Internet Explorer lags well behind its rivals when it comes to supporting the latest emerging web standards.

Not only is that bad for IE’s users, but Microsoft, once an innovator (one of the single most useful standards for today’s web, XMLHttpRequest, began life at Microsoft), isn’t even [...]]]>

Internet Explorer lags well behind its rivals when it comes to supporting the latest emerging web standards.

Not only is that bad for IE’s users, but Microsoft, once an innovator (one of the single most useful standards for today’s web, XMLHttpRequest, began life at Microsoft), isn’t even part of the discussion any more.

We’re hoping to see Microsoft become relevant again when details about IE 9

arrive later this year, but in the mean time it seems the web is doing its best to pick up Microsoft’s slack.

Take, for example, HTML5 video, which has been making waves lately with YouTube, Vimeo and other jumping on the native video bandwagon (although neither site supports open video codecs). Unfortunately, Internet Explorer users can’t enjoy native video since even the latest version of IE doesn’t know what to do with the HTML5 <video> tag.

Luckily for those that would like to stick with IE and enjoy native web video, Cristian Adam is working on a plugin for Internet Explorer that implements the HTML 5 video element. Adam’s work draws on Vladimir Vukicevic’s attempt to support the HTML5 canvas tag in IE8. Taken together, IE8 users can get at least some benefits of HTML5.

Adam’s HTML5 video support works with the free, open Ogg Theora video codec and the latest version features better Windows 7 support. Don’t hold your breath for an H.264 version of the add-on, since that would require Adams to pay licensing fees (one of the many, many reasons H.264 is bad for the web).

So far, Adam calls HTML5 video in IE a “Technical Preview,” and things are indeed very basic — there’s no seeking, no video controls and no HTML5 interface. If web-based HTML5 video controls like SublimeVideo catch on then lack of embedded UI controls won’t matter since site developers can easily add their own.

Web developers who would like to support Adam’s hack will need to add the xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/video" attribute to turn on the <video> tag for Internet Explorer.

The great promise of HTML5 is that it will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today.

While the language itself is almost fully baked, HTML5 won’t fully arrive for at [...]]]>

The great promise of HTML5 is that it will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today.

While the language itself is almost fully baked, HTML5 won’t fully arrive for at least another two years, according to one of the men charged with its design.

“I don’t expect to see full implementation of HTML5 across all the major browsers until the end of 2011 at least,” says Philippe Le Hegaret, interaction domain leader for the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), who oversees the development of HTML5.

He tells Webmonkey the specification outlining the long-promised rewrite of the web’s underlying language will be ready towards the end of 2010, but because of varying levels of support across different browsers, especially in the areas of video and animation, we’re in for a longer wait.

Most web pages are currently written in HTML version HTML 4.01, which has been around since the late 1990s. The web was mostly made up of static pages when HTML was born, and it has grown by leaps and bounds since then. Now, we favor complex web applications written in JavaScript like Gmail and Facebook, we stream videos in high-definition, we consume news in real-time feeds and generally push our browsers as far as they’ll go. These developments have left HTML drastically outdated, and web authors have resorted to using a variety of hacks and plug-ins to make everything work properly.

HTML5 — which is actually a combination of languages, APIs and other technologies to make scripted applications more powerful — promises to solve many of the problems of its predecessor, and do so without the hacks and plug-ins.

We’re already close. All the major browsers are providing some level of support for HTML5.

“There’s strong support already in Firefox and Safari. Even Microsoft IE8 has some partial support,” says Le Hegaret, referring to some code within HTML5 that enables the browser to pass information between pages.

Browser makers are approaching support incrementally, adding features little by little with every subsequent release. Some, like Mozilla, can build new features into the next release in a matter of months. For others, like Microsoft, it takes much longer.

Google Chrome is maturing extremely quickly and already supports most of HTML5. This is mostly because Google didn’t start from scratch — the company chose to use the open source Webkit rendering engine, the same one used by Safari. Still, this doesn’t mean both browsers support HTML5 equally.

“Video support between Safari and Chrome, despite the fact that they are both using the same underlying engine, is totally different because video support is not part of the Webkit project at the moment,” says Le Hegaret.

It’s actually this very issue — support for playing videos inside the browser — that continues to be one of main factors blocking the broad adoption of HTML5.

