Internetový prohlížeč Internet Explorer snížil ve velkých evropských ekonomikách včetně Británie a Francie svůj podíl na trhu, protože jeho výrobce Microsoft Evropanům usnadnil přístup ke konkurenčním prohlížečům.

Helsinky - Internetový prohlížeč Internet Explorer přišel ve velkých evropských ekonomikách včetně Británie a Francie o tržní podíl, protože jeho výrobce Microsoft Evropanům usnadnil přístup ke konkurenčním prohlížečům. Oznámila to dnes agentura Statcounter sledující internetové statistiky. Změnu si vynutil Brusel.

Microsoft zveřejnil testovací demo nového jádra Internet Explorer 9. Na webu se rozpoutala nová šuškanda, Google prý plánuje internetový televizor. Sledujte nedělní Týden Živě.

MojoKid writes "As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9's hardware-acceleration possible probably aren't compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving a straight answer to the question of XP support but has since admitted that the new browser won't be XP-compatible when it launches. This has created a small tempest of protest from those users still using XP, but this is less of an arbitrary decision than some appear to think. It's literally impossible to port Windows Vista/Win 7-style hardware acceleration backwards to XP. Microsoft would have to either develop a workaround from scratch or create a CPU-driven 'software mode.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Internet Explorer 9 bude možná přelomový, jeho hardwarově akcelerované jádro totiž chce svým výkonem konečně dohnat konkurenci. Sledujte sobotní Zprávy Živě dnes opět s Riou.

Earlier this week, we published a number of new tests for web standards on our IE Test Center page, together with a harness to run them automatically in your browser as well as cross-browser pass rate statistics for these new tests. We quickly received web community feedback that the pass rate data in the first table was prone to misinterpretation. What the Test Center Pass Rates Include: The pass rates on the site are specific to only the 104 new test cases we just submitted to the W3C in conjunction with the first IE9 Platform Preview. As part of our regular involvement with the Working Groups across a number of W3C standards, we have identified a number of interoperability issues that are not yet covered by the standards body's existing test suite.  We should note that the test results are only for the Windows versions of all the browsers in the test results table. Pass Rates and Vendor-specific Feature Implementations These tests were written and submitted as standard test cases, not IE9 Platform Preview demo pages.  Thus, the cases don’t include any vendor-specific prefixes. By contrast, our IE9 Test Drive samples include extra code to support the vendor-specific versions of certain features (e.g. -moz-border-radius for Mozilla’s implementation of CSS3’s border-radius).  Standards test cases do not and cannot include proprietary properties, methods, or markup. In the case of border-radius, Opera 10.50 and recent Google Chrome builds support the un-prefix

Now that Internet Explorer 9 has been let out its cage, we all know a great deal more about Microsoft's position towards the video codec situation with the HTML5 video tag. Microsoft has chosen for H264, a codec it already includes in Windows by default anyway. This means that apart from Firefox and Opera, every other major browser will support H264. Some are seeing this as a reason for Mozilla to give in to their ideals and include support for H264 as well - I say: Mozilla, stick to your ideals. The last people you should be listening to in matters like this are web developers. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...

Na vývojářské konferenci MIX10 se Microsoft pochlubil technologickými novinkami v připravovaném Internet Exploreru 9, tedy podporou novějších webových standardů a technologií nebo větším využitím potenciálu grafických karet při vykreslování stránek. Vše ale zastínila zpráva, že Internet Explorer 9 nebude pravděpodobně podporovat Windows XP.

As part of our commitment to standards and interoperability, we are excited to provide initial support for the W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) Specification in the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview. The second edition of the SVG spec contains updates to the W3C-Recommended first edition SVG 1.1 specification. We expect SVG, supported by good user and developer experiences, to become an integral part of the web. SVG has many advantages over raster images. With our hardware-accelerated graphics, the time is ripe for a rich and interactive graphics-driven web. SVG enables powerful new web applications. The format makes use of specific XML tags to generate a vector-based image. This makes SVG more easily read and edited by hand than other graphic formats. And because an SVG file is composed entirely of markup, text within the vector image is searchable. Moreover, SVG benefits from the richness of having a DOM. Images are scriptable graphic objects, enabling much more powerful web applications. It’s possible to create dynamically generated images without requiring server-side scripting or browser plug-ins. SVG offers many distinct advantages over other formats. SVG images scale up with little increase in file size and with no loss of fidelity, making it ideal for use in smaller images and icons. SVG is also a fantastic format for images with larger dimensions. Maps, charts, and diagrams are examples. Small labels and detailed borders remain intact even

Internet Explorer 9 ešte nevyšiel, no už drží zaujímavý primát. Ide o prvý známejší internetový prehliadač, ktorý dáva zbohom Windows XP.

