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Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 - IEAK8 (CZ)

Karel Florian (KFL) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:31:00 GMT

V tomto screencastu se podíváme na to, jak vytvořit vlastní či upravenou instalaci Internet Exploreru 8 za pomoci nástroje Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 (IEAK8).

Autorem screencastu je Karel Florian.

IEAK 8 screencast demo and PM interview

David Tesar — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:01:00 GMT

Jatinder Mann gives us insight behind the new Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 (IEAK 8) and then shows a screencast/demo explaining the new features. Jatinder is the program manager in charge of all of the great features IT Pros get with IE. IE offers IT Pros controls which no other browsers on the market can match, such as customizing the deployment with IEAK and locking down features and settings with over 1300 group policies. Jatinder gives some context as to when you might use IEAK vs IEM and group policy, why an IT Pro should care about IEAK, and explains the new configuration options for IEAK 8.

Download or get more info on IEAK 8

Pete LePage and IE 8 Compatibility Interview @TechEd Barcelona

Matt Hester — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:10:00 GMT

I caught up with Pete LePage again, this in time in Barcelona. More importantly I caught up with him on my own turf at TechEd among all the wonderful IT Pros. Now he was the stranger in the strange land. We had a great conversation around how to think about Internet Explorer 8 and compatibility. BTW, yes that really is the Mediterranean Ocean behind us.

One of concepts we discussed in the interview was the x-ua compatible tag you can put in the HTTP Response Headers of your web servers. Look for a quick screencast to show how this is done in the near future. This metatag would affect all of the websites on the server:

"X-UA-Compatible value="IE=EmulateIE7"

Additionally the web developer can add a similar meta tag to the site or page. The fun question is what meta tag wins, if there is a conflict between the server, site, page or user setting? The answer is simple the page setting will always win in the case of a conflict.

Resources:

Great article on IE 8 and compatibility: Compatibility and Internet Explorer 8
Additional information for adding custom HTTP response headers on various versions of IIS and Apache servers:
IIS7.0, IIS6.0, Apache 2.2, Apache 2.0, Apache 1.3
Compatibly center: Internet Explorer Compatibility Center
Check out the first interview with Pete here:
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Pete-LePage-Talking-IE-8-Tools--PDC/

Pete LePage Talking IE 8 Tools @ PDC

Matt Hester — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:02:00 GMT

During PDC I got a chance to chat with Pete LePage, a PM on the IE 8 team to talk about some of the improvements in the developer tool set in Internet Explorer 8. If you have not seen them yet, press F12 while using IE 8 or even take a look at the view source from the page menu.

Easy Steps to Get your Web Site to Support IE8

Neil Hutson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:59:00 GMT

Any users accessing your site using the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser ( currently in Beta ) will typically not get a very good rendering experience if your site was designed for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) because of new standards that IE8 is supporting around HTML and CSS formats. There are two ways to resolve this.

1) The longer term option is to re-write your web application to render IE8 correctly - However this would not be my first choice.

2) The best ( to choose first off ) is to instruct any IE8 browsers to browse your site in IE7 emulation mode so that the current rendering is maintained. How do you do this? Simple

On a Per-site basis, site owners and administrators can include the following custom HTTP header to force Internet Explorer 8 to render Web pages like Internet Explorer 7:

X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

To add a custom HTTP response header at the Web site level in Internet Information Services 7 on a Windows Server 2008-based computer, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
Under Connections, double-click the server that you want, and then double-click Sites.
Click the Web site where you want to add the custom HTTP response header.
Under Web site name Home, double-click HTTP Response Headers in the IIS section.
Note In this step, Web site name is the name of the Web site.
Under Actions, click Add.
In the Name box, type X-UA-Compatible.
In the Value box, type IE=EmulateIE7.
Click OK.

You can also modify the IIS7 configuration file with the following details ( or you can check the config after the changes made above )

<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>

<add name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=EmulateIE7" />

</customHeaders>

</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>

To add a custom HTTP response header at the Web site level in Internet Information Services 6 and earlier versions, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type inetmgr.exe, and then click OK.
Expand the server that you want, and then expand Web Sites.
Right-click the Web site that you want, and then click Properties.
Under Custom HTTP headers, click Add.
In the Custom header name box, type X-UA-Compatible.
In the Custom header value box, type IE=EmulateIE7.
Click OK two times.

Per-page basis

Site owners and administrators can include the following special HTML tag after the <Head> tag on the page:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

The following example shows use of this Internet Explorer 7 compatibility mode tag on a per-page basis:

<html> <head> <!-- Use IE7 mode --> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> <title>My Web Page</title> </head> <body> <p>Content goes here.</p> </body> </html>

For more information about the EmulateIE7 tag, visit the IEBlog Web site:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx

To download IE8 for testing, you can go to the following location

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx

TechNet Radio: What’s new in IE8

Eric Ostrowski — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:06:00 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Internet Explorer Program Manager Jane Maliouta answers questions about what’s new in IE8 for consumers, businesses and web developers.

ScreenCast: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 part 1: Interop Goodies

Matt Hester — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:52:00 GMT

In the screencast I show how IE8 is going to help with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 and browser interoperability. IE 8 will render in standards mode but with this meta tag:

 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

developers can render the page in compatibility mode. For a better Code Sample take a look here: Defining Document Compatibility

While IE 8 is being designed to work with CSS 21, we are also forward looking to CSS 3.0 and some of the most popular tools. To learn more about compliance check out the white papers here: CSS 2.1 Compliance

In addition the CSS demos, I show some exciting HTML 5 features, specifically HTML 5's support for hash functionality, which allows some interesting interaction inside your AJAX applications. Also I show some of the support for connection events as well as HTML 5's DOM storage capabilities. These allow you to really have a near offline experience with IE. To learn more about the improvement with IE 5 and AJAX development take a look here:
IE 8 Better AJAX Development

Also if your looking to download beta take a look here:

Please comment and let me know what you think!

ScreenCast: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 part 2: Activities and Webslices!

Matt Hester — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:41:00 GMT

Activities allow you to avoid having to open several browsers to possible get to information you need. I like to think of them as "create your own URL". So how does it work, by simply selecting text you then get a "smart tag" style icon that allows to take action within context of the selected text. For example if you select an address one of your choices will be able to use a map. Activities are add-ins that do have to be installed for a list of activities that already exist take a look here: Add Activity Providers to Internet Explorer 8

Webslices are probably one of my favorite features inside of IE 8 and the first time I saw them in action, I was wowed. Webslices allow you to subscribe to content directly within a web page. Now the web pages do have to be coded on the web site to make this happen, to get started with this take a look here:
How do I make my site 'light up' with Internet Explorer 8 webslices

To view part 1 click here: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 part 1: Interop Goodies

Also if your looking to download beta take a look here:

Please comment and let me know what you think!