each page refresh. He writes: This screencast discusses how I diagnosed and fixed a memory leak in a JavaScript library. Read the rest…
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Category: IE, JavaScript
, Library
Jorgen Horstink has started to hack away on a W3C Range implementation for Internet Explorer. An example of its usage is: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: <script src="function.prototype.js" type="text/javascript" /> <script src="range.js" type="text/javascript" /> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function () { var sel = new Selection(); var range = new Range(); Read the rest...
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Who needs debuggers and add ons, when you can simply put the following in your IE address bar: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: javascript:'<xmp>'+window.document.body.outerHTML+'</xmp>';
Monday, February 13th, 2006
Category: Browsers, IE
, Interview
The Audible Ajax podcast crew will be interviewing the Microsoft Internet Explorer team in Redmond, WA later this week (for an Audible Ajax podcast episode that we'll release later this month). As the provider of the dominant browser platform, we have a lot of questions that we'd like to ask them. But we're also interested Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Microsoft has put out there IE7 Beta 2 Preview. We should make sure that our XHR code (or libs that we use) make sure to look up the native object first: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // If IE7, Mozilla, Safari, etc: Use native object Read the rest...
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Category: IE
Ah the annoying problems with <select> elements in IE. Nothing drives you nuts like having selects ignoring z-index and the like, and making your apps look ugly. Well, it seems that one good thing in IE 7 is that they are fixing these problems, and moving from using the select boxes via Shell, and into Read the rest...
Friday, December 30th, 2005
As soon as we saw SVG, Ben thought that it would be quite possible to take the VML support that IE has had for a long time, and make a converter that would make a subset of SVG work in IE. Emil Eklund had the same thought, and acted on it. In this case, his Read the rest...
Monday, December 26th, 2005
Category: IE
We have been at a few clients that asked us for Ajax support on IE for Mac. You have to have a bit of a laugh with that bad boy. Unfortunately, some clients require support for this beast, and although "support" means different things at different places... (e.g. degrades so it is readable, vs. same Read the rest...
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Category: Browsers, IE
, JavaScript
, Utility
We announced Drip, the IE Leak Detector back in June. Since then, the project got picked up by Matthias Miller, and his team has released a new version of the tool. The new features of Drip are: Major enhancements include: Drip now supports popup windows. (Note that the "Auto-Refresh" button does not apply to popup Read the rest...
Friday, October 14th, 2005
Category: IE
Microsoft call to action: The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages The IE 7 team is seeing issues with their new browser, and announced a call to action on our IE hacks. Since developers need so many work arounds due to the IE box model breaking, and weird things, we have hacks galore. However, Read the rest...
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
Category: IE, JavaScript
, Utility
At Microsoft PDC, we heard about the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta, which is like the Firefox Web Developer extension that every web developer has in their back pocket. IE Developer Toolbar The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of Read the rest...
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
Category: IE
This is good news from IEBlog: IE 7 implements a native XMLHTTPRequest object for Javascript applications, instead of requiring an ActiveXObject to be created. This also means XMLHTTPRequest will function on machines that have ActiveX disabled. We’ve providing support for International Domain Names we’ve also done some thoughtful work to prevent spoofing of URLs by Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
Hello Everyone,
Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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