our plans for Internet Explorer Platform Previews we said that “developers and people interested in standards and web development can try out new platform functionality and provide early feedback.” We are now getting such on a daily basis and are using it to improve IE9. However, sometimes the impact of the feedback extends beyond just IE9. Here.. more »

Web design is 95% typography ”. So much of the content produced and consumed on the web is text yet designers and users have been confined to a set of compatible fonts available across client operating systems. Escaping this typographical island has involved everything from cross-browser CSS workarounds, , with trade-offs ranging from extra st.. more »

A few weeks ago, we the performance characteristics of our sample. We showed how hardware acceleration benefits real world scenarios such as browsing photos, and how easily web developers can build these types of applications. Recently, we released a new set of . Today we’re going to discuss the concept application (also see the companion Much li.. more »

In case you're one of the 12 people who read our blog and don't also read the , I thought I should mention that the first public Release Candidate of IE7 for Windows XP has been made available today. on the IE blog for details on the changes in this release over the one (mostly in setup and toolbar compatibility). Or go to On the RSS front, we've f.. more »

I am one of the developers on the RSS team, and to complement recent postings on feed security, I would like to talk about one topic that didn’t get as much attention in recent discussions on feed security as perhaps it should have - feed enclosures. Enclosures are files “attached” to feed items, commonly used in and often automatically downlo.. more »

What better way to spend a Friday afternoon (Redmond time, at least), than by filling out a quick 8 question survey on your RSS reading habits, hosted by the MSR Asia Center for Interactive Design? Even if you don't take the survey, the results will be publicly available on Oct 20th (and there's even a results feed to which you can subscribe to g.. more »

Have you wanted to use the Windows RSS Platform from C++? Unlike managed code or script there is no simple way to create header files with the declaration of the IX.. interfaces which are designed for use from C++. Of course the msfeeds.h header file is included in the . If you are hardcore about Windows development you might already have it .. more »

, Greg Reinacker and I did a on the RSS platform, during which he demo'd tool to synchronize the RSS platform state with NewsGator Online. that the sync app, now known by the name of "NewsGator Desktop Sync" has gone into beta, and is available for everyone to download. Desktop Sync is a system tray application that keeps your feeds, folders and .. more »

presentation that sparked a renewed discussion on feed security in the community last month, developed a suite of tests (based on an earlier set by ), and generously made them available quietly to aggregator developers. He has now made the tests I contacted James last month (via email as he requested) and he pointed me to the test suite, so we cou.. more »

With the recent release of the , we talked about how we’re rebuilding the browser to use the power of your whole PC to browse the web, and to unlock a new class of HTML5 applications. One area that about is the potential of HTML5 canvas. Like all of the graphics in IE9, canvas is hardware accelerated through Windows and the GPU. In this blog post we.. more »

Our commitment to same markup includes script along with HTML, CSS, SVG, and the other markup that developers use to build the web. To make same markup real, the community needs a set of official tests to assess how interoperable and standards-compliant different browsers are with the latest version of JavaScript, “ECMAScript Fifth Edition” (fon.. more »

We’re focused on making Internet Explorer 9 amazingly fast, and we want to help web developers make their sites fast as well. Enabling developers to accurately measure the performance of their websites is critical to making the web faster and enabling a new class of HTML5 applications. At , we announced Internet Explorer 9 as the first browser to pr.. more »

Up to this point we have mostly talked about in Internet Explorer 9 but we haven’t said much about any new or changed language features in the engine. Now, with the third Platform Preview, we can tell you about JavaScript feature enhancements which you can As context, the industry standard that defines the JavaScript language is . Prior to last ye.. more »

with HTML5 means being committed to enabling developers to use the Same Markup on the Web, and that includes the same JavaScript code. The Chakra JavaScript engine in the of Internet Explorer 9 includes significantly improved support for the ECMAScript (ECMA-262) standard, including features new to the recently finalized ECMAScript Fifth Edition .. more »

One of the major investments we’re making during the IE9 project is support for more web standards. Web developers all around the world consistently gave us feedback that they wanted to use the same pages with the same markup across browsers. By working closely with the W3C and its members on the newest web standards, we can make that dream a re.. more »

As developers experiment and begin the transition from writing today’s websites to building HTML5 applications, they will test the limits of browsers. For example, the huge difference between and plain HTML5 video support in a browser was clear in the demo we Because some browsers run on many different operating systems, there can be a tendency to.. more »

We've received some reports of users noticing that their feeds subscription stop updating after upgrades. Our investigations show that these tend to occur after upgrades from one pre-release build of Windows Vista to another version. If you're encountering this issue, first make sure that the feed URL is still valid by manually updating the feed .. more »

One question we get asked occasionally is: How do I back up my feed list? Well, it turns out that there is a way to save a feed list in a single file for backup or other purposes. It's called  , and IE7 supports importing and exporting feed lists via OPML. Here is the step-by-step process for backing up your feed list to an OPML file in IE7: The OP.. more »

We’ve recently discussed the performance characteristics of the A GPU-Powered HTML5 Flickr Photo Viewer samples across different browsers. On the Internet Explorer team we use the to measure browser runtime performance. The Windows Performance Tools are among the most accurate performance tools available which is why they’re across the indu.. more »

in feed readers or rather the lack thereof. He links to the list of that continue to request the feed that is gone. One of the entries points at the Windows RSS Platform as an "offender": Windows RSS Platform/1.0 (MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) It's listed with 282 hits. At first I was surprised to see the Windows RSS Platform in that list since we .. more »