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Helpful Stuff For IE7?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forewarned-is-forearmed dept.

Cycloid Torus asks: "IE7 is with us. It asked to be installed as a Critical Update this morning, so I decided to find out more about what was going on and if there are issues to this new and official piece of Windows XP. I found a site of known IE7 issues to be of use. Are there other sites with solid information which can help the wary from getting charred with this upgrade?"

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  1. yes... by xiao_haozi · · Score: 2, Funny

    the uninstaller?!? i kid i kid... i am interested to see what kind of run this gives compared to the recent news about ff2 issues, etc. I think if ie7 had some great plugin base it could gain back some of those in the middle ground----

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  2. Don't update. by neurosis101 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a web developer, somehow they found a way to make IE7 even worse than IE6.

    All that PR that they had with the IE developer interview here on /. has not convinced ANYONE. He spent the whole time about talking how they listened to developers to determined what they want. Last time I checked I was getting a paycheck and you've done nothing, NOTHING to help.

    Want some examples? One person brought up CSS compliance (I don't care WHICH CSS standard you pick, but pick one for chrissakes) and he said, "oh developers don't want that." Well, I do! Do you have any idea how irritating it is that IE and FF treat margins and padding differently for making even the most simple layouts?

    And as a warning, IE7 is even worse about page caching than IE6. I had IE7RC1 installed and I actually uninstalled it because it was taking me 4 times longer to do any development. More specifically, if you get a hard XML error (which you undoubtably will do if you do any AJAX for example) its near impossible to get it not to load a cached copy, even with clearing the cache. I'm not sure what causes this but IE7 doesn't seem to respect the clear cache command like IE6 does.

    I can live without tabs in IE; if I want to browse the web for personal reading I'll use FF anyway.

  3. Consistent CSS... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just modified the CSS file for my website to fix all the crazy bugs in IE6. Loaded up Vista in a VM to take a look at IE7 and all the bugs are still there. Microsoft could have gotten their CSS support to be consistent between versions, or, better yet, correctly display validated XHMTL like everyone else. Honestly, I wish I could kick IE6/7 goodbye.

    1. Re:Consistent CSS... by moranar · · Score: 2, Informative

      Is your doctype strict or transitional? I seem to remember IE 7 will only do "the right thing" if the doctype is stated as strict, so you might want to try that.

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    2. Re:Consistent CSS... by earthbound+kid · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, he's serving XHTML 1.0, which can be served as text/html if necessary, not 1.1, which cannot.

  4. not sure about the install warning by acvh · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The user will see a large window advising that IE7 is available to install, and the user will have three choices; install, don't Install, or install later."

    I installed XP tonight and when I checked for updates there was, in the midst of 60 or so others, an IE7 entry. I unchecked it and was told that I had disabled a "critical update" and was advised to reenable it. I didn't, so I don't know if there would have been this other option he mentioned.

  5. Re:Helpful thing by VincenzoRomano · · Score: 2, Funny

    It depends on your idea of "help". To be more precise:
    F1 is a hint
    ALT+F4 is a solution

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