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Details On IE7 CSS Changes
writes "IE development team has released a list of CSS changes for IE7. Some of the notable new features are enabling :hover for all elements, and implementing position:fixed, and PNG transparency support. In addition, there is a long list of fixed bugs that plagued previous IE browsers for years. These changes (except for PNG transparency) only work under the <!DOCTYPE> switch to preserve compatibility with previous versions of IE."
that IE blog post is from August.
Old News.
Why would they when other people are already doing that
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
Installed IE7, found two problems within 10 minutes.
Does not work with SalesForce. Buttons do not render. They'll appear as a thin line without text.
IE7 does not work with our SharePoint / WSS v3 Beta (with R2 patch applied). Excel views crash. Works fine with IE6 and Firefox.
IE7, IMHO, is not ready for prime time. Even uninstalling is somewhat hidden. Hint: Control Panel, Add/Remove software, show Windows Updates, then find IE7, remove.
Only listing shortcomings where support is present in all or nearly all of Firefox, Opera, Safari; the majority of its competition.
But it's still a huge improvement over IE 6 standards-wise, and I think Microsoft did a pretty good job taking their ancient IE 6 code and doing something decent out of it. IE 7 adds support for all CSS selectors, and even handles the + selector better than Firefox, applying styles correctly in dynamic updates.
Maybe with IE 8 they will be even more competitive with the browsers of today, standards-wise.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
I'm surprised nobody has noticed this yet. If you load any page which contains frames, where the frames contain a large amount of HTML (or just text for that matter), the CPU will spike to 100% for some period of time that is related to the amount of HTML within the frame. I've tested this numerous times and it's a huge problem. IE6 does not show this issue at all. Go ahead, try it out. What's really interesting is while it's at 100% CPU usage, it will yield the CPU to other processes (if another process requires some CPU), but not to itself.
I hope they fix it, but something tells me they won't until I drum up some angry mobs.
... Firefox 2.0 is available on Mozilla's FTP.
o x/releases/2.0/
(I'm using it right now).
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef
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Have you been hiding under a moonrock? :-D IE6 supports PNGs binary transparency, IE7 finaly supports alpha channel as well.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
SP2 breaks lots of stuff. Besides, on my PC at work I don't go around installing system upgrades... If anything breaks it's my fault for not asking the appropriate department to do it.
Global warming is a cube.
It involves starting the setup procedure, and then replacing the hacked inf with the original before the cryptographic service (yes, it has to be in manual or automatic) can verify it. This is easier to do with a slow computer, of course (you may need to write a batch file if you run a modern processor). At least, this works to install WMP11 under Server 2003. What'll happen with IE7 under W2K is very much a mystery, though I'd be surprised if your explorer shell still worked after completing setup.
I'd try this in a VM first, if I were you.
No, it doesn't.
Too late ^^ However, your trick has worked. IE7 has installed itself on the system, asked me to reboot;
I did it, but then things started to go wrong.
It had a problem with IEDKCS32.DLL during the post reboot install. Now, explorer.exe crashes in shlwapi.dll, and more mysteriously, when I run iexplore.exe, a message box appears and tell me that iexplore.exe is not a valid win32 application...
So I sum up: no more IE (don't care, use seamonkey), but no more desktop also (for now?)... which is more embarassing!