Hi, my name is Andy Zeigler, and Im a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer Foundations team. Id like to tell you about a new IE8 feature called Loosely-Coupled IE, or LCIE for short.
Essentially, LCIE is a collection of internal architecture changes to Internet Explorer that improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the browser. It also paves the way for future improvements in other areas, including security and usability. To do this, weve
isolated the browser frame and its tabs and changed them to use asynchronous communication between components.
In this post, Ill walk you through the changes weve done in IE8 Beta 1.