Comments on: IE7 Improvements and Bug Tracking

By: Christopher V. Kimball

Christopher V. Kimball — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:51:57 +0000

I provide a charitable site based on XSLT and JavaScript displaying a foreign character set and providing RSS feeds. At one time, IE6/Windows X provided better operation and rendering. Firefox progressed so that in the last two months Firefox began to beat IE6 in usage. In the last 30 days 47% of the viewers used Firefox versus 22% with IE6, even though 74% of the viewers are using Windows operating systems.

Today I tried IE7 beta 2 on a borrowed XP Windows system. (MS won’t release IE7 beta on my Windows 2000.) Hard to see any improvement over Firefox and the built-in RSS feed viewer won’t handle the foreign text properly. In the future my site will be targeted to Firefox, with IE7 taking a second level of support.

By: Lon

Lon — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:53:27 +0000

I downloaded and installed IE7, beta 2, about half an hour ago, and quite frankly, it stinks. Except for the shiny new interface, I can’t figure out what everyone is raving about. It has crashed on every single attempt that I have made to open a link in a new tab OR a new window. Thus, I have submitted approximately 15 reports already. I wonder how many reports they will receive before they fix the problem. Needless to say, I have little desire to try anything else in this new version. I’ll be waiting for the next fix before I use it again. Back to a browser that works…

By: Masklinn

Masklinn — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:42:12 +0000

Eric, I don’t know whether or not it’s intentional, but what’s with the CSS-hidden link-spam in the middle of your article?

Does appear raw in bloglines too, or when browsing when CSS off…

By: » Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com

Wed, 03 May 2006 09:55:38 +0000

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By: Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:42:06 +0000

IE7 will be very good. Firefox is now at 25%. I think IE7 will stop firefox. Actually, I prefer IE6 while surfing. There is something wrong with firefox for end user. I was a dedicated user of Netscape 4 when IE3 times. It takes a long time to switch IE4.

By: Nathan DeGruchy

Nathan DeGruchy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:20:19 +0000

I’m wary.

I’d like to see an MSIE that works better with standards-compliant, semantically marked up pages… however, they’ve burned those bridges long ago. How am I supposed to trust a smiling face of some developer at Microsoft when the company as a whole was charged with being an illegal monopoly not too long ago?

Call me paranoid or a Microsoft-hater, but as long they continue their ‘our way or the highway’ motto with the majority of their products (looking at you WMA). I don’t give them any credibility.

By: Isaac Lin

Isaac Lin — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:49:02 +0000

MS also have to prove by deed that this won"t be a one-off gesture, and that they"ll keep up the pace.

Looking at a somewhat similar case in the past, Microsoft C++ compiler's support for the C++ standard lagged the other major compilers for a while. When MS decided to catch up, they pushed ahead to implement close to full support of the standard (by some measures, better compliance than the other major compiler vendors).

By: NathanB

NathanB — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:44:07 +0000

What I want to know is, will the hack to run multiple versions of IE at once still work or will we have to go back to the days of running Virtual PC to test layouts? If not, we are all in for a world of suck.

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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Heartwarming — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:41:18 +0000

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By: Bogdan Szczurek

Bogdan Szczurek — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:40:14 +0000

Sure it's not always so! :) As long as it serves improvement of technology as a whole—not stopping users and devs from getting more reasonable solutions.

By: sierkbornemann.de ::: Weblog

sierkbornemann.de ::: Weblog — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:38:26 +0000

IE7 Beta2

Recently, Microsoft has published the Second Public Beta of the forthcomig and long awaiting Internet Explorer 7, addressed to developers and web developers to test it.

By: TSDBlog » IE7 Will Support :hover on All Elements - The Site Design Blog

TSDBlog » IE7 Will Support :hover on All Elements - The Site Design Blog — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:22:02 +0000

[...] w, keep using :hover just for your links, OK? This is posted about over at CSS Insider and Meyer Web, too, so you don’t need to pin [...]

By: Olly

Olly — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:14:24 +0000

when they"ll get there it"s more than possible that they"ll start to add “extensions”

That's not always a bad thing though, is it? XMLHttpRequest anybody?

By: Martijn

Martijn — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:46:46 +0000

New slogan for Microsoft?
“Support IE7 development, use Firefox!”

By: Ian Adams

Ian Adams — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:10:34 +0000

I think that IE7 is a good thing. It’s totally not going to be the best browser out there. I still think its rendering engine is ugly as sin, but the fact that they’re pushing IE forward is absolutely good for the web. If they can come out with something that’s “just good enough” for the next couple years (or however long it takes for IE8), then it will make every web designer’s job much easier. The sooner that we have to stop writing hacks and workarounds for IE5-6, due to lack of a user base, the better.