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IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing
loconet writes that early yesterday morning, "Dean Hachamovitch, IE product unit manager, confirmed that IE7, like Opera and Firefox first did years ago, will have tabbed browsing as one of its new features. Asa Dotzler,from Mozilla, points out that Dean reminds IE users who have not upgraded to XP that tabbed browsing can be added to IE through 3rd-party add-ons." cryptoz adds a link to this InformationWeek story which says that the tabs will be very "'basic' due to fears from Microsoft that tabbed browsing might scare off too many users. The feature is only being included because IE is slipping in the browser share market."
Average IE User:
"My God! TABS! Eeeek!"
(runs away from computer)
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Pop up blocking, tabbed browsing and Anti-virus software. What will MS think off next?
Has Microsoft patented it yet?
Hey, look! This funny browser has tabs, just like in Internet Explorer!
Will it support CSS1? Is CSS2 support scheduled for IE8.0 or should we expect that later?
The reason its 'part of the OS' is that the back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel) to connect to the internet. 'Remove' IE (and I guess you don't mean remove 'just the GUI') would cripple a great many programs out there.
Why, back where I come from, we used to call that a "library" and it wasn't something we'd keep all warm and idling and share-y. Back in the day, every app could load up its own copy - they ain't so darned big that it matters a whole lot - and everyone goes away happy. This whole IE approach of tryin' to lash application code to this newfangled live executing library-like-but-not code reminds me of the time Poppa Burke was down at the mill and thought we oughta try to power the grinders from the engine on that old junk Chevy he kept settin' out around back. Sure it looked like a good idea, but when he got outta the hospital later that year, he admitted it didn't make no more sense than what yer talkin' about with this IE and "helper objects" and "registry" and stuff. Me? I'm a simple kind a feller and I'll settle for muh libraries the old fashioned way, thank you very much.
Maybe they'll starting working on standards compliance.
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The feature is only being included because IE is slipping in the browser share market.
They've slipped to a meager 90% of the market share. Woe is Microsoft.
"What, you mean we have to do a little work to maintain our monopoly? WORK? What part of "MONOPOLY" don't they understand? You don't have a monopoly so that you can do work! This sucks. Okay, give em tabbed browsing, that ought to shut them up."
Imply that they invented tabbed browsing and all the rest. They'll throw the word "innovation" around a lot.
Even more depressing: watch the MS fanbois eat it up.
I think the blue screen of death might be original.
There's no place like ~/
The 'system restore' feature of windows was detecting that MS Messenger was missing, and 'fixing it'. As only an incompetent fool would want to delete msn messenger.
I think if you turned off system restore you could delete that and the pinball game.
Just be glad you werent auto-reported to the department of homeland security for being subversive.
I would LOVE to see a robust tabbed implementation in Office, especially if (like Firefox) you could run multiple instances of a tabbed application.
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Excel has tabs. .
(that's sarcasm. I'm shooting for Funny here)
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'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key? I see Esk, Catarl, and Pig-Up. There doesn't seem to be any ANY key. Woo! All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a TAB.