The last five years have seen a remarkable series of advances in use of JavaScript on the Web. JavaScript has gone from a language for adding interactivity to a key driver for innovation on the Web. A new generation of applications such as Gmail and Office Web Applications use thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of lines of JavaScript to deliver functionality and complexity similar to traditional desktop applications. With the advent of AJAX and script libraries, nearly every new site today makes use of JavaScript. These changes have also pushed browsers and script engines to evolve rapidly to keep up with user and developer needs to have fast, responsive applications and sites. The IE9 Platform Preview includes the first release of our new JavaScript engine, codenamed Chakra, which fundamentally changes the performance characteristics of JavaScript inside Internet Explorer 9. Chakra includes a new JavaScript compiler that compiles JavaScript source code into high-quality native machine code, a new interpreter for executing script on traditional web pages, and improvements to the JavaScript runtime and libraries. In this post, we look at the engine we’re building in IE9, and our approach to script performance. A Look Back at IE8 IE8, like other versions of IE before it, included a script interpreter for running JavaScript. Pure interpreters are usually adequate for traditional web pages with limited amounts of script, and we did a lot of work to improve performance of these

The Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview build marks an important milestone in the development of the next version of Internet Explorer.  A significant part of the platform preview is focused on new or proposed World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web standards.  The goal of industry standards is actually “interoperability.”  For HD television standards, that means that multiple TVs can render the same rich content in a consistent way.  In the web case, that means the same HTML, script, and formatting markup work the same across different browsers. Eliminating the need for different code paths for different browsers benefits everyone, and creates more opportunity for developers to innovate on great web content. Developers have said they want to use the same markup across all modern browsers.  Each proposed standard needs a comprehensive test suite to make this happen.  The test suite helps resolve ambiguities in the specification by testing any implementation (aka browser) built on that specification.  The test suites also need to thoroughly exercise everything in the specification and not just test a handful of things sampled from various parts of the spec.  During the IE8 project we submitted 7201 test cases to the W3C’s CSS 2.1 Working Group in an effort to help the industry develop a comprehensive test of the CSS 2.1 specification.  It was exciting to see other companies join in and provide additional cases as well.  A

Last month we published interoperability information for Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 focused on CSS and HTML4.01.  Today we publish another set of documentation covering: Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 (spec link) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core (spec link) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events (spec link) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML (spec link) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style (spec link) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Views (spec link) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core (spec link) Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) (spec link) PICS Label Distribution Label Syntax and Communication Protocols (spec link) PICS Rules (spec link) PICS Rating Services and Systems (spec link) Portable Network Graphics (PNG) (spec link) Ruby Annotation (spec link) Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition) (spec link) XML Namespaces (spec link) XML Path Language (XPath) (spec link) XSL Transformations (XSLT) (spec link) ISO 10918-1 Image Compression and Encoding (JPEG) (spec link) As before, these are drafts, and in the future we’ll talk about how we engineered these documents and will keep them up-to-date. Thanks!John HrvatinLead Program Manager, Internet Explorer

Will it SMIL? Yesnomaybe “HTML5 will enable a new class of applications,” says Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's Internet Explorer general manager, speaking to the press at the company's Mix10 conference in Las Vegas.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

The cost of GPUness Updated Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 9 will not support Windows XP.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

Zur Entwicklerkonferenz MIX10 in Las Vegas hat Microsoft eine "Platform Preview" seines nächsten Browsers Internet Explorer (IE) 9 veröffentlicht.

Připravovaný internetový prohlížeč Internet Explorer 9 nebude možné spustit na operačním systému Windows XP. Microsoft o tom informoval na vývojářské konferenci MIX 2010 v americkém Las Vegas. Největší výrobce softwaru na světě tak postupně opouští od podpory starého systému a snaží se využívat ...

