Internet Explorer 7 Announced

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:21 pm

Oh great, another POS we have to code for now. Notice how the source is Computer Crime Research Center.

Yes, Internet Explorer *IS* a crime! People must switch to firefox to avoid the plague that is IE.

http://www.crime-research.org/news/02.03.2005/969/

Microsoft stirred up developers across the Web yesterday by announcing that it would release Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP, with beta versions becoming available by the middle of this year. A close look at the announcement, however, suggests little or no work will be done on the rendering engine, the bane of Web designers everywhere.

Solid information about just what will be in IE7 is hard to come by. My gut feeling is that the people who will be building IE7 got the news around the same time we did, and they're still scrambling to define just what they can do in the time available.

The one thing we can be sure of at this stage is that Microsoft will market IE7 as a more secure browser, in the same vein as the Windows XP SP2 update. The intention seems to be to stem the flow of users to alternatives like Mozilla Firefox.

The question on the minds of Web designers everywhere: will Microsoft sneak in any improvements to the way the browser displays Web pages at the same time? At this stage, there is nothing to suggest they will, but we can always hope!

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:38 pm

What is really the difference between all these IE versions? I mean, like AOL. All AOL does is add a few fancy looking eye catchers and make the version number higher, or add something like "Optimized". Fuckin' pathetic people.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:28 pm

Only difference is that they all render html differently.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:22 pm

you should start an anti IE community with a ton of webmasters and all code your sites so it looks awsome in every browser and horrible in IE and promote other browsers

that would move alot of users off IE given enuff sites do it lol

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:13 pm

Unfortunatly it would not work, since all the IE users (sadly over 60% of users) would just complain that the site is horrible and never come back again etc... Otherwise everyone would be doing it.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:06 pm

but guys this ie sees the web pages fine. even if it was made for another type of browser i have not see a bad looking page yet.

and by the way the new ie 7 is said to have tab browsing in it.

that was said last fall that they were going to be adding that in to it.

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:10 pm

rovingcowboy wrote: but guys this ie sees the web pages fine. even if it was made for another type of browser i have not see a bad looking page yet.

and by the way the new ie 7 is said to have tab browsing in it.

that was said last fall that they were going to be adding that in to it.

They really want to compete with Mozilla, huh? Freakin IDIOTS!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:15 pm

I bet you the first security flaw will enable an attacker to execute malicious code remotely.

We sure don't here that about firefox, and if we do it get's fixed pretty quick. No service pack and patching, but an actual new release.

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