Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Whitepapers (German)

UPDATED RELEASE: Better AJAX Development (German) (Jun 18, 2008)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:13:18 GMT

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers provides a simplified yet powerful programming model for AJAX development that spans browser, Web page, and server interaction. As a result, it is easier for you to build Web pages that have much better end-user experiences, are more functional, and have better performance.

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Whitepapers (German language versions)

Learn more about the new features in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers.

Click here to download all the whitepapers at once: XPS format | PDF format

Introduction

How do I keep my site working with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers?

User-Agent String and Version Vector
Manage Add-Ons
Per-Site ActiveX
Non-Admin ActiveX Controls
Zoom v2
W3C's ARIA support
Loosely-coupled Internet Explorer
Automatic Crash Recovery

How do I make my site light up with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers?

Activities
WebSlices
CSS 2.1 Compliance
Versioning and IE Modes
Printing Improvements
DOM Core Improvements
HTML Improvements and ACID2
Improved Namespace Support
Selectors API
Data URI Support
Versioning and Cross-document Interaction
Improved Protected Mode API Support
Circular Memory Leak Mitigation
Platform Performance Improvements
Developer Tools
Better AJAX Development

CREATED RELEASE: Better AJAX Development (Jun 18, 2008)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:11:53 GMT

(German language version.)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers provides a simplified yet powerful programming model for AJAX development that spans browser, Web page, and server interaction. As a result, it is easier for you to build Web pages that have much better end-user experiences, are more functional, and have better performance.

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Whitepapers (German language versions)

Learn more about the new features in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers.

Click here to download all the whitepapers at once: XPS format | PDF format

Introduction

How do I keep my site working with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers?

User-Agent String and Version Vector
Manage Add-Ons
Per-Site ActiveX
Non-Admin ActiveX Controls
Zoom v2
W3C's ARIA support
Loosely-coupled Internet Explorer
Automatic Crash Recovery

How do I make my site light up with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers?

CREATED RELEASE: All Whitepapers (German) (May 30, 2008)

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:16:43 GMT

(German language version)

Download all of the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers whitepapers at once.

CREATED RELEASE: Developer Tools (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:24:46 GMT

(German language version)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers includes tools that Web developers need to efficiently debug their sites directly in Internet Explorer. Developers can immediately debug a site's HTML, CSS, and JScript from within Internet Explorer 8, rather than switch between Internet Explorer and a separate development environment. In addition, Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools help developers identify why their site does not render or behave as expected. Finally, by making it simple to edit any site, Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools makes experimentation and iterative development easy.

CREATED RELEASE: Platform Performance Improvements (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:23:48 GMT

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers includes several changes that improve the performance of Web sites. These changes affect many Internet Explorer subsystems, including the HTML parser, CSS rule processing, markup-tree manipulation, the JScript parser, the garbage collector, and the runtime.

CREATED RELEASE: Circular Memory Leak Mitigation (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:22:50 GMT

(German language version)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers includes improvements to memory management. These improvements mitigate memory leaks that were previously created by circular references between JScript objects and DOM objects.

CREATED RELEASE: Improved Protected Mode API Support (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:21:48 GMT

(German language version)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers makes it easier for developers to programmatically start, interact, and maintain a Protected-Mode Internet Explorer process. Building off of User Account Control (UAC) integration in Internet Explorer 7, the IWebBrowser2 interface provides new process-creation methods that properly conform to user privilege levels. Developers can now spawn and control Protected-Mode Internet Explorer processes, and avoid confusing workarounds, with a low-cost change to existing code.

CREATED RELEASE: Versioning and Cross-Document Interaction (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:20:48 GMT

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Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers introduces the IE8 standards mode by default—this lets Web designers use the latest rendering features available in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers. In addition to layout changes, IE8 standards mode will also affect the behavior of scripted APIs (DOM).

CREATED RELEASE: Data URI Support (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:19:44 GMT

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Data URIs offer Web developers the opportunity to embed small external resources (such as CSS files or images) directly into a URL on a Web page. The primary use case for data URIs is the encapsulation of a binary file inside of a URL. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers' data URI implementation attempts to balance security with functionality.

CREATED RELEASE: Selectors API (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:18:48 GMT

(German language version)

Selectors are a query language for searching and selecting tags (elements) within a Web page. They are most commonly used in CSS for selecting a group of elements to which certain properties will be applied. In Internet Explorer 7 there is no way of executing a selector independently of CSS. The Selectors API in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers puts the power and flexibility of CSS selectors into the hands of Web developers for rapid element lookups.

CREATED RELEASE: Improved Namespace Support (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:17:44 GMT

(German language version)

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers offers Web developers the opportunity to write standards-compliant HTML-based Web pages that support features (such as SVG, XUL, and MathML) in namespaces, provided that the client has installed appropriate handlers for those namespaces via binary behaviors.

CREATED RELEASE: HTML Improvements and ACID2 (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:16:41 GMT

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HTML uses elements to represent both structure and meaning in a document. To help developers take full advantage of the elements that HTML 4 offers, and to better provide the semantic meaning intended by Web author, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers has upgraded support of the P and OBJECT presentational elements. Through improved support of these HTML elements, Web developers may build more expressive and accessible HTML markup.

CREATED RELEASE: DOM Core Improvements (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:13:09 GMT

(German language version)

During Internet Explorer 6's long tenure as the leading market-share holder, Web developers revealed many bugs and inconsistencies in Internet Explorer's DOM. Today, with the Internet Explorer 8 versioning plan, these bugs and inconsistencies are corrected by default, and those customers who choose to opt out of this behavior may enable IE7 compatibility mode.

CREATED RELEASE: Printing Improvements (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:12:13 GMT

(German language version)

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers includes several print enhancements. These form the basis for a full implementation of CSS 2.1 pagination recommendations, and provide authors with more control and functionality in the print medium.

CREATED RELEASE: Versioning and Internet Explorer Modes (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:11:02 GMT

(German language version)

A fundamental problem discussed during each and every Internet Explorer release is balancing new features and functionality with site compatibility for the existing Web. Versioning and Internet Explorer rendering modes address this issue by allowing Internet Explorer 8 to remain compatible with today's Web content and providing a mechanism to introduce new features and stricter standards compliance.

CREATED RELEASE: CSS 2.1 Compliance (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:10:01 GMT

(German language version)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a simple mechanism for adding styles (such as fonts, colors, spacing, and positioning) to Web documents. The CSS 2.1 Specification has reached W3C Candidate Recommendation status as of July 17, 2007, and most browsers are rapidly approaching full CSS 2.1 implementation. In this vein, Internet Explorer 8 will ship with an additional layout engine that is fully compliant with CSS 2.1 upon final release.

CREATED RELEASE: Automatic Crash Recovery (German) (May 30, 2008)

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:08:34 GMT

(German language version)

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.