Getting specific feedback directly from developers about their experiences with the platform is super important to us. It’s a critical part of how we optimize for real world performance and real world code patterns. This post is about the changes we’re making to our feedback programs in support of broadening and strengthening that feedback loop. Feedback about Feedback Your feedback about how we managed developer feedback over the last several releases guided the changes we’re making with IE9. One of our commitments is to look at every single piece of feedback that we receive. The sheer volume of feedback from IE7 drove much of the design of the IE8 Beta Feedback process. For IE8, we limited the number of people who could file bugs and put no limits on who could vote on bugs. Many of the comments on that process were clear. At the same time, history has shown that users will often submit un-actionable feedback (registration required), large volumes of which significantly reduce our ability to react to high quality feedback (registration required). Some developers asked that we change the tool we use to accept bugs, noting things like the fact that the status and resolution information communicated isn’t always helpful. Below you can see some of the changes we made as a result of this feedback. The specifics of our programs and tools are at the bottom of this blog. Here are the areas where we’re improving: We want to hear to hear from the entire developer community,

Today we’re excited to release the first ever Internet Explorer Platform Preview. The Platform Preview provides developers an early look at some of the features coming to Internet Explorer, enabling them to try out the new capabilities of the platform. Why When we released IE8, we said that our next steps started with listening to your feedback. A major part of what we heard, including comments to that same post, was that developers wanted more builds, more often. At the same time, given the high expectations of our users and the breadth of impact of changes we make to our platform, we need to carefully balance the quality of what we release with the frequency of releases. With the Platform Preview we want to strike a balance that provides developers an early and reliable hands-on experience with key parts of IE. With this Platform Preview, developers and people interested in standards and web development can try out new platform functionality and provide early feedback. What It Is The Internet Explorer Platform Preview is a light-weight frame around the core IE platform which includes the rendering and layout, object model, parsing, and script engines. It’s a way to try out the platform, and the experience improvements we’re making to performance, standards support and interoperability, enabling “the same markup” to work. We designed the Platform Preview to be installed, side by side with IE8. The Platform Preview is not a replacement for your daily browser; for example, the

suraj.sun sends this excerpt from CNET on Microsoft's preview of IE9 in Las Vegas just now. "At its Mix 10 conference Tuesday, Microsoft gave programmers, Web developers, and the world at large a taste of things to come with its Web browser. Specifically, Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, a prototype designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the Web as it exists today and, as important, to add support for new Web technologies that are coming right now. Coming in the new version is support for new Web standards including plug-in-free video; better performance with graphics, text, and JavaSript by taking advantage of modern computing hardware. One big change in the JavaScript engine Hachamovitch is proud of is its multicore support. As soon as a Web page is loaded, Chakra assigns a processing core to the task of compiling JavaScript in the background into fast code written in the native language of the computer's processor." Microsoft didn't say what codec they were using for the HTML5 video demo, but the Technologizer says it's H.264. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Microsoft releases first platform preview for Windows Internet Explorer 9, highlights commitments to jQuery and OData.

As predicted, more Microsoft news from MIX10, and this is some big stuff: Internet Explorer 9. As we all know, Microsoft really let Internet Explorer rot away, allowing competitors to make much better browsers with better standards compliance and performance. With IE9, Microsoft is aiming to not just close that gap - but to overtake the competition. Update: Ars has an in-depth look at the platform preview.

Since MIX10 is still under way, we're going to have quite a few Microsoft items this week, with Windows Phone 7 Series and Internet Explorer 9 being the main points of focus. We've been speculating a while now about if and how Microsoft would support multitasking on their upcoming mobile operating system reboot, and now we finally have answers: no, it won't do multitasking - at least, not right away.

Browser preview powers web standards with GPU Microsoft is focusing on performance and HTML 5 standards support in Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its web browser.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

When we started looking deeply at HTML5, we saw that it will enable a new class of applications. These applications will stress the browser runtime and underlying hardware in ways today’s websites don’t. We quickly realized that doing HTML5 right – our intent from the start – is more about designing our browser’s subsystems around what these new applications will need than it is about a particular set of features. From the beginning, we approached IE9 with the goal of enabling professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top of modern hardware through Windows. At the MIX conference today, we demonstrated how the standard web patterns that developers already know and use broadly run better by taking advantage of PC hardware through IE9 on Windows. This blog post provides an overview of what we showed today, across performance, standards, hardware-accelerated HTML5 graphics, and the availability of the IE9 Platform Preview for developers. First, we showed IE9’s new script engine, internally known as “Chakra,” and the progress we’ve made on an industry benchmark for JavaScript performance. With the differences between script engines on benchmarks approaching the duration of an eye-blink, we described our approach for making real-world sites faster. Chakra compiles JavaScript in the background on a separate core of the CPU, parallel to IE. We showed our progress in making the same standards-based HTML, script, and formatting markup work across different browsers. We shared the

Microsoft has invited developers to test-drive Internet Explorer 9. The software behemoth on Tuesday...

