2. Sachin V. Rathi
Architect Advisor, Microsoft Corp.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sachinrathi

3. An Avid Gamer
An Architect
A user/consumer/producer

4. Internet Explorer is…
Non-compliant with Standards
Slow
Insecure
… or is it?

5. Web Standards
HTML 4.01 CSS 2.1 ACID 2
The best way to get interoperability:
Comprehensive unbiased test suites
7201 test cases contributed to W3C
http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter

6. CSS 2.1 Compliance
100%
95%
90%
% Passing Tests
85%
80%
75%
70%
65%
http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter

7. Web Standards

8. Internet Explorer is…
Non-compliant with Standards
Slow
Insecure
… or is it?

9. Webpage Performance
CPU Cycles Consumed by Top CPU Cycles Consumed by Top
100 Sites Worldwide AJAX Applications
Other Rendering
Jscript
CSS DOM
HTML
Formatting Other Layout
Parsing
Layout Jscript
Marshalling Marshalling
HTML
Parsing DOM
CSS
Rendering Formatting

10. Page Load Times
# Site Firefox Chrome IE # Site Firefox Chrome IE
1 google.com  14 ebay.com 
2 yahoo.com  15 sina.com.cn 
3 live.com  16 mozilla.com 
4 msn.com  17 adobe.com 
5 youtube.com  18 aol.com 
6 microsoft.com  19 amazon.com 
7 wikipedia.com  20 apple.com 
8 blogger.com  21 soso.com 
9 facebook.com  22 xunlei.com 
10 qq.com  23 163.com 
11 baidu.com  24 google.cn 
12 myspace.com  25 ask.com 
13 wordpress.com  Total 4 9 12

11. Performance
Parallel connection limit increased to six
Pre-parser doesn’t block at script tags
Layout engine faster
Jscript improvements (70% faster than IE7!)
Look ups
Garbage collector
Marshalling
…

12. Compatibility
IE8 Layout Engines
Publishers have full control over the layout
“X-UA-COMPATIBLE” META tag or HTTP header

13. Compatibility Mode

14. Internet Explorer is…
Non-compliant with Standards
Slow
Insecure
… or is it?

15. Security
Integrated anti-phishing protection Inprivate filtering
Secure development lifecycle (SDL) (control of 3P data sharing)
IEAK, centralized build 24/7 escalation for phishing
and update management and malware
Extended validation P3P support
(ev) ssl certificates Anti-spoofing int. Domain
Domain highlighting names control
Integrated cross site Cross document messaging (XDM)
scripting protection Centralized add-on management
HTTP only cookies Integrated click-jacking prevention
Legacy versions support
(10 years)

16. Security

17. Internet Explorer is…
Non-compliant with Standards
Slow
Insecure

18. Developer Productivity
CSS, HTML and JavaScript debugger “in the box”
Page “live editing”
Execution control (breakpoints, immediate window,
step into, …)
Layout box model, style tracing
Profiler

19. Developer Productivity

20. Looking Forward to the Future
HTML 5
XDR/XDM
JSON
CSS selectors
DOM storage
Mutable DOM prototypes
Ajax navigation
Network connection awareness
CSS 3
Box-sizing
Vertical-text

21. IE8 New HTML / CSS Features
http://www.ie8demos.com

22. Creating Optimal Scenarios with IE8
These 6 scenarios have been identified as
top browsing tasks across markets:
Shopping Search, News
and Research Social
Sharing
Networking
Memories
Email and
Entertainment Communication
Visual Search Web Slices Accelerators
Richer, more active, and Monitor your favorites sites Direct, contextual access to
more useful search. on the Web. web services from any page.

23. New User Experiences
Accelerators:
Get things done faster
Web Slices:
Keep up with what matters most
Visual Search:
Visualize your search

24. Accelerators
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()

25. Accelerators

26. Web Slices
80% of navigations are to previously visited places
Refresh is in the top 20 commands
We see people go back to some sites many times a
day -- Email, social, stocks, auction, news, etc.
Faster – fewer actions to navigate
Quicker way to get back to sites that have frequent
updates
Thoughts for Site Authors
Exposure
Added to front of the favorites bar
Gleam and bold when there’s new content

27. Web Slices

28. Visual Web Search
Search smarter
Detailed suggestions
Favorite search providers
Browsing history
Visual previews

29. Visual Search

30. Call to Action
Developers Tools
Debugging
Profiling
Compatibility
Compatibility mode
Visual Search
Accelerators
Web Slices

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