Microsoft releases IE 7
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Topic: Microsoft releases IE 7
Posted By: iSec
Subject: Microsoft releases IE 7
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 1:03pm
Final Version of Internet Explorer 7 Now AvailableIt's the first major new version of the venerable Microsoft browser since 2001.http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127554-c,internetexplorer/article.html - http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127554-c,internetexplorer/article.html ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 1:21pm
I have been useing the version in Vista but it still sucks, Firefox 2 P****s all over it  Hopefully eventually this will wipe out a few of those horrible CSS hacks. ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 1:40pm
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In two weeks time it will be a automatic update http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/97534.html - http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/97534.html Seems that there are problems already! http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/98024.html - http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/98024.html |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 1:52pm
dang it... so what is the magic that the software giant can't do while Mozilla could? How do they train their developers? ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
pjb007 wrote:Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 7:28pm
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Now's the time to download the releases version and check your sites.
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 11:03pm
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While I haven't used IE 7 yet, I do hope that it's worth using. I may switch back if it's better. The RSS thing may just do it for me - we'll see though. I wonder what's going to happen here to the web in Korea. Pretty much every site here is "IE only", so I'm expecting the entire "Korean Internet" to basically break in half. I'll have no sympathy either. Coding specifically for IE is just nuts. It may just serve as a wakeup call. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 6:49pm
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Can't get the wwf rss feed to work in ie7 although it's ok in ff. Am I doing something simple and stupid? -------------
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 7:37pm
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It works fine for me, IE7 has it's own built in XSLT style sheet fir RSS Feeds so it will look different to the one that Firefox's uses.
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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 9:46pm
| Works fine for me too. |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 3:36am
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i still hate IE and will probably never use it again
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 9:11am
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I still hate it, I wanted to download it and do some testing though, but it still seems naff, just a new interface, and some bad fuzzy font thing going on. I was hoping that they had sorted out the shockingly bad, totally non-standard, code that it's RTE produced, but it appears to still be awful. The RTE's continuity is awful, it still produces HTML tags with a mix of upper and lower case, with and without quote tag eg:- <IMG scr=myoicture.jpg WIDTH="10" hieght=2> I was hoping that Microsoft's press release that IE7 would be compliant with standards that it also meant the code it produced would be as well. Seems most of what they have done is taken interface ideas from Firefox and Opera and slapped them onto IE. For a first major release in 6 years, I don't think it shows Microsoft's commitment to the Internet, and no wonder browsers like Firefox are taking away IE's market share, which it only has because they bundle it with Windows and most users still don't realise there is an alternative. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 11:44am
| I'm not impressed either... and it wiped off all my remembered passwords in both IE AND FrontPage... phooey. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 1:44pm
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Hopefully Firefox 2 will continue to ruin IE's dominance!
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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 2:11pm
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Be careful with iespell check. I just lost a huge post on another forum because of the new security setting.
It seems once it is approved it works okay though.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 3:33pm
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I think Firefox 2's built in in-line spelling checking on the fly beats IeSpell hands down. I think the spell checker in Firefox is certainly the killer app for anyone who uses forums etc. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 3:44pm
Yeah, have you noticed my spelling has become a lot better? 
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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 3:53pm
  
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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 3:55pm
I haven't installed the firefox one since I'm still a die hard IE user. But I have to say, ieSpell is better than MS Office I think. It offers suggestions when Office has no ideas.
But yes... these spell checkers are a must have for people who use forums.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 5:36pm
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But the thing that beats IEspell in Firefox, is that Firefox's spell checker will underline misspelled words in red as you type. It even does this in the RTE.
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Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 5:48pm
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This may help with the fuzzy fonts http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/03/524367.aspx - http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/03/524367.aspx |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 5:59pm
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Whats really annoying about the clear type setting is that it uses a seperate switch to windows, So even if you have it turned off in windows it may still e on in IE7 and vice versa
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Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 8:32pm
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Thats just stupid, in IE7 they should have linked it in to the Windows system so that there is one switch for both. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 10:14pm
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Thats precisley what anyone with half a brain would have done lol
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 11:04pm
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I'm going to have to depart from the crowd on ClearType. I think it's a good thing to have it optional like it is in IE7.
If you use ClearType, you should have noticed that in some applications it causes color distortion and blurring at times. So while I may not want it in general, with IE it works quite well, and the option to turn it on is very nice.
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Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 12:47am
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Can you have IE7 and IE6 work on the one PC or does IE7 overwrite/upgrade IE6? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 1:10am
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IE7 replaces 6, but if you backi it out, or go to a restore point, you winf up with 6 again. There's one site that offers stand-alone versions of every IE browser back to 3.x. At one time, I was running 4, 5.5, and 6. On the IE newsgroup someone was mentioning that they were running 6 and 7.
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 1:38am
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I have virtual PC installed... I test all newly released softwares on it prior to putting those softwares on my productive system... ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: Freon22
Date Posted: 28 October 2006 at 4:45am
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You may not be able open some pdf files with IE7. Before when I was using IE6 all of these pdf files worked. Just tryed to open some of them and got blank pages. I did a google search and only found a few comments on this bug. So I downloaded Adobe reader 7.0 and it works now. So if you have any problems opening up any pdf files you may need to upgrade Adode Reader also. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 10:13pm
Just an update on this... evolt.org has ie browsers back to 3.0 as stand-alon zip files. You download the zip, and run the browser from within the zip - e.g. for ie6, run iexplorer.exe from the zip. http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone - http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone -------------
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 10:18pm
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Nice fine Dypers. As i'm using Vista i'm stuck with IE7 only and really do need to test projects out on IE6 and down ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 05 November 2006 at 1:59am
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I have IE6 on a w2k machine, but I really need both on the laptop. I do a lot of work for corporates and at least half of them are W2k/IE6. Interestingly enough, IE7 is starting to become the driver for many corporates to go to XP or Vista. They really like the expanded lock-down features they can implement as policy for IE7. Biggest reason most corporates I know of stay away from FireFox is that it's missing lock-down features. -------------
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