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Will Internet Explorer 7 Have Any Impact?
John Seyton asks: "A recent posting regarding Internet Explorer 7 has me pondering what impact this next release will have on the web market. Firefox has fought hard to make a small dent in Internet Explorer's armor, to the point that we can browse most of the web with no loss of functionality, yet if Internet Explorer 7 recaptures a sizable chunk of that market share, web authors might once again create offensive 'please upgrade to Internet Explorer' web pages. Based upon the known features, what does the Slashdot community think the impact of Internet Explorer 7 will be on the web in general? Will we be forced to live a two-browser life once again?"
As long as you choose to use something other than IE, you will always live a two-browser life. Microsoft has the vast majority of the web browser market, and there's no reason to believe that will change in the near future. Microsoft has also been "embracing and extending" various standards in ways that are incompatible with other browsers for at least the past 10 years, and there's no reason to think that's going to stop either.
IE7 will not shake up the browser market in any significant way one way or the other, things will remain pretty much as they are now.
Dude,
When my friends/family/buddies buy a PC with windows on it, the VERY FIRST thing I do when they ask me to "Please fix it it's hopelessly broken" involves Ubuntu and a reformatting of the hard drive. Consequently, IE goes Poof.
"Piter, too, is dead."