Bruce Lawson post a new article about Improvin the Internet Explorer support with conditional comments. In this areticle he describes all kind of CSS hacks that can help Make Internet Explorer support better. He writes:

«Nearly three years ago, as the IE development team called for developers to clean up their CSS hacks in preparation for the release of IE7, I wrote a blog post called Future-proof your CSS with Conditional Comments, which detailed how to use a proprietary Microsoft technique to avoid CSS hacks by feeding separate CSS (or JavaScript, or whatever) to different versions of Internet Explorer.

It led to a stranger at a conference thanking me for saving his professional life and sparked a good debate, in which I was either a jobbing pragmatist or an incarnation of Satan, depending on your view. (Actually, I’m both. Bwa-hah-hah!)

Three years is a long time on the Web. Back then, IE7 was yet to come, its precursors IE6 and IE5 were hanging in the air like a bad smell in an unventilated bathroom, and more and more elaborate CSS hacks were being discovered and used. Some style sheets were so full of weird backslashes, stars, and underscores that they looked more like a regular expression or Perl. I recommended the removal of such hacks and using Microsoft’s conditional comments instead.»

Source: Opera Developer Community.

Jeffrey way shows how to deal with the double margin bug in Internet Explorer. Here's small excerpt from this article:

«How To Compensate For the IE6 Double Margin Bug. In this video tutorial, I'll teach you a few different ways to deal with the problems that Internet Explorer 6 has. When floating an element that has left or right margins applied, IE6 will incorrectly double these margins. In effect, a left margin of 100px turns into 200px. We'll focus on three different ways to compensate for this nasty bug.

Dave Woods post an article about upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8, in which he tells how to make your sites ready for a new browser. Dave also gathered some useful links on articles about IE8. He writes:

«It’s nearly time to get ready for the release of IE8 but is your website up to the job and if not, what can you do about it?

There was a lot of discussion earlier in the year regarding how Internet Explorer was going to deal with web standards and initially it was feared that IE8 would by default render using IE7’s engine.

However, after much discussion in the web development world, Microsoft listened to the community and instead opted for the sensible option which will now require you to include the meta tag if you want to use IE7 mode.»

Source: Dave Wood's blog.

One more article about fixing IE double margin float bug from Rob Glazerbrook. He writes:

«The double-margin float bug has been a source of irritation for CSS-loving web designers for years. The bug first became a major problem in IE5, when CSS started to become increasingly popular, and persisted through IE6. And, while an easy (if mysterious) fix has been known for quite some time now, it occurs to me that perhaps not everyone knows about it. So I thought it couldn’t hurt to toss another explanation out there.

So what is the double-margin float bug? It’s an Internet Explorer-exclusive bug wherein an element that is floated – and given a margin in the same direction as the float – ends up with twice the specified margin size. In other words, if you were to float an element to the left and give it a 20-pixel left margin, in IE the margin would actually be 40 pixels wide. It only happens when the margin is in the same direction as the float, but it happens to both left and right floats. At least IE is consistent in its inconsistency.»

Source: CSSNewbies.

Brandon Cannaday writes about recently released InternetExplorer 8. In this article he reviews all new features of this release. Here's short list of topica disccused in this article:

• Installing.

• First launch

• Look and feel.

• Rendering Quality.

• Other features.

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The AJAXWorld Magazine has revealed some details about the next version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Here is small excert from interview with IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch -

"As I’ve walked different people through the plan, I’ve gotten 'Does it have feature X?' “When is the beta?' 'When does it release' and even the more thoughtful 'What are you trying to accomplish with this release?'

You will hear a lot more from us soon on this blog and in other places."

1. Download:

   Virtual PC 2007 – emulates another computer on the same OS.

   Image file of Windows XP SP2 – there are IE6 and devtoolbar.

2. Install Virtual PC, with help of wizard choose file of Windows XP SP2 image.
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Companion.JS (pronounced Companion dot JS or CJS) is a Javascript debugger for IE. The current version is 0.2, adding the following features to IE :

Explore final release of IE Developer Toolbar.

Overview

The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to: