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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes to mention a review of the latest Beta release for Internet Explorer 7 on Paul Thurrott's SuperSite. From the article: "While it's not enough to make me switch from Firefox yet--I still love certain Firefox features such as inline search--it's no longer an object of ridicule either. IE 7.0 Beta 3 includes huge functional and security advantages of IE 6 and is an absolute no brainer for anyone choosing to stick with IE. If you are an IE user, head over to the Microsoft Web site and pick up IE 7.0 Beta 3 today." ZDNet has some first impressions of the release as well.
IE7 may have all of the features Microsoft wanted it to have, but it still lacks reak XHTML support.
They've had how many years to get their shit together, but we're still stuck with 'sorry, our implementation is a hack even though we helped write the standard, maybe you'll get THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB implemented in 2015!
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should have read "anyone who uses Windows"
IE is still going to be bloated with legacy code and remain noncompliant with W3C standards. Regardless of the bells and whistles, it will only have an audience through user inertia or ignorance of alternatives like Opera or Firefox.
Memory usage: Less than firefox (not that that is difficult), more than opera
Back compat: Seems fine to me
ACID2 test: It fails miserably, just like every other browser out there
Transparent ping support: It has it
7+ crap: basically, sandboxing of IE and other Vista only features
ACID2 test: It fails miserably, just like every other browser out there
Except Konqueror, Safari and Opera 9.
Uh, Konqueror, Safari, and Opera all fully pass the Acid 2 test, and Firefox passes it on the reflow branch (a specific development branch). Thanks for playing.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
Hmmm, let's see:
"it's not enough to make me switch from Firefox"
"it's no longer an object of ridicule either"
"...for anyone choosing to stick with IE"
"If you are an IE user..."
"I still feel that most users would be better off with a more feature-packed browser like Firefox"
I'm not quite sure that "non-negative" is the same as "positive". I also need to look up on the definition for "lukewarm reception".
Yes, it does. Be sure to check the "Show updates" box in Add/Remove Programs.
Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Internet Explorer Beta 2.
Follow the wizard to uninstall.
You're welcome. -ed
So you see what had happened was....
Installed it yesterday on my old Dell laptop. Turns out it breaks slashdot layout, sidebars to be exact. WTF? I thought it was supposed to have better support for CSS, not worse!
Of course, the Lawful Evil solution would be to pop up a message saing "Invalid HTML document" if no DOCTYPE was present.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
When a website wants you to go through a bunch of hoops like WGA to download a file there's often a very simple way around that. You can probably find the URL on FileMirrors. If it's something popular like an IE beta it'll probably be on the front page so you won't even have to search. Oh, and here's a link to IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe.
For more information about uninstalling Internet Explorer 7 Betas, see the following MSDN Blog post:
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/29/65003
-Goose.
Orwell was an optimist.
And Netscape was a 'Pay For' browser. In much the same way that Opera is now.
Netscape was licensed as a 'pay for' browser, but it was purely by license. Most people (and businesses) ran the freely downloadable version and very, very few people ever paid for Netscape (unless they bought it with a book). It's like saying that WinZip is a 'pay for' product -- what you're saying is factual, but in practice most people who use it aren't paying customers.
Netscape's business model was to sell server software, not browsers. IIS and Apache did them more damage than IE did.
Also, Opera's completely free now.
And the copy of Opera 9 I'm running now has been on the go for the past 4 days, I'm a 'heavy user' and it's seen some action.. yet it's still hovering at ~160mb usage.
If you take into consideration how much I use it compared to the other programs and how much I value it in my day to day business, I'm perfectly happy setting aside 5-10% of my systems memory. If it were to start climbing into the mid 300-400mb range *cough*firefox*cough* then I'd start to get concerned.
Microsoft sycophant? You obviously haven't read some of his reviews. Despite what you may think, not all of his outlooks on various Microsoft products are positive.
This bug has been known by IE7's developers for at least 1/2 weeks, and in fact they have discussed it with slashdot (or at least tried to). See this for the technical explanation.
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