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Microsoft Releases IE7 Beta 3
Kawahee writes "Microsoft has released IE7 Beta 3 to the public. From TechNet Flash: 'As a result of customer feedback, IE7 Beta 3 contains some feature changes in addition to the planned reliability, compatibility, and security improvements. If you've previously installed a beta of IE7, you should uninstall it before installing this release.' For the first time, the Administrator's Kit for Internet Explorer 7 is also available, which is described as 'the most efficient way to deploy and manage Web-based solutions.'"
You have to wonder just who MS has working on IE. I see the project team as being in a rarely visited far-flung part of the basement, with cobwebs hanging around the doorways and light fittings. The team, all in their late fifties, pasty-white having not been above ground for years are hunched over their MMX pentiums testing their work on a 3-PC LAN running Windows 95 and wondering when the higher-ups will eventually get around to giving them a modem.
If only someone would pop down there and tell them about tabbed browsing and other minor details like security and malicious scripts.
while sco {
wget -O
}
Sorry, I had no other point of reference. That's just what I happen to do when I should be working but... I'm not.
I couldn't care less about tabs or extensions or UI enhancements or any of that crap. What I care about is standards implementation and so long as IE ignores things like the box model and does a piss poor job of doing... well... anything... I have to participate in web skullduggery to get pages to work right.
The problem with your analogy to Write is that people using Write aren't limiting people using better programs. Their consumption of mediocrity isn't stifling the entire word processing industry. IE is and does. I can live with the box model being messed up, all it takes is an extra div to work around that, but if they haven't fixed a plethora of other problems then... I guess I'm going to continue to hack around their bullshit and sit here and bitch about it on Slashdot.
You're right and I know. I'm still coping with the emotional trauma of yesteryear. *sobs*
Now if they could just get list items to not include automatic margins if there is whitespace between them. Perhaps even PNG 24 support. *sigh*