Microsoft's second day of MIX10 has seen the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, its first readily available version of the next-generation browser. The test version is described as rough and uses a bare frame but is the first version of IE to support HTML5, bringing it up to the level of Chrome and Safari as well as certain newer versions of Firefox. Even while early, however, it supports hardware acceleration and uses DirectX to accelerate drawing SVG images and text in the new web standard....

Wait, you just upgraded to Internet Explorer 8? You're already behind the times, friend! Microsoft is previewing an early version of its next-generation browser to the general public, a big change from its older ways.

Microsoft nabídl ke stažení technologické demo Internet Exploreru 9 s hardwarovou akcelerací. Vyzkoušet si ho může každý z vás a stojí to za to, Devítka je totiž vážně rychlá.

For those too stubborn to upgrade Microsoft has released automated workarounds designed to immunize users against a critical vulnerability in earlier versions of Internet Explorer, which criminals are already exploiting online.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Barence writes "Two weeks ago Microsoft started rolling out a Windows update within the European Union, giving every Internet Explorer user the option to switch browsers. As well as the five big names, anyone who scrolls the ballot window to the right will find seven further browsers, none of which is exactly a household name. There's no quality control being offered, either — they're simply the '12 most widely-used web browsers that run on Windows 7,' based on usage share in the European Economic Area. But what are these unknown browsers actually like? To find out, seven PC Pro staff installed a browser each, used it exclusively for a day, and ran a variety of tests. The browser-by-browser verdict on the hidden seven: two are worth a look for specific reasons, the other five are only likely to give an internet novice a horribly outdated idea of what web browsing is like." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Podle testů nezávislé organizace NSS Labs je Internet Explorer 8 nejbezpečnějším webovým prohlížečem. Ocenění získal především proto, že bez jakýchkoliv dalších bezpečnostních nástrojů dokáže zastavit téměř třikrát tolik škodlivých programů než jeho nejbližší konkurence.

After an exploit code was published, the company is attempting to patch a hole in IE6 and IE7 that could allow an attacker to control a user's computer

"...it would be nice to be able to run some backward-compatibility tests in Internet Explorer 7."

suraj.sun tips a report up at CNet which begins: "Browser makers, grappling with outmoded technology and a vision to rebuild the Web as a foundation for applications, have begun converging on a seemingly basic but very important element of cloud computing. That ability is called local storage, and the new mechanism is called Indexed DB. Indexed DB, proposed by Oracle and initially called WebSimpleDB, is largely just a prototype at this stage, not something Web programmers can use yet. But already it's won endorsements from Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google, and together, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome account for more than 90 percent of the usage on the Net today. 'Indexed DB is interesting to both Firefox and Microsoft, so if we get to the point where we prototype it and want to ship it, it will have very wide availability,' said Chris Blizzard, director of evangelism for Mozilla. ... Microsoft publicly endorsed Indexed DB on its IE blog: 'Together with Mozilla, we're excited about a new design for local storage called Indexed DB. We think this is a great solution for the Web,' said program manager Adrian Bateman." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Hi, In this post, I will introduce you to some of the most compelling Facebook add-ons for Internet Explorer 8. Share with Facebook Accelerator The Share with Facebook Accelerator allows you to share any text, link, or page with your Facebook friends with a single click. You can use this accelerator by selecting either some text or a link, or by right-clicking on any part of the page. Install here: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/204/Share_on_Facebook/ The technical beauty of this add-on is that it is extremely simple. In fact, it is contained in a single XML file, which is based on the OpenServiceDescription specification. Facebook Web Slice The Facebook Web Slice allows you to stay up to date with what’s happening in your Facebook network. Regardless what website you are on, you can click at any time on the web slice title and display the recent messages from your friends on your board. Install here: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/social/Facebook_Web_Slice/ The Web Slice uses the Facebook Connect APIs to connect to your account and it shows a notification when new content is available. Special thanks go to the MVP Konstantinos Pantos for his contribution to the community. Facebook Search Provider Do you need to search for someone on Facebook? You can start right away from the browser search box! Install here: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/searchhelpers/Facebook/ Again, this extension is built on top of an XML file which describes the end-point for the search

