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One of my sessions at TechEd 2010 this year was about advanced standards support in Internet Explorer 8. The DOM Storage API (which used to be part of the HTML5 Spec but are now in their own spec), were introduced to Internet Explorer in version 8, and provide methods for storing data on the client Read More...
First, a disclaimer: The code in the slides for this demo isn’t perfect, in fact, it’s a little messy, but I wanted to get the information that I shared with folks out as quickly as I could, and that means I haven’t cleaned it up, or used any kind of best practices to get it Read More...
I’m about 30 minutes from walking on stage to present my last session here at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans and I wanted to share this presentation early, just in case the session room fills up and folks can’t make it in or for those of you who weren’t able to make it. If you’re Read More...
On Tuesday, I presented my IE9: A Lap Around for Developers session here at TechEd and it went really well, it was a lot of fun, and the “slide” deck that I presented worked well! As it turns out, Joab Jackson, a reporter for the IDG News Service was in the audience and wrote a Read More...
I’m spending part of my memorial day weekend preparing for TechEd next week because I want to try something new and it’s going to require some extra work. Thankfully the weather is pretty crumby here in Seattle this weekend, so it’s not like I’m missing a great weather weekend. Ah well! I guess I get Read More...
Over the last few months at conferences and events, it’s been fun to show off the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Previews! People seem to get pretty excited about it, and understandably so!
The engineering team has been super hard at work making sure that IE9 is going to rock, and to ensure that we’ve got stuff Read More...
In today’s post, I’m going to show an interesting technique to solve a problem and then I will tear it to pieces and explain why it is actually useless. I believe that negative results should also be published so that we can save other people from wasting time trying the same thing. So here goes… A few days ago, a post on Ajaxian proposed a new version of a somewhat old technique to implement querySelectorAll on old versions of IE, using the browser’s native CSS engine. That sounds like a great idea at first, and the hack is quite clever. The idea is to dynamically add a CSS rule to the document that has the selector that you want to evaluate, and an expression that adds the matched elements to a global array. When I read this, it reminded me...
It’s been almost 2 years now since we first shipped the Internet Explorer testing VPC’s so that you could test IE6 and at the time IE7 on the same machine. We understand the need for people to test IE6, IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, and remain committed to shipping the VPC’s! The VPC’s will remain an important component of testing your sites, because they give you a real, and accurate way of seeing how your site interacts with not just rendering, but JavaScript, and other components in the browser. But there’s a new option that will work fantastically for testing layout and rendering of pages, Expression Web SuperPreview. SuperPreview allows you to compare multiple rendering engines side by side, or even super-impose...
Several people have reported seeing errors in their logs that seem to be due to requests such as this: /ScriptResource.axd?d= [lots of junk] & t=ffffffffee24147c The important part here is the HTML-encoded “&” sequence, which stands for “&” of course. If this exact URL is sent to the server, the server won’t know what to do with the escape sequence (URLs are not supposed to be HTML-encoded on the wire) so the parameters won’t get separated as expected, potentially resulting in a server error. This bug in the toolkit is an example of that: http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=13134 Of course, when people see 500 errors popping up in their server logs, they immediately assume the application...
I consider myself a developer more than a designer. In fact, I’m pretty bad at web design. I know what looks nice, and I know what doesn’t work well, but I’m not so good at creating kick butt designs. So, at TechEd last year, I presented “Top 10 Mistakes Made By Web Developers” and it went over extremely well, and I was asked to do it again this year. I did it twice at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, and was asked to do it twice this year as we filled the room the first time! Since it was an Interactive session, it’s not recorded, nor are the slides put online but I offered to share some of the sites I used both as good sites and bad sites and also share the slides! I’ll be posting the demo code from WUX310 later this week! Thanks! Read More...
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