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In this post, I will introduce you to some of the most compelling Facebook add-ons for Internet Explorer 8.

The Share with Facebook Accelerator allows you to share any text, link, or page with your Facebook friends with a single click. Read more

We’re always excited to engage with members of the W3C including the developers of other browsers as well as the broader web development community to help shape the direction of emerging Web standards, particularly HTML5.  This includes participating in events like TPAC, which Read more

The RSA 2010 Security Conference is just finishing up here in San Francisco, and I’m struck by how many of the conference sessions and keynotes have warned about the threat that socially engineered malware poses to the security of the Internet. Read more

Last week, the W3C HTML Working Group reached a decision to publish several new working drafts and these are now available. The discussion about what to publish and how to structure the HTML5 specification has taken several months. Read more

Tab isolation has recently become a more popular topic. This post is a quick survey of what tab isolation is, how it works, and what it provides.

What is it?

Tab isolation is a way to improve a browser’s reliability by containing the impact of a crash. Read more

There are many tools in the market that allow you to customize your pages' cascading style sheets (CSS), but there are actually a very few that do the opposite—scan for all the CSS rules in the document and remove those that are not used. Cleaning out the CSS will not only reduce the bandwidth impact, but will also improve the performance of the browser (minimizing the time spent by the CSS engine to parse the style sheets). Read more

This post describes how IE8 determines what Document Mode such as Quirks or Standards Modes to use for rendering websites. This topic is important for site developers and consumers.

It’s related to the Compatibility View List that we recently updated. Read more

This post discusses some of the work we’re doing on the IE team to fulfill our commitment to document our support of web standards. Read more

In addition to our engagement in the SVG Working Group, Doug Schepers, W3C Team Contact for the SVG Working Group, and I are going to be presenting SVG: The Past, Present and F Read more

This post describes a set of best practices for setting the default search provider. Read more

As a web browser, Internet Explorer is a platform for many kinds of add-ons (here are some great Read more

In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group. Microsoft recently joined the SVG Working Group, and other members (Mozilla, Apple and Opera among others) welcomed us warmly. Read more

Today we released a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer.  We’ve released this Cumulative Security Update earlier than originally scheduled based on malicious activities reported on the web. The update is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Most users configure their machines to update automatically; you can find more information on that here. Read more