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Here's the slide deck from my session at Web 2.0 Expo last week. I cut out a few things in order to get it to fit in the 50 minute slot they allotted me, so it's kind of short, if you're looking for full details, check out the deck from Fronteers as it has a bit more detail on things. I did add a bit about search providers to this deck, so there is a little new stuff there. It was great to be in NYC for the week, and I met a lot of great people. It was exciting to see all the people who want to see IE8 and hear their excitement about standards and the new features! I can't wait to deliver! Read More...

Here's the deck that I presented today at Fronteers 2008. Seems like people got something out of it, and was told by a couple of people that "wow, I have nothing to complain about any more"! Love it! Read More...

<pokes head above blog wall> <moves some cob webs aside> hello! i'm back. :) a couple of months ago, I did an interview with Craig shoemaker about one of the session I did at TechEd this year, and he posted the interview a few weeks ago. I figured this would be a good place to start my blogging again! Top Web Design Mistakes http://getpixel8ed.com/shows/mistakes Pete LePage is Product Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Division and he doesn’t want your web site to stink. Sharing from his talk given at TechEd 2008, Pete highlights 10 common web design mistakes and tells you how you can bypass the same blunders. Pete also tells us how future features of Internet Explorer will help your visitors leave your site with a smile...

Apologies for going dark the last little while, I'm going to do my best to change that again. Lots of stuff going on here that I'm really excited about, but before I get into that, I want to do an unscientific survey. We currently offer developers and designers the following VPC images: XP + SP2 with IE6 XP + SP2 with IE7 We're looking at the next batch now, and I'm curious, if we were to add one more, which of the following would you prefer? Vista with IE7 Vista + SP1 with IE7 Also, if you're a Mac user, and want to see either VPC images compressed with ZIP, or Parallels users, a comment would be appreciated. No promises on these, I just want to understand what is more important to you. Thanks! PEte Read More...

Two quick notes that I wanted to get out there. IE8.  Yep, it officially has a name now.  Check out the post from Dean on the IE blog. I've uploaded the new VPC images and am just waiting for them to propagate through the severs, now.  I expect it to be live within the next 24 hours. PEte Read More...

Just a quick note to say that the IE6 and IE7 VPC images are being updated as we speak, and I suspect the new versions should be online Monday or Tuesday. Read More...

A couple of days ago, I got an email from the guys at DebugBar letting me know that they had just released their Beta1 for Debug Bar 5.0. They've got a pretty good tool bar for doing web design and web development in IE. Their DebugBar adds features like a DOM Inspector, an HTTP Inspector, a JavaScript Console and Inspector, an HTML Validator among other things. It's free for personal use, and the commercial license is easy to obtain. There are a couple of other tools worth pointing out as well Fiddler2 a web debugging proxy written by one of the PM's on the IE team IE Developer Tool Bar the Microsoft IE Developer Toolbar. There's lots of info on it here IE6 and IE7 Virtual PC images Visual Web Developer Express 2008 has great JavaScript debugging...

Confession time, I'm an online shopping addict. Amazon and I get along really well. Well, Amazon and my bank account don't get along well, but Amazon and I do. Along with many other online stores, I tend to do a good bit of shopping online. This morning, I got a tracking notification for a package that is being shipped to me, and it occurred to me this morning that you could easily create a search provider for UPS (or most other shippers for that matter) and have it appear in your IE7 Inline Search box really easily. The easiest way to add it is to go to Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer 7 and in the "Create Your Own" box, add http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?sort_by=status&error_carried=true&tracknums_displayed...

It's crazy to me that I've been in this new role for just over a year now, in fact, it's just about 13 months. In that time, I've seen IE7 ship, taken on new products like Expression Web and Visual Web Developer, met so many fantastic developers and designers and have had the awesome opportunity to travel all over the place for work. Today, we updated the installation experience to make IE7 available to as many Windows users as possible. As of today, IE7 will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation, and will be available to all Windows XP users. If you're not already running IE7, you can get it from the Internet Explorer home page on Microsoft.com. We've made a few other small tweaks to the UI, including enabling the menu bar...

Whew, I'm back from my 17 day cruise in the Mediterranian and while it's good to be back, I sure missed a lot! I'm still trying to get things sorted, but in the mean time I figured I'd share this little juicy bit with you. Verio is offering free Windows based hosting for anyone who wants it! They don't require a credit card, and the offer is good through January 2010, so you get a good couple of years out of this. The offer is not available online (huh?), so you have to call and deal with a human. And since it's a 1-800 number, that'll make it a bit harder for those outside the USA. In any event, if you want to take advantage of it, call Verio at 1.800.932.7483! And feel free to pass along Read More...