The way the specification is written now, website authors will have the ability to link to a video file as simply as an image file. The video plays in the browser without using a plug-in, and the author can create a player wrapper with controls.

But browser vendors are stuck arguing over which video format to support. Mozilla, Google and Opera are interested in the open source Ogg Theora video format. Apple has substantial investments in its Quicktime technology, so it’s pushing for the Quicktime-backed H.264 format. Microsoft wants people to use its Silverlight plug-in, so Internet Explorer isn’t supporting native video playback in the browser at all.

Google has voiced support for Ogg, but it has also recently made a bid to purchase On2, a company that makes a competing video technology. Rumor has it Google might release On2’s video technology under an open source license once the sale is complete.

Until these issues are sorted out, consumers and content providers alike are forced to rely on plug-ins. Le Hegaret says that while these plug-ins have certainly helped the web arrive where it is today, they continue to be a burden on the user.

Setting up any browser to support both H.264 and Ogg Theora requires at least one plug in, which harms the user experience.

“It’s hard today to ask people to install a plug-in unless the payoff is huge,” he says. “What’s driving the most successful plug-in, which is Flash, is video support. If you can’t see YouTube, your life on the web is pretty miserable. You’re missing a lot.”

Plug-ins aren’t just harder on web users, but they’re hard on web developers, too.

“Building with Flash or Silverlight in a way that lets you share information between the content appearing inside the plug-in and the rest of the page presents some challenges,” says Le Hegaret.

Unlike its predecessor, HTML5 has been designed with web applications in mind. The current HTML5 specification includes a media API that makes it easier to connect animations or video and audio elements — things traditionally presented within a Flash player — with the rest of the content on the page.

“You get a smoother application if you use HTML5. You’re not crossing a software layer. It’s all part of the same application.”

Unfortunately, the YouTubes of the world aren’t going to make a baseline switch from Flash to HTML5 unless they know there’s strong support for it in the browsers.

But they are testing the waters: Wikipedia is experimenting with HTML5 video support by serving Ogg Theora video to browsers that can handle it, and Flash to everyone else. YouTube and the video site Dailymotion have also set up special demo pages using this technique.

Le Hegaret says we’ll be in this period of transition — a dual-experience web where content sites serve HTML5 video along with a Flash fall-back — for a while.”

Web developers will continue to have to understand that not everyone is using the latest generation web browser, and that’s OK in the short term.”As far as being able to make the switch to a pure HTML5 web altogether, Le Hegaret says that’s only possible once browser vendors sort out their differences.

Once that day arrives, the final switch to HTML5 will be in the hands of the content providers. It’s up to them to begin coding for HTML5 standards and ditching support for old browsers.”

There are still a significant amount of people out there using IE6,” says Le Hegaret. “As a developer right now, you can’t really ignore it. Hopefully, in two or three years, you will be able to start ignoring IE6.”

With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day.

But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference [...]]]>

With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day.

But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference in Las Vegas, where, it has been speculated, the company will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers. Several clues point to the possibility that the next version of IE will include broad support for HTML5 elements, vector graphics and emerging CSS standards. If Microsoft plays its cards right in Vegas, IE 9 could be the release that helps IE get its groove back in the web browser game.

The biggest clue comes from the scheduled sessions for MIX, which takes place mid-March. There’s a two-part talk scheduled on HTML5, entitled HTML5 Now: The Future of Web Markup Today, by Opera Software’s Molly Holzschlag.

Indeed, Holzschlag tells Webmonkey she expects Microsoft to step up HTML5 support in IE9. “Look especially for Microsoft to be working on browser storage and other HTML5 features,” she said in an e-mail.

There’s also a session on IE and SVG, the vector graphics tools supported by pretty much every other browser. IE Senior Program Manager Patrick Dengler is scheduled to present on the Future of Vector Graphics for the Web.

Couple these clues with a post from the IE team on its official blog late last year about increased JavaScript rendering speeds and CSS support, and the team’s recent push to provide better support for SVG graphics and animations, it looks like IE 9 will present a huge step forward for Microsoft into the realm of HTML5, CSS 3 and other modern technologies that drive the most forward-thinking web apps.

