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The Internet Explorer 9 Guide for Developers provides a look at the features and improvements in Internet Explorer 9. By using this guide, web developers and designers can take full advantage of these enhancements. Developers can also experience the platform in action using the Internet Explorer Test Drive.
Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.
IE9 is definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction, but I don’t believe it to be a truly modern browser, and let me tell you why.
Back in November, spoon.net removed their sandboxed IE browsers, leaving web developers everywhere rather unsatisfied. As many know, the spoon.net sandboxed browsers were the most reliable browsers, aside from using IE versions in separate VMs. It has now been three months and we’ve seen no movement from Spoon or MSFT. So, it’s time to share these. Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 These are sandboxed exe’s from when spoon.net was Xenocode. You can run them in parallel. They are functionally identical to the true browsers.
The Sixth Platform Preview of IE9 includes support for CSS3 2D Transforms. Similar to the use of “ms” in the Web Timing APIs, the 2D Transforms properties begin with –ms: -ms-transform and –ms-transform-origin. This post explains the purpose of vendor prefixes, how we decide when to use vendor prefixes, and how we recommend developers treat these properties.
IE9, Vendor Prefixes, and Developers – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Simply put, IE9 is the best browser Microsoft has ever released. Has it caught up to Chrome, Firefox and Safari? No. But that doesn’t matter. It’s still light years ahead of any other version of IE. All of us should be praying every day for IE users to upgrade to it as soon as possible.
This index lists all the supported Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attributes by category, and indicates the version of Windows Internet Explorer in which the attributes were first available.
selectivizr is a JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3 pseudo-classes and attribute selectors in Internet Explorer 6-8. Simply include the script in your pages and selectivizr will do the rest.
Selectivizr – CSS3 pseudo-class and attribute selectors for IE 6-8
[..] a case where an IE6-only stylesheet included with a conditional comment blocks the downloads in IE8. Whaaat?
clearfix is a CSS technique used to contain floats with no structural markup.
I was looking for a plug-and-play script that enables CSS3 :nth-of-type and other CSS3 selectors in Internet Explorer. John Ressig’s Sizzle is, well, incomprehensible to me (at least) and the mighty Dean Edwards’ IE7/8 scripts don’t (yet) support the CSS3 selector types I need.
Enable CSS pseudo-element selectors in Internet Explorer with IE-CSS3.js | Stuff and Nonsense
Internet Explorer is a browser developed by Microsoft. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer) is based on the Trident render engine, which does not follow the W3C Web Standards. Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The original version number is shown correcty in the User Agent string. The version number can be found in the window title too. Internet Explorer Collection also includes the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar 1.00.2188.0. This Explorer Bar provides a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites easier. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher when using Windows 2000 or higher.
By now, most front-end web developers have heard of the Standalone Internet Explorers (Wikipedia article). Although these are incredibly useful, they’ve always been hacky at best.
IE AlphaImageLoader, Transparent PNGs & Links It’s long been known that IE6′s support for alpha-blended PNGs is non-existent. An alpha-blended PNG will not blend at all, and you’re left with a horrible grey background where your nice blending and/or transparency should be.
Expression Web SuperPreview for Windows Internet Explorer is a stand-alone visual debugging tool that makes it faster and easier to migrate your sites from IE6 to IE7 or IE8. With SuperPreview, you can ensure that your Web sites work correctly in IE8 while also maintaining compatibility with earlier versions of IE.
Expression Web team blog : Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview
Discover the mission The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out.
Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users upgrade their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience today by installing Pushup on your domain!
Almost exactly eight years ago, Jeffrey Zeldman wrote To Hell With Bad Browsers, in which he implored web developers to start ignoring Netscape 4 because its standard support sucked majorly. Yesterday several large Norwegian sites placed a warning against IE6 on their pages.
Newer breeds of browser such as Firefox and Safari have offered support for PNG images with full alpha channel transparency for a few years. … With IE7 winning masses of users from earlier versions over the last year, full PNG alpha-channel transparency is becoming more of a reality for day-to-day use.
Waaaaah! Waaaaaah! You hear that? That’s IE6 whining about how you should be using an obtuse “filter” attribute, causing all those nice, pretty pngs on your page to go whacky.
The further adventures of Chris Wilson, Internet Explorer guy
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
Welcome to Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
In conjunction with the Beta 1 release of Internet Explorer 8, we are posting a set of tests we are using to validate our interpretation and implementation of the CSS 2.1 specification
Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
testing your websites on Internet Explorer™ has never been so easy. [intel macs only!]
fast previews of web pages in different versions of IE
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Test your web design in different browsers
Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7
Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7 for IT Professionals
No More IE6 Background Flicker
Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7
Details on our CSS changes for IE7
New Headaches? with IE7
All about modern web browsers. Internet Explorer, Mozillas, Opera and so on.