Tag Archives: IE8

Seven Things You Should Known About IE 8

April 04th, 2009 - 5:26PM

We’ve been using IE 8 for just over two weeks and wanted to run through some of the significant differences that will affect anyone involved in web development, debugging or performance tuning. #1 : IE 8 Opens More Connections Per Host Name As we previously mentioned in Blocked time and IE8, the default number of concurrent connections per host name has been increased in IE 8. In earlier versions of IE only a maximum of two connections would simultaneously download content from a single host name (e.g. www.microsoft.com ). Here’s an example using HttpWatch and IE 7: The limit of only two … Continue reading →

Blocked time and IE 8

March 03st, 2008 - 5:00PM

A common question we hear from our customers is “What is the Blocked time in HttpWatch and why are we seeing some much of it?” The Blocked time in HttpWatch is shown as a gray block at the start of a request: We measure this time by looking at the time interval between these two events: The point at which IE determines that it requires the resource at a certain URL. For example, it may have downloaded some HTML and encountered an <img> tag that refers to a GIF file. At some later time IE peforms a network action required to download or … Continue reading →

Printing and IE 8 Support in HttpWatch Version 5.3

March 03th, 2008 - 10:00AM

Version 5.3 includes printing, print preview, support for IE 8 Beta 1 and several other fixes. The version history contains a detailed list of the changes.