Check out my blog's Webslice (alt: how to add a Webslice to your blog)

submitted by wisemx 2 months, 25 days ago

msdn.technetweb3.orcsweb.com — (Developer and Platform Group, Microsoft Ireland) So having just installed IE8 beta 2 today I thought I'd have a go at creating a Webslice for my blog...Turns out it's pretty easy, and I was even able to put a version of the Popfly mashup from my last post in my preview (added my blog's logo to make the slice a bit more visually appealing - clearly I missed my vocation as a designer). Since it uses a mashup, it has active content (e.g. javascript) so as a result I needed to use an Alternative Display Source. read more...

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IE8 Beta2 - The RIA Slice (Silverlight WebSlice)

published 2 months, 19 days ago, submitted by wisemx 2 months, 26 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — The Internet Explorer Beta 2 was released yesterday introducing quite some new features about which you already probably read in one of the various like the IE8 Homepage or the announcement on the official IE Blog. However there may be a feature that isn't mentioned too often which is the fact that now with beta2 RIA technologies like Silverlight are also supported in the flyout of a WebSlice. This is something that wasn't available with Beta1. And since it is not as obvious to integrate a Silverlight portion into a WebSlice I will give you a littel walkthrough on how to do that. First of all I want to introduce you to the concept of the different sources from which a WebSlice can retrieve its information. To understand that we first need to differentiate between the two main components of a slice which is the button in the favorites Bar on the one hand. read more...

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IE8 Beta – Pointers for making your website compatible with IE8

submitted by Jemm 3 months, 15 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — "IE8 Beta 1 has been out for several months now and we are closing in on the release of IE8 Beta 2, which has been announced for August 2008 by the IE team. Now is a good time to get started on ensuring site compatibility with this new release." read more...

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Test with multiple IE Rendering Engines

published 5 months, 24 days ago, submitted by dengar007 5 months, 25 days ago

my-debugbar.com — IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. read more...

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Browser Beta Battle IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

published 7 months, 20 days ago, submitted by dengar007 7 months, 20 days ago

frickinsweet.com — A quick comparison of page load times on IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5 read more...

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IE8 from MIX08 to developers

weblogs.asp.net — Although I was not in mix08, I took interest in knowing every detail of how it is going on and downloaded the sessions and keynote as it is available at http://sesssions.visitmix.com , a clean Silverlight site with all the cool videos. This morning , I was watching out the keynote, and found Dean Hachamovitch (General manager,IE) point out some of the cool new features that really dropped my jaws... read more...

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IE8 Promises Better Standards Compliance (and lots more)

cio.com — Developer release lauded as "sweet!" but puts the focus on security, interoperability and better programming features rather than the user experience. read more...

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IE8: Love or Hate?

jondavis.net — Observations of a New Thing. read more...

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