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New IE7 Information Announced
Brandon writes "Looks like the IE team is trying to catch up to some of the major OS browsers. They have finally added proper PNG support and have fixed numerous CSS bugs. The full post is on The Official IEBlog." From the post: "We're doing a lot more than this in IE7, of course, and we're really excited that the beta release is almost here - we're looking forward to the feedback when we release the first beta of IE7 this summer. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to beta."
Thanks for playing.
You lose.
are people still using that old browser?
"Supporting exciting new standards in which life improving spyware bring you more features than ever before!" *sulks* I tried.
Download Opera 9 (in the BETA forum)
All my porn, er, video plug-ins work fine in Firefox.
They have finally added proper PNG support
I am so happy to hear this. In this IE6 world a webdesigner cannot use transparent pngs, because roughly 90% of your viewership's browser would not render them correctly. One was then forced to either use transparent gifs (which only support 2 level of transparency, i.e., on or off) or else try to fake it (which is difficult because IE and Gecko don't always render colors the same.) Hopefully they'll finally implement some more CSS2, like allowing the hover pseudo class to be used with any object, rather than just links. Oh, and perhaps they could finally fix the box model.
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered as a bad move.
That essentially forces my hand at picking FireFox.
If IE were supported on Linux and Solaris, I might be able to consider it; and then it'd make the windows users happier.
This just in...The new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 will be Firefox rebranded to IE.
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First quit stuffing this proprietary crap down my throat, at least have the decency to put it under the GPL.
... excuse me!!!!
.... no I mean the real java from Sun. And the same with the "real" javascript too now that I'm thinking about it.
... eg ... overwrite the blocks on the hard drive with random data. Get it!
... and the same with crapromedia now that I'm thinking of it.
Second, please don't default load to the msn page, WTF, google.com would be much nicer.
Third, could you actually put something in there to block ads and popups, and any other crap that I don't want on my screen. Al least temporairly. Eg NO AD.DOUBBLECLICK.NET !!!!!
Fourth, last time I looked default IE has over ONE GIG of cache in the settings
Fifth, could you actually make it work with java?????
Sixth, don't renember all my crap - I want privacy and security - and when I close the browser I want the option to not only take out the cache, cookies, and history of web sites visited, but also want it to TRUELY ERASE IT
Seventh, oh and this really pisses me off, PLEASE PLEASE when I hit the reload button - I want it to actually reload the data from the URL over the internet not reload a bunch of cache!!!
Eigth, can't you natively render PDF's. Why do I half to deal with all this over bloated adobe crap????
Ninth, please put something in there that makes it easy for me to "steal" (GASP!!!) someone's "intellectual property". Yeah I know that's hideous to you, but that's what I want so get with it or get over it and get lost.
Actually, forget this, mozilla's not perfict, but at least it's going in the right directions.
I encypted a popup into my feedback (I'm a tester), but then they probably have Active X disabled.
They forgot to mention that the new IE will render the letter "K" as the letter "O", and vice versa.
This feature should be easy to deal with, so long as pages are designed with it in mind. Unfortunately this will cause some confusion when trying to use the expression "O.K." or the boxing term "K.O.".
The new feature that causes the letter "e" to appear as a tiny version of the explorer logo is now slated for version 7.1, it had to be delayed due to technical problems. Consumer research shows that people think that the explorer logo is cuter than the letter "e".
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If IE is so integrated into Windows that it cannot be removed (as MS says), then how does IE also run on the Mac?
Poorly?
"Improving CSS support consistency" means that CSS in IE is going to be consistently broken.
There will be new security holes and exploits for everyone to enjoy!
so basically, what you're saying is that you're a humorless, self-righteous prick, and no woman in posession of her senses would ever share your bed.
If you don't fix your client websites, your reputation will go the way of the dodo. If you do you'll have weeks upon weeks of unpaid work.
Who says? The sites worked fine in IE6; that's what we got paid for. If they don't work in IE7, we can be paid again to fix them.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
that they invented tabbed browsing. They'll probably give it a fancy buzzword name too, something like "XPTab" or whatnot.