Such a shift in thinking would be welcome. Picking on Internet Explorer Explorer is like fishing with dynamite — it’s just too easy to be fun anymore. In fact, many prominent forces on the web have stopped arguing against IE and simply started waving their hands in dismissal. It started with a few developers, but recently even Google has turned up its nose at IE, referring to it as a “non-modern” browser when talking about web standards and releasing its Chrome Frame plug-in to enable IE7 and IE8 users to run more advanced web apps. Worse, third-party developers have started to one-up Microsoft by hacking features into IE, like giving it the ability to display HTML5 video playback when none existed.

The current release, IE8, which shipped on every Windows 7 desktop in 2009, caught Microsoft up to where other browsers were in 2007 with support for CSS 2.1 and a couple of token HTML5 tools — most notably the offline storage elements. But that’s where its support for emerging standards ends.

At PDC09, Microsoft’s last big developer event, president of the Windows division Steven Sinofsky promised that Internet Explorer 9 was going to offer a “more modern” (there’s that word again) browsing experience and emphasized coming improvements in performance, JavaScript rendering, support for existing web standards and support for HTML5 and CSS 3.

But Sinofsky tempered his statements by saying Microsoft will continue to be “responsible” about how much it supports HTML5, so that “we don’t generate a hype cycle for things that aren’t there yet across the board for developers to take advantage of.”

While Microsoft is technically correct when it keeps saying that HTML5 isn’t finished, its failure to offer broad support for the new markup language has held IE back from the web’s cutting edge. The company has traditionally been reticent to support emerging standards, viewing them as a moving target and choosing only to concentrate on standards that have been ratified by the W3C, the web’s governing body. But delays at the W3C haven’t stopped the competition from forging ahead with HTML5, and if IE doesn’t start embracing the new laws of the land now, the browser’s dominance on the web is going to continue to crumble.

We contacted a Microsoft rep for this story, but they chose to save any further talk of IE9 until MIX

Printing webpages can be irritating, specially when they are full of advertisements and other clutter.

Your printouts are never focused on the actual content and you find all sorts of headers, menu items, advertisements and [...]]]>

Printing webpages can be irritating, specially when they are full of advertisements and other clutter.

Your printouts are never focused on the actual content and you find all sorts of headers, menu items, advertisements and other clutter congesting your prints. The actual content gets pushed to several pages.

Not only it costs you more in terms of more wasted inks and papers, it is also very irritating because a simple one page content might get divided into multiple pages.

Printee – Internet Explorer (IE) addon to Avoid Ads, Clutter when Printing Webpages

Printee is a simple addon for Internet Explorer, which can avoid all sorts of clutter and let you focus on the actual content. It allows you to pick and choose what you want to print and avoid other elements on the webpage.

Features of Printee

1. Condense any web page down to just the content you want, no anything useless
2. Reducing your paper and ink usage
3. What You See Is What You Get
4. Support Ecofont, Save 20% Ink
5. Send by Mail, Share with friends
6. Improve Readability of the Web Page only one key (Ctrl-G)

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The plug-in allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer using the Google Chrome rendering engine. Redmond warned that the plug-in made IE less secure as soon as it became available back in [...]]]> Microsoft has helped discover a flaw in the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users.

The plug-in allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer using the Google Chrome rendering engine. Redmond warned that the plug-in made IE less secure as soon as it became available back in September, an argument bolstered by the discovery of a cross-origin bypass flaw in the add-in security controls though not to go all the way and drop malware onto vulnerable systems.

Microsoft and security researcher Lostmon are jointly credited with discovering the vulnerability in Google’s browser add-on.

Google acknowledged the flaw and urged users to update to version 4.0.245.1 of Google Chrome Frame. All users should be updated automatically to the latest version of the software, which also tackles a number of performance and stability glitches. Chief among these are problems handling iFrames, as explained in Google’s security advisory

If [...]]]> Many times working on the net, Internet explorer will show Scrip Error on the web.
Internet Explorer Script Errors comes sometimes when there is problem with the programmer existing on the web .And Script errors is also the result of the computer setting which avoid ‘Internet Explorer’ to perform the script properly.

If there is no problem with the programmer on the web page, then u have to check web page any other use account, some other browser, and different computer system. With this you will come to know where exactly the problem exists. If then there is no error with the program while using different browser, computer or account then problem must be with the settings of the computer or files of the computer. If this is the reason u need to click following procedure: Start ‘Internet Explorer’, In the ‘Tools’ menu click’ Internet Options’ then in the dialog box click ‘Security’ Tab, Click ‘Default Level and then Ok.

