Simon Willison on ie

63 items tagged “ie”

2007

Jash: JavaScript Shell (via) An advanced JavaScript interactive shell bookmarklet that works in IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari.

# 9th December 2007, 12:36 pm / gareth-rushgrove, jash, javascript, ie, firefox, opera, safari, bookmarklet, shell

Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Molly asks the tough questions about IE8—it looks like there should be a lot of IE8 material at MIX08 next year.

# 6th December 2007, 11:47 am / mix, ie, microsoft, ie8, bill-gates, molly-holzschlag

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6. 24ways kicks off again, with the first article introducing super-sleight, an updated script for getting transparent PNGs to work in IE6.

# 1st December 2007, 12:03 am / pngs, ie6, ie, 24-ways, drew-mclellan, javascript

DebugBar. Suggested at BarCamp London 3 as a useful tool for developing with IE; apparently includes a great JavaScript debugger.

# 25th November 2007, 10:32 am / javascript, debugger, debugbar, barcamplondon3, internet-explorer, ie, debugging

IE ActiveX(“htmlfile”) Transport, Part II. Fascinating tricks for working around IE memory leaks using explicit CollectGarbage() calls and setInterval() to an empty function.

# 19th November 2007, 11:48 am / htmlfile, ie, memoryleaks, javascript, comet, activex

Using multiple classes within selectors. Pretty much definitive guide to using multiple classes in a CSS selector, including problems with IE 5 and 6 and one way of addressing them using conditional comments.

# 11th November 2007, 11:07 pm / ie5, ie6, ie, css, classes, russweakley, conditionalcomments

Global namespace pollution in IE. Another reason to avoid JavaScript global variables like the plague: IE creates a bunch of them for you which may well intefere with your own code.

# 10th October 2007, 10:10 am / internet-explorer, ie, javascript, globals

Seeking market share, Microsoft removes WGA anti-piracy check from IE7. Hopefully this will accelerate the rise of IE7 over IE6.

# 5th October 2007, 11:55 pm / ie7, ie, ie6, internet-explorer, wga, browsers

I have another technique [...] that I'll be switching jQuery to. If you attempt to insert into the document.body before the document is fully loaded, an exception is thrown. I take advantage of that to determine when the document is fully loaded.

— John Resig

# 26th September 2007, 12:21 pm / ie, domcontentloaded, jquery, javascript, unobtrusive-javascript

DOMContentLoaded for IE, Safari, everything, without document.write. Stuart has taken Hedger’s recent IE technique, combined it with the others and compressed it in to a short-as-possible code snippet that you can paste in to your scripts without having to include the whole of jQuery/YUI/Dojo/Prototype.

# 26th September 2007, 12:19 pm / ondomready, safari, ie, documentwrite, javascript, stuart-langridge, domscripting, unobtrusive-javascript

IEContentLoaded. An alternative method of detecting DOMContentLoaded on IE; works by polling until the doScroll() method on an unattached element stops throwing errors.

# 24th September 2007, 12:10 pm / domscripting, domcontentloaded, hedger-wang, ie, iecontentloaded, javascript, unobtrusive-javascript

HTTPOnly cookie support in Firefox. Five years after the bug was filed, HTTPOnly cookie support has gone in to the Mozilla 1.8 branch. This is a defence in depth feature that has been in IE for years—it lets you set cookies that aren’t available to JavaScript, and hence can’t be hijacked in the event of an XSS flaw.

# 6th September 2007, 6:27 am / httponly, brad-fitzpatrick, firefox, security, ie, mozilla, javascript

Operation Aborted. Another fantastically obscure IE bug: appending new elements to the HEAD element breaks if a BASE tag is present.

# 16th August 2007, 11:21 am / ie, internet-explorer, bugs, javascript, operationaborted, shauninman

Background Iframe (bgiframe). jQuery plugin that inserts an iframe shim behind an element in IE, allowing the element to be positioned overlapping a select box without the select box showing through.

# 9th August 2007, 2:54 pm / jquery, internet-explorer, javascript, ie, select, brandon-aaron, iframes, plugins

Brendan Eich: New Projects. Exciting new projects from Mozilla. ActionMonkey is joined by IronMonkey (IronPython/IronRuby on Tamarin) and ScreamingMonkey (Tamarin for IE). Upgrading IE’s JavaScript using the Flash Player as a vector is a game-changing idea.

# 26th July 2007, 8:05 pm / ironmonkey, actionmonkey, flash, internet-explorer, ie, brendan-eich, ironpython, ironruby, mozilla, screamingmonkey, tamarin, javascript

Does the idea of redefining the role of the Internet browser appeal to you? Do the terms HTTP, RSS, Microformats, and OpenID, excite you? If so, then this just might be the opportunity for you.

— IE Team Job Ad

# 18th July 2007, 7:43 am / http, rss, openid, microformats, ie, microsoft

Conflicting Absolute Positions. Neat technique, although it uses CSS expressions for IE compatibility so it may break down in IE 5 and 6 when JavaScript is disabled.

# 17th July 2007, 10:44 pm / javascript, ie, css, a-list-apart, rob-swan

Gaping holes exposed in fully-patched IE 7, Firefox (via) Michal Zalewski released a new Firefox 2.0 vulnerability in addition to the IE cookie stealing one.

# 6th June 2007, 9:57 am / firefox, ie, michal-zalewski, security

IE vulnerability allows cookie stealing. Full exploit against the same-domain cookie origin policy, so malicious sites can steal cookies from elsewhere. Avoid using IE until this is patched.

# 6th June 2007, 9:53 am / ie, security, samedomain, cookies

JavaScript Minifier that doesn’t break code (via) Perl re-implementation of Douglas Crockford’s classic JSMin that doesn’t clobber IE’s conditional comments, by Peter Michaux.

# 4th June 2007, 5:44 pm / douglas-crockford, jsmin, james-bennett, internet-explorer, ie, conditionalcomments, perl, pete-michaux, javascript

How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft’s best kept secret: a decent free debugger for Internet Explorer that doesn’t require you to install Microsoft Office.

# 2nd May 2007, 2:06 pm / visualwebdeveloperexpress, ie, debugging, microsoft, javascript

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.

# 20th April 2007, 4:47 pm / microsoft, ie, ie7, testing, virtualization

Avoid IE Brokenness When using Vary and Attachments (via) Django middleware that works around a bug in IE where external applications fail to load content that was served with a Vary header.

# 9th April 2007, 9:41 am / django, ie, middleware, http, python

IE and 2-letter domain-names (via) IE won’t let you set a cookie on XX.YY, where YY is anything other than .pl or .gr. Other browsers have better exception lists.

# 15th February 2007, 12:33 am / dns, ie, cookies, mark-pilgrim

IE JScript Performance Recommendations Part 3. Once again, Microsoft’s official advice is to avoid closures entirely rather than learn how to use them safely. Sigh.

# 9th January 2007, 11:48 am / microsoft, ie, closures, javascript