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Interview with Microsoft Exec on IE7 and RSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the down-to-earth dept.

AvianFlugelhorn writes "BetaNews has posted an interview with Gary Schare, Director of IE Product Management, which touches on the changes coming in IE7, Firefox's growth, and how Microsoft will bring RSS to the mainstream. It's interesting to see Schare become more humble since a November 2004 interview, when he questioned whether Firefox could attract more than just early adopters. Now, Microsoft says: 'we respect the work that the Firefox guys have done.' Schare also admits problems with ActiveX and explains why Microsoft will revolutionize RSS." Couple of days old, but still interesting.

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  1. Article from 2004!? by brewer13210 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the article: "November 15, 2004, 10:53 AM"

    Isn't this really old news, even for slashdot?

  2. css by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    If IE7 has fixed Microsoft's truly dreadful CSS support I might be interested. On a recent web project we kept tag of the time quite carefully. Roughly 75% of the web designer effort was spent getting IE to render CSS files properly. Key bugs included:

    Random borders that have no reason to be there.

    Bugs that affect hover sensitivity on css layers

    Min and max width settings ignored

    and the dreaded 'hasLayout' property which gets an excellent write up here.
    IE. Just say no