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IE7 Details Emerge
Varg Vikernes writes "Microsoft Watch has a story about new features we can expect in IE7 (code named 'Rincon') which they gathered through Microsoft's key partners. Apparently we can expect 32 bit PNG support, native IDN support, new functionality that will simplify printing from inside IE and, of course, tabbed browsing. The new browser also will likely include a built-in news aggregator. Apparently an important factor is security."
Or Opera from several years ago? Please, don't fall into the trap that all those features (including tabbed browsing) that you love in Firefox are original: most of them are quite unashamedly inferior implementations of features premiered by Opera.
Fortunately, the good people at Opera aren't software patent-crazy. If they were, Firefox wouldn't have half the features that it does.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
No doubt IE7 will include further steps to tilt the playing field.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I actually find that IE printing is great. Firefox, and Linux in general, tend to chop off things right in the middle. (Maps for example) IE does a good job of making sure things stay together like thier supposed to.
(Note: I'm still not anywhere near advocating IE - just pointing out a single thing that Firefox could improve)
...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed.
Im not inciting anyone to do anything of course but I think it would be beneficial if there accidentally happened to be a worm on the loose that converted people to firefox and disguised it as IE - just to push the un-washed masses into whats good for them. The greatest problem in the web industry is the lack of one single browser with one single standard and one set of bugs, firefox is the answer and unless IE 7 can do everything that FF can do _and_ is cross-platform its just not helping the issue.
Yes I can see the security issue with having everyone use one browser but at the moment its something like 70%/20%/5%/5% which means developers have to pull their hair out making things work in every browser and security holes still fuck everyone over.
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Oops... looks like that was stolen too.. oh well.
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
Firefox + Gayness - Efficiency - Extensions = IE7
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
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