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MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7

Posted by Zonk on from the the-end-times-are-coming dept.

Mike Savior writes "Eweek has a story stating that Microsoft is telling web site developers to prepare their sites for IE 7. From the article: 'One area that Microsoft has clearly articulated as being one in which developers can start work now to prepare for IE 7 involves the UA (user agent) string. First discussed in the company's Weblog in April, the code change prompted a reminder on Wednesday to developers, telling them that Microsoft continues to run across Web sites that are not expecting Version 7 of the browser, and urging them to test their UA strings. '"

11 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. oh pretty please... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    please make this one understand CSS...

  2. If you use Firefox... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the terrorists have already won.

  3. UA strings! by Freexe · · Score: 5, Funny
    Surely Microsoft have learnt by now that UA detection just doesn't cut it anymore.

    I really hope IE7 has improved its standards compatibility so I don't have to change to much of my code! (Hopefully none of it, if MS have done a good job)

    We can only cross our fingers and hope it will pass the acid2 test (at the very least have improved some of its css)!

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  4. blah by zippo01 · · Score: 0, Funny

    in other news, MS urges it's users to become more depended on it, and write unstandartized code. To once again tighting the hold on the IT word. Also. My person opion, i found it very time consuming to install IE in linux...

  5. uh, yeah.... by towndowner · · Score: 5, Funny

    my web site's been prepared for IE7 since 1996 or so.

  6. Nope... by ozamosi · · Score: 5, Funny

    As this article states, IE7 will not support CSS2. But come on! Give MS some slack! The CSS2 standard is only 7 years old. You must give them some time to implement the thing..!

  7. Re:CSS2 a flawed standard? by Dolda2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it would make the web platform-independent...

  8. The difference in User Agents by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 4, Funny

    IE6:
    Mozilla_4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)

    IE7:
    Firefox_1.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0)

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    1. Re:The difference in User Agents by gronofer · · Score: 2, Funny
      That would be:

      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (compatible; MSIE 7.0)

      Good luck to anybody still trying to use the UA string.

  9. Re:user agent by deadhammer · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you have against Sheryl anyways?

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  10. Re:MS can suck it! by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every, and I mean EVERY website I've designed since 1993 has been fully standards compliant. I have had to hack around IE since the mid-1990s and I'm sick of it. If IE7 is not standards compliant, TOUGH! I'm not changing a damn thing in my websites. I've checked my web server logs, a major percentage (more than 50) of browsers that hit my sites are standards compliant browsers. If users can download the latest FREE version of IE, then they can just as easily download the latest FREE standards compliant browser, and blow me! I'll quit before I have to change the SIX different websites, with over a thousand pages, that I built and maintain. IE users can get bent. Bitter? DAMN RIGHT! and with good reason too.

    Shortly after this outburst, Mr.Coward was fired from his job maintaining Microsoft's corporate website.

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