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Browser Wars about to Begin...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

Looks like were getting Internet Explorer 7 this year :tu:

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Today at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7. As the guy responsible for IE, I wanted to say a couple of things about it...

Full Story in link above.

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Way to go Microsoft! :D :tu:

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It had better render CSS and other standards properly or it'll be a waste of time.

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Originally Posted by Richard M

It had better render CSS and other standards properly or it'll be a waste of time.

Be even more pointless if it just comes out for XP. At least they are STILL responding to 2000 user demands :Yikes:

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On the topic heres something i saw a few days back

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html

Especially for the firefox fanboys :p:

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Let's see some stakes on how sh*t it will be then guys and guyettes... :)

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Lot's of commentary on the 'net, here and here.
This made me laugh though:

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Don't bother, just give up and go home. Microsoft is on the way out and Gates is getting desperate, even threatening Danish politicians now if they don't back his Euro policies - disgusting. Good riddance to your lame software.

...and this guy is obviously your typical M$ fanboy arse:

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# re: IE7 2/15/2005 10:55 AM Jonathan

Excellent news. As someone who develops apps that embed the web browser and MSHTML, I can't wait to find out what additional features are going to be added.

Interesting timing too, because just last week I had a dream where I got a preview CD of IE7.

Dreaming of a browser? :erm:

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Dreaming of a browser? :erm:

He's SICK ;) needs to sort it out :D

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IE7? Think I'll pass. :)

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Originally Posted by poolking

IE7? Think I'll pass. :)

Ditto :tu:

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Nah.......I'll give it a go :)

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Originally Posted by poolking

IE7? Think I'll pass. :)

Why? At least if it's crap and you've tried it, you KNOW it's crap rather than just listening to other people.

Or, are you afraid that Microsoft have listened to people's complaints and improved it, so Firefox will lose out on those who use it in protest?

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I'll try anything once :)

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Originally Posted by scastle

Unfortunately it's a case of Firefox users slabbering about "M$ fanboys" without realising they're just as bad.

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I'll probably install it (after all my machine is powerful enough to take it but only use it for those sites that are so sh*tly programmed that you have to use IE.

Happy with Opera thank you very much!

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Dreaming of a browser? :erm:

Maybe it's a bit extreme. I wonder if some people here dream of Firefox (certainly seems like some people might).
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Originally Posted by Scarlett

Same here, although I'll probably have to install it at some point anyway as our corporate administration website is one of that "sh*tly programmed" sites you have to use IE on. It all works properly (if you know the URLs of the pages, they all work) apart from half the options on the main menu don't display on non-IE browsers. All because the person that designed it used a package to generate a pretty fading effect, and the package generated IE standard DHTML, instead of W3C standard DHTML.
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Originally Posted by Richard M

It had better render CSS and other standards properly or it'll be a waste of time.

Looks like it might render CSS properly according to /.

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Originally Posted by /.

Its pretty likely that the png & css problems will be fixed because when the ie 7 team at MS was formed, they acknowledged that these problems were one of the driving forces for reestablishing the team.

As far as tabbed browsing & mouse gestures, well MS has been pretty smug in saying they provide what their customers are asking for & they aren't asking for tabbed browsing & mouse gestures - so probably not.

Of course, that is mainly speculation, but if it is true that CSS problems were part of the reason Microsoft re-established the IE team, they may be looking at standardising it.

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If it comes out for 2000 (which I hope it does), I'll be giving it a go. Otherwise I'll stick to Avant.

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

I'll try anything once :)

Fair enough..

(was going to say "Ooohhh Matron", but thought better of it).

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Originally Posted by Richard M

It had better render CSS and other standards properly or it'll be a waste of time.

Hell, I'll be happy if they can just fix the rendering of transparent PNGs. The picture below has a transparent background in all browsers except for IE, where it displays in a grey box.

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Originally Posted by Lew

There's a javascript fix you can use for that (until IE7 is released).

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

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If it's good then I'll use it, well at work at any rate since I doubt they will do a Linux version that I can use at home.