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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."
We have NOW seen what MS will do once it believes it web browsers, it will do nothing. It will ignore our requests for improvements, it will stop developing, it will ignore it's users. Since it started doing that, what have we seen? Improvements! Of course, not from MS that decided to ignore us, and ignore it's feature request tools. Now that MS has realized that people aren't going to stand for it, they are trying to come back, my only hope is that people don't flock to IE7, because we've already seen what they will do if we go back to them! Boycott IE7 until MS makes a serious promise to it's user base not to let this kind of thing happen again. In the meantime, sit back and practice mouse gestures with Opera...oh damnit, right click up, down! not down, up, now I just closed that window...oh well.
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Though I don't believe it's "Goodbye FireFox", you cannot honestly say to me that IE7 doesn't have the potential to disrupt FF's market share.
It does, not because it will actually be the better product - only because it might be un-sucky enough for the very lazy Dell/HP/eMachines crowd to not feel motivated to try something else...
How is IE making your life harder? I think that you are making yourself harder by putting things in your web site that not only are obscure enough not to work on most people's browsers, but are merely aesthetic and have zero functional value. Try concentrating on content rather than throwing in every little CSS trick you read about.
Sorry, but you desperately need a reality check. You are talking about probably the largest and most successful software company in the world.
It is an important part of the Slashdot kool-aid that Microsoft is a talentless zombie land who only survives via luck and criminal activities.
To admit the truth - that money and resources might actually be a factor in attracting good peopel and developing good software - is to expose the lie that if you "open the source" you get unlimited top talent for free.
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It was great until I started geting spycrap through it too. Now I only use it when I feel like tabbed browsing.
New IE7 service pack announced...