Internet Explorer
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Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE, is a web browser developed by Microsoft®.
The latest version, 7, is available for Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.
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[edit] Standards Compliance
Internet Explorer currently conforms to many, but not all, parts of the HTTP, HTML, and CSS standards.
[edit] HTTP
- Internet Explorer, at least until version 6, ignores the MIME type set in the HTTP header if the URL ends in a file extension. IE inspects the file extension and assumes the file type.
[edit] HTML
- The button element's value property is not properly represented in the DOM or form submissions. The actual value property is ignored and the inner HTML of the button is set as the value instead. Therefore Firefox and Safari will present one value, while IE will present another. (Versions 6 and 7; fixed in IE 8)
- The button element's type property does not correctly default to submit as described in the HTML 4 standard. (Versions 6 and 7)
[edit] Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8, currently a beta version, is expected to have better standards compliance and security. Among the security enhancements is a feature to execute each browser tab in a separate process. Unlike Google Chrome, however, each process is not explicitly assigned to any tab, and therefore complete isolation, such as to prevent cross-site scripting attacks, may not exist.
[edit] JavaScript
IE 8 contains various JavaScript changes from previous versions: [1]
- AJAX navigation - web pages can trigger updates to browser components like the address bar by altering the value of window.location.hash.
- DOM storage
- Selectors API based on the W3C standard for querying elements based on CSS [2]
- XMLHTTPRequest adds a timeout property
- Cross-domain requests (XDR) with XDomainRequest
- Cross-document messaging (XDM) API allows communication through iframes between documents, including across different domains
- HTML sanitization via toStaticHTML
- Native JSON support
- DOM Prototype and getter/setter support
[edit] See Also
[edit] Notes
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