You even need to check whether Internet Explorer has ‘blocked’ Active X, Active Scripting.
Delete the temporary ‘Internet-related files’. The reason is sometimes the size of Internet files becomes very big that’s why some display problems exists whenever we open web page. To delete all the existing Temporary saved files-Start ‘Internet Explorer’, On the ‘Tools’ menu click’ Internet Options’ then click the ‘General’ Tab click ‘Settings’ click ‘Delete files’ and Ok, also click ‘Delete Cookies’ and again Ok, click ‘Clear History’ ‘Yes’ and Ok.

If you are sure that there is no problem with computer system and the browser you need to repair ‘Script Engine’ for Internet Explorer for the millennium edition, Windows 98 and its second edition. ‘Script Engine’ can be updated as well. Internet Explorer script error appears while your program doesn’t display any video, ‘Smooth Scrolling’ can be the reason of the script error.

To overcome from Smooth Scrolling while using Internet Explorer 6 follow the following steps: On the ‘Tools menu, click ‘Internet Options’, then on the ‘Advanced’ tab, click ‘Use Smooth Scrolling’ check box, Click OK, and u can exit from Internet Explorer. One more solution to Internet Explorer Script errors is you can install recent ‘software updates’ and ‘service pack’ for “Internet Explorer 7’ or ‘Internet Explorer6’. You can install Internet 6 or 7.
Hardware Accelerations are use in Internet Explorer to increase the speed of the programmers. And if the Hardware Accelerations are set incorrectly this will also result in Script Errors. To overcome from this problem turn off Hardware Acceleration. Select Click the option Start, then in the Open box, type desk.cpl and press Enter. Click ‘Settings’ tab, and ‘Advanced’ tab. Then click ‘Troubleshoot’ tab, and shift the ‘Hardware Acceleration’ slider to ‘None’. And lastly press OK two times.
At times Internet Explorer Script Errors are annoying. You can even hide this message. To get rid of these errors one should follow the following steps:

Open ‘Internet Explorer’, Go to ‘Tools menu’, click the ‘Internet Option’ menu item, Open ‘Advanced’ tab and then click Ok button on the box next to the “Display script”. And then ok

Thats it. You are done.

Internet Explorer Script Error can be pretty annoying sometimes. Learn more about how to troubleshoot Internet Explorer Script Error.

Then [...]]]> Although you may have one of the latest versions of internet explorer, it is not safe forever. Then I sincerely remind you that you should be caution in yourInternet Explorer step by step, because the possibility of the browser breaking down is not zero unless you do nothing with your pc.

Then what are the Internet Explorer error symptoms and what causes them? Thus now we get the errors classified into several types: First, the web browser temporarily hangs / freezes up / locks up while loading certain web pages; Second, web pages take an intolerable longer time to load than is normally expected, even if you have rebooted your machine or you are on a high-speed Internet connection; Third, the web browser stops responding completely, and refuses even to terminate even if you attempt to stop its process through Windows Explorer; Forth, the web browser spontaneously crashes and stops running.

It is difficult to determine what causes Internet Explorer errors on earth. However there is one point that most of the Internet Explorer problems have little to do with Internet speed or your computer’s memory or CPU or Internet itself. What may actually cause the problems is the system ability to connect with Internet Explorer. Then how to make system ability well connect with Internet Explorer?Registry Winner could do it for you!

The windows registry contains information to run all software and hardware on your computer. In order to repair IE you must first fix the registry.

You should first run a scan of your registry and fix all the corrupt files. Unfortunately you cannot locate these errors manually so Registry Winner can do it for you. After analysing the problems and fixing them, the software will not only keep your Internet Explorer streamline but enhance your pc performance.

As to how to reinstall or repair Internet Explorer, Registry Winner could give you such hints:

Install Internet Explorer

Visit Microsoft Official Web site:
download and install Internet Explorer.

Repair Internet Explorer

If you have Internet Explorer 7, you can repair damaged files or missing registration information in Internet Explorer 7. To do this, follow these steps:

Open Registry Winner

Click IE Tools, click Internet Options.

On the Advanced tab, click Reset.

In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, click Reset to confirm

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