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ashish jaimanarchitect evangelist

Microsoft

ashishja@microsoft.com

mailto:ashishja@microsoft.commailto:ashishja@microsoft.com

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Notable new CSS features Generated content and counters

Outlines

New display values for tables

CSS 3.0 Features Box-sizing property

Vertical text

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You can specify the versions of IE your site isdesigned to support

Content Value Meaning

IE=5 Display in Quirks mode

IE=7 Display in IE7 Standards mode

IE=EmulateIE7 Display standards DOCTYPEs in IE7Standards mode; Display quirks

DOCTYPEs in Quirks mode

IE=8 Display in IE8 Standards mode

IE=Edge Display in latest mode; In the IE8

release, this is equivalent to IE=8

Declared overrides The mode specified on page takes precedence over modespecified by server

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2 options for rendering your site as it did in IE7

On a per-site basis, add the custom HTTP Header:X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

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On a per-page basis, add a tag right after the tag:

My Web Page

Content goes here.

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Beta 1: EmulateIE7 Button

Required Browser RestartOnly 2 universal modes: On/OffUsability success rate: 25%

Beta 2: Compatibility View Button

Does NOT require restartCan apply per-tab, per-sessionOnce clicked for a domain itpersistsPredicted success rate: 70+%

(main toolbar) (Address bar)

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Security is key Domain Highlighting

Improved Add-On experience

Crash Recovery Browser tabs run independently

Feeds Platform adds authentication support HTTP based authentication for Basic and Digest

Basic authentication via SSL Can save credentials

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A new rendering engine that runs side by side

Users expect their sites to just work What do developers want?

IE6 Rendering

IE7 Rendering IE8 Rendering

How do we give developers what they want?

Compatibility Meta Tag or HTTP Header

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Tools ship in the box

Debugging HTML & CSS

View effective styles, Trace styles, View applied

rules, View layout, Edit HTML and CSS

Debugging JavaScript

Execution control, Variable Inspection,Immediate Window

Easy rendering engine changing

Switch between layout modes without changingthe page source

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Provides web services with a simple right click Maps, Blogs, Email, Productivity, Social Networking

Quickly drive users back to your site

Uses Open Service Format Simple XML file

Easy to deploy to users

window.external.IsServiceInstalled()

window.external.AddService()

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Users monitor lots of content on the web

Auctions, Weather, Top News, Blogs

Web Slices allow users to subscribe to

content directly within a web page

Requires a developer to mark up theirpage with a couple of new CSS classes

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smart address bar

Accelerator

One click favorite

Search suggestions Web slices

Tabs

Security and privacy In private browsing

Crash recovery

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