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• IE8: now with search that doesn't suck

  I installed IE8 Beta 2 and tried CTRL+F this morning and here's what I got: Finally. Quite a lot of nice things in this beta actually... Read More... Posted Aug 27 2008, 07:43 PM by Tales from the Evil Empire Filed under: Internet Explorer

• Web development best practices finally made fun

  Read More... Posted Apr 02 2008, 07:23 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: JavaScript, Internet Explorer, HTML, Safari, Opera, Firefox

• OpenAjax requests comments on browser wishlist

  The OpenAjax Alliance has been working with some of the top Ajax developers on a wishlist that aims at gathering and prioritizing the development features that we need the most from next generation browsers. The process is completely open and Wiki-based, so feel free to contribute. http://www.openajax.org/blogs/wp-trackback.php?p=53 Read More... Posted Apr 01 2008, 01:13 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: JavaScript, Microsoft AJAX Library, Internet Explorer, HTML, OpenAjax, Safari, Opera, Firefox

• IE8 to look forward: the Evil Empire listened

  I've said some time ago that I personally would have preferred if IE8 was in standard mode by default , that it made more sense in the long run at the price of moderate suffering in the short term. Well, it seems like announcing the "meta-tag" user agent switch well before the first public release of the new browser wasn't a random decision. The idea really was to stir up the debate well in advance and make it possible to revert their decision if the community reached a consensus that it was a bad one. And they just did . A few months later, the community almost unanimously rejected the idea more or less strongly and the IE team decided to follow that consensus and make the browser use the potentially breaking standard mode... Posted Mar 03 2008, 08:24 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: Internet Explorer

• IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

  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... Posted Feb 04 2008, 06:58 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share, IE6VPC

• Getting absolute coordinates from a DOM element

  For some reason, there is no standard API to get the pixel coordinates of a DOM element relative to the upper-left corner of the document. APIs only exist to get coordinates relative to the offset parent. Problem is, it's very important to get those coordinates for applications such as drag and drop, or whenever you need to compare coordinates of elements that may be in completely different parts of the document. In Microsoft Ajax, we implemented such a function but it proved to be one of the most difficult problems we had to solve. Not so surprisingly, every single browser has its own coordinate quirks that make it almost impossible to get the right results with just capability detection. This is one of the very rare cases where we reluctantly... Posted Jan 29 2008, 08:51 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: Atlas, Microsoft AJAX Library, Internet Explorer, HTML, Safari, Opera, Firefox

• A honest recap of the IE8 meta-tag controversy

  This will affect all Web developers, which is precisely why the debate is very heated. Anyway, here's a honest recap of the issue. I tend to agree with the author's conclusion although that is obvisouly not the position of Microsoft... http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars/2 Note: at the smallest signs of a flame war, I will close the comments on this post. Ars has a good forum and comment system where your voice is much more likely to be heard and endlessly contradicted. ;) Read More... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:43 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: Microsoft, JavaScript, Internet Explorer, HTML

• Web Tools Or Tools For Web People

  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... Posted Nov 20 2007, 05:22 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, web design, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share, IE AddOns

• IE7 Installation Update

  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... Posted Oct 04 2007, 12:40 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share

• Free Windows Based Hosting

  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... Posted Sep 17 2007, 07:48 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, Internet Explorer, share, hosting