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Microsoft Drops Hints on IE8

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

benuski writes "Lost in the hype about Microsoft's new Siverlight platform, there has been some information surfacing about IE8. It will include improvements in RSS, CSS, and AJAX support, and will follow Firefox 3 in supporting microformats. Also, the developers are going to try and improve UI customization, which is one of the main criticisms of IE7."

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  1. Ars Link Broken by anaesthetica · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the link to the IE Blog posting:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/04/19/what-t o-expect-from-ie-at-mix07.aspx

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  2. Re:Extensions by Mortlath · · Score: 5, Informative
    After a simple search, I found plenty of ad blocking extensions for IE:

    • http://www.3bsoftware.com/products/adblocker.asp
    • http://www.adscleaner.com/
    • http://shareme.com/download/ads-filter.html
    • ...

    It seems to me that only 1 enterprising individual needs to make a free one for IE. (there might already be one. I didn't do a through search)

    Until Microsoft figures out a way for people to create extensions easily, without having to know C++ and COM/ActiveX, they're not going to get people like me back.

    Is C++ and COM/ActiveX so hard to use?

  3. Re:Extensions - adblock for any browser by flacco · · Score: 3, Informative
    run the privoxy proxy and make it the proxy server for all your browsers. it does ad filtering at the proxy level.

    wait a fucking minute. did i just make IE more attractive?

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  4. Re:When will they learn by spockrock · · Score: 3, Informative

    ok first off no, there is no 64bit plugin for windows either. All it is a 32bit browser with 32bit plugin. Again I posted a link to the adobe knowledge base which clearly states there are no 64 bit versions of the plugin for any OS. Also firefox is only available from what I can tell only as a 32bit binary from the mozilla site. In linux you have two options, either run the plugin through ndiswrapper, or you run a 32bit binary of firefox and the plugin as normal. You can find out how to on any linux distros wiki, such as the ubuntu wiki.