Category: Internet Explorer
Tips: 50 Performance Tricks To Make Your HTML5 Applications And Sites Faster
Now here is something for the developers.
During Microsoft’s BUILD 2012 conference, Jatinder Mann the Program Manager for Internet Explorer, has shared an impressive amount of tips and tricks to speed up your applications and web sites.
The video below will tell you how to:
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Download Internet Explorer 9.0.11
Security patch only.
With the IE10 Release Preview hitting Windows 7 users, it looks like Microsoft has issued an update for its Internet Explorer 9 users too.
As with previous IE9 patches, the following build fixes one security vulnerability (rated critical), which would allow remote code execution and potentially harm the PC. That’s pretty much it as far as the changelog goes.
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Gaming Benchmarks: Internet Explorer 10 vs. Firefox 19 vs. Google Chrome 25
After a sugar coated promo from the Microsoft, it’s time to put their claims into a test and find out, how good or bad Internet Explorer 10 really is when it comes to gaming and HTML5 performance.
Thankfully, a game developer from Scirra.com did a bunch of tests and let me tell you, the results are pretty ugly. Why? Mostdly due to no WebGL support.
Real Life Scenarios
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New IE10 Ad Hits The Web
Turns out to be pretty cool, actually.
Well, here is something warm and fuzzy for a cold autumn evening: a new promotional video from the Microsoft. While it fails to beat the stunning IE9 ad, it’s miles ahead of average web browser ads (with latest example being Opera’s horrible attempt to promote gears extensions). Focusing on the touch experience, the video material bashes iPad and various Android web browsers, claiming that they are not actually “touch optimized” and are somewhat laggy.
Confused? Just hit that play button.
Download Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7
Months and months of waiting have finally paid off as Microsoft has just announced the availability of the Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7.
As stated earlier, this is a preview and not the final build, leaving a bitter taste for some of the Windows 7 users.
And if you are that eager to play with the final version of IE10, there is still a Windows upgrade offer (29 EUR or 39 USD), giving you an instant access to everyone’s bellowed web browser.
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October, 2012 Desktop Market Share: Firefox Slides Below The 20% Mark
Hey, it’s that time of the month again as we kick off the week with the new data from the NetApplications.
Starting with the Internet Explorer, it looks like Microsoft’s market share is slowly edging higher, up from 53.63% to 54.13 (0.5 point increase).
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Internet Explorer 10: The King Of The Web Security
When it comes to the socially engineered malware, it looks like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the only web browser that manages to fight it well.
According to the latest study by NSS Labs, IE10 running on the Windows 8 protected test systems against 99.1% of all the malicious web pages, followed by Google’s Chrome 70.4% mark.
However, when it came to Firefox and Safari, the block rates were incredibly low, 4.2% and 4.3% respectively.
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Yahoo To Ignore The “DNT” Setting
No surprises here.
As Microsoft continues to push its implementation of the Do Not Track feature, more and more companies shove it back.
Following Apache, Yahoo has also issued a statement saying that they will not honor the IE10’s default DNT setting because it doesn’t express user intent.
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A Gesture Of Awesome: Mozilla Delivers A Cake To Microsoft’s Headquarters
Before switching to the fast release cycle, Mozilla was used to receiving blue and delicious cakes from the Microsoft’s IE team, congratulating them on another Firefox release.
However, as the time passed by and release pace picked up, Microsoft has switched to the cupcakes.
Now, according to guys from Mozilla, they have decided to initiate a sweet tradition and delivered a cake to the IE headquarters in Redmond as well.
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EU: Windows RT Restrictions Are Fine
Mozilla responds.
Well, here is an interesting piece of news for you today, earlier this year, Mozilla has complained about the possible restrictions for web browsers running on the Windows RT, which wasn’t left unnoticed by the EU itself.
Now, according to a new report, European Union regulators gave Microsoft a green light and will not continue the investigation.
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