In previous posts, we’ve written about the ways we’re making IE9 much faster, like the new script engine that uses multiple cores, and the new rendering subsystem that uses the dedicated graphics chip found on modern PCs. Another aspect of browser performance involves the external code that IE runs on behalf of users, or add-ons.
Add-ons introduce unique features that
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Online privacy and tracking have been in several news articles and public hearings lately. The recent attention has been on how visiting one site shares information with many sites, and how those sites can then share the information and effectively ‘track’ your activity on the web. The articles certainly show the
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The latest Platform Preview Build includes two great interoperable features for working with the DOM – DOM Traversal and Element Traversal. These features provide web developers with simple, flexible, and fast ways of traversing through a document using the same markup across browsers. These features come in the form of flat enumeration, simplifying the
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TCPView v3.01: TCPView v3.01 addresses a minor drawing bug when running on Windows XP.
Disk2vhd v1.62: This update fixes a bug in the HAL fixup code that could prevent a converted image from booting under Virtual PC.
AdExplorer v1.42: This addresses a regression in v1.41 that prevented AdExplorer from
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The fact that I debugged this application already has helped at least one other organization, so rather than forcing everyone to figure this out on their own, I figured I would blog about it.
I worked with a customer who was using MatLab 7.1 R14 SP3. (For the sake of completeness, I’ll also specify that they were running it on Java
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We released the Windows 7 application compatibility list a while ago, and have been updating it periodically to add new features. We’ve finally done the same for Internet Explorer 8: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2ef7968e-a342-416f-ba78-594e7f075e83
Now, we can’t actually speak to whether something works or not, so for lists like this, we instead list whether the application is supported or not.
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Flipping through my archives, I noticed that I haven’t really spoken a lot about Internet Explorer app compat. Since moving people off of IE6 to IE8 is a pretty big corporate priority right now (trust me, the grass really is greener over here), I figured I’d walk folks through a debugging session I was doing earlier today to give some
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Next week is an internal Microsoft conference for field technical people – TechReady 11. I’m presenting a couple of sessions on migrating from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8, a session on debugging and fixing Win32 applications, and my (now infamous) Not for the Faint of Heart: Hard Core App Compat Debugging session.
The session began with just me. A
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Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