Máte starší verzi internetového prohlížeče a bojíte se, že  napříkad po 13. březnu vám přestane fungovat portál YouTube? Přinášíme vám bližší informace. Už delší dobu se při spuštění domény youtube.com zobrazuje  uživatelům starších prohlížečů (třeba Internet Explorer 6) hlášení o skončení podpory zastaralých softwarů a doporučuje instalaci novějších verzí. Zeptali jsme se tak přímo společnosti Google, [...]

Unsanitised blog laid exploit hunt clues A security researcher has credited McAfee for helping him to develop exploit code that cracks open an unpatched flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer.…What is your recession sales strategy?

A security researcher in Israel has produced an exploit code that could increase the changes of a zero-day hole in the IE6 and IE7

Kolargol00 writes "Heise online reports the availability of an exploit (Google translation) for the yet-unpatched MSA-981374 affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7. It has already been spotted in the wild by McAfee and integrated into the Metasploit Framework." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Nezávislá analýza potvrdila jednoznačný náskok Microsoftu v oblasti zabezpečení webového prohlížeče.  Každý den vzniká 15 až 50 tisíc nových škodlivých programů, které se snaží najít cestu do nechráněných počítačů a získat nad nimi kontrolu. Jako brána do počítače jim slouží stále častěji sociální sítě jako je Facebook a Twitter, které umožňují snadno podstrčit na legitimní stránky [...]

Microsoft hat fast zeitgleich zum Start einer bundesweiten Werbekampagne für den neuen Internet Explorer 8 eine Sicherheitswarnung für ältere Browser-Versionen veröffentlicht.

Attackers are exploiting an unpatched flaw in IE6 and IE7, which could allow them to access a system remotely, according to the company

Adobe's Mike Chambers late yesterday confirmed that his company is not only developing Flash for Windows Phone 7 but has been deeply involved with Microsoft. The developer notes that Adobe has been "working closely" with Microsoft and plans to integrate Flash 10.1 directly into Internet Explorer Mobile. Chambers doesn't have an estimate of when the plugin would be done....

"T-Community", die Chat-Plattform der Deutschen Telekom, spendiert jedem Neumitglied ein kostenloses Chat-Set. Also alles andere links liegen lassen und ganz oben auf "Mitglied werden" gehen und bitte auch den Internet-Explorer als Browser nutzen.…

Microsoft Internet Explorer 'iepeers.dll' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

We’re always excited to engage with members of the W3C including the developers of other browsers as well as the broader web development community to help shape the direction of emerging Web standards, particularly HTML5.  This includes participating in events like TPAC, which we wrote about in November, and on-going engagement with various working groups.  Patrick recently talked about joining the SVG working group, and I’d like to share a brief list of other happenings on the way to making HTML5 well-defined, well-tested, and accessible: Providing feedback on HTML5 Tony Ross, Internet Explorer Program Manager, and Jonas Sicking of Mozilla, led a discussion about extensibility in HTML5 at TPAC after our initial submission.  While the working group hasn’t resolved the issue yet, we think the event helped inform everyone and generate the different proposals submitted since.  Testing HTML5 Kris Krueger, Internet Explorer Test Lead, was appointed facilitator of the W3C HTML5 Testing Task Force.  The task force has set up necessary infrastructure like a wiki, Bugzilla, a work item tracker, and CVS repository for test cases.  With that in place, they’ve started to review DOM Level 2 HTML test cases to use as the start of HTML5 testing.  As with CSS2.1, we think a good test suite is critical to ensuring a specification results in interoperable implementations. Ensuring new specifications enable accessibility We care deeply about an accessi

IE 6 and 7 users targeted Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

K prvnímu březnu 2010 Microsoft ukončil podporu téměř devět let starého prohlížeče Internet Explorer 6. Čtyři dny poté byl v americkém Mountain View uspořádán neoficiální pohřeb, kterého se zúčastnilo mnoho internetových vývojářů a fanoušků internetu. Kytici poslal i samotný Microsoft, který k ní ...