Simon Willison’s Weblog

JavaScript Minifier that doesn’t break code (via) Perl re-implementation of Douglas Crockford’s classic JSMin that doesn’t clobber IE’s conditional comments, by Peter Michaux.

# 4th June 2007, 5:44 pm / conditionalcomments, douglas-crockford, internet-explorer, james-bennett, javascript, jsmin, perl, pete-michaux

How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft’s best kept secret: a decent free debugger for Internet Explorer that doesn’t require you to install Microsoft Office.

# 2nd May 2007, 2:06 pm / debugging, internet-explorer, javascript, microsoft, visualwebdeveloperexpress

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.

# 20th April 2007, 4:47 pm / ie7, internet-explorer, microsoft, testing, virtualization

Avoid IE Brokenness When using Vary and Attachments (via) Django middleware that works around a bug in IE where external applications fail to load content that was served with a Vary header.

# 9th April 2007, 9:41 am / django, http, internet-explorer, middleware, python

IE and 2-letter domain-names (via) IE won’t let you set a cookie on XX.YY, where YY is anything other than .pl or .gr. Other browsers have better exception lists.

# 15th February 2007, 12:33 am / cookies, dns, internet-explorer, mark-pilgrim

IE JScript Performance Recommendations Part 3. Once again, Microsoft’s official advice is to avoid closures entirely rather than learn how to use them safely. Sigh.

# 9th January 2007, 11:48 am / closures, internet-explorer, javascript, microsoft

Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE. With illustrative screen shots.

# 2nd December 2006, 2:10 pm / bugs, haslayout, internet-explorer, natalie-downe

Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE (via) Remote code execution. No patch yet; disable Active Scripting instead.

# 22nd November 2005, 6:24 am / exploits, internet-explorer, security, zeroday

Trixie: Greasemonkey for IE (via) Second attempt—but it’s still closed source.

# 31st May 2005, 7:15 pm / greasemonkey, internet-explorer

Goodbye to GreasemonkIE (via) A sad death to a promising project.

# 17th April 2005, 9:39 pm / greasemonkey, internet-explorer

Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer. Requires the .NET framework—still has some way to go.

# 1st April 2005, 2:23 pm / greasemonkey, internet-explorer

Internet Explorer 7. It’s been announced, but the stated focus is security and anti-phishing. No news on improved CSS.

# 15th February 2005, 7:04 pm / css, ie7, internet-explorer, phishing, security

IE in Windows XP SP2. An overview of the new security changes.

# 10th August 2004, 7:39 pm / internet-explorer, security, windows