web standards

Today we’re announcing support for automated testing of Microsoft Edge through the W3C WebDriver standard. To use WebDriver with Microsoft Edge, you need the Link Removed on a Windows Insiders build of 10240 or newer. Once that’s installed, you can try out WebDriver for yourself! WebDriver is...

Over the past year the Microsoft Edge team has been hard at work on a new browser engine that will be better than ever at correctly, quickly, and reliably rendering the Web. As a user, your favorite web sites will just work, and as a web developer, you will find that Microsoft Edge should just...

Windows 10 Insider builds recently introduced support for srcset, our first step on the path to fully supporting the picture element for responsive images. In this post we’d like to share more about our initial implementation of srcset in Windows 10 and our strategy for bringing more components...

With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows. We have designed Microsoft Edge to defend users from increasingly sophisticated and prevalent attacks. This post covers some of the advanced...

We recently posted “A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine”, an in-depth look at the background and motivation behind building a new rendering engine to power Microsoft Edge. A key factor described was the ability to make a break from legacy Internet...

As security professionals, we are trained to think in worst-case scenarios. We run through the land of the theoretical, chasing “what if” scenarios as though they are lightning bugs to be gathered and stashed in a glass jar. Most of time, this type of thinking is absolutely the correct thing...

Microsoft have released IE11 for Windows 7: Download: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie-11-worldwide-languages

The Windows 8 Engineering Team blog has a great blog on IE10 and show what's new in browsing whilst in a Metro environment: Definitely worth a read..... Link Removed

Matt Kotsenas, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, demonstrates the importance of quality in a browser's graphics system and shows how developers can use HTML5 Canvas and composition techniques to create graphically rich experiences. This sample and the second IE10 Platform Preview are...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back to talk about the week's top news, including: [Link Removed] Microsoft Research - Link Removed available and the Link Removed are available, as are the Link Removed [Link Removed] NuGet.org - NuGet 1.4 Released - includes finer grain control...

News Analysis: Microsoft is already touting Internet Explorer 10, even though that browser’s predecessor has been around for just weeks. Even so, if Microsoft is sketching out the design for a rapid browser update, then it’s time to discuss what Internet Explorer 10 should offer. Although...

Just when you were expecting to hear more about IE9 on this opening day of Mix '11, and today we'll be talking about the IE10 Platform Preview. IE10 builds on IE9 with support for even more standards like CSS3 gradients, multi-column, and grid layouts. In this video Rob Mauceri walks us through...

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) supports two separate technologies for restricting access to information related to a user's online activity. One of the privacy features was recently prompted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Both technologies involve the way...

Google's decision to transition its applications to Web standards offers telling insight into the HTML5 standardization process Google technologies are known for their extended beta test periods -- so much so that when the search giant actually ships a finished product it's front page news. But...

It's always fun to talk to Dean Hachamovitch about IE. This conversation is no exception except for how early we filmed and that Dean and Ryan Gavin are joined, since it took place at that magical hour between exiting night and breaking day, by the team unicorn named Frank, who doesn't like to...

Neowin member, blogger and Microsoft Connect tester "tuxplorer" has posted an extensive list of features that have been removed from the transition from IE8 to 9 on his blog, and despite reporting these issues to Microsoft, he felt that his concerns weren't addressed. IE9 has received praise...

Not too long ago, I posted a thread in the Coffeehouse asking for your IE9 questions for Dean Hachamovitch, VP of Engineering for Internet Explorer. Thank you for asking such great questions, Niners! We didn't have time cover all of them, but we did manage to get through several of them (and...

Rob Mauceri, Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer, shows off the HTML5 Galactic test drive sample, available on the Link Removed. Link Removed More...

According to results released by the Worldwide Web Consortium, Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer 9 Beta ranks the highest when it comes to HTML5 conformance. Link Removed due to 404 Error Seven features have been tested, as shown above. The full breakdown Link Removed - Invalid URL. Do note...

The following link will only work for browsers that support HTML5 and Flash. Currently, the only browser not in beta that supports this is Google Chrome. The test will not work with some browsers. What is HTML5? Hypertext Markup Language 5 is the next version of the HTML (web standard). Some...