MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate

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Posted by timothy on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:11PM from the sincerest-form dept.

Quantum Jim writes "InternetNews.com reports that a major upgrade for Microsoft Internet Explorer may be imminent. Apparently in response to the recent mass migration away from MSIE, top Microsoft developers have been soliciting for improvements in the old browser at a web log and at Channel 9, an aggregate journal previously discussed by /.. InternetNews.com speculates that improvements could possibly include support for tabbed browsing, better security, more PNG and CSS compliance, and RSS integration (which Firefox and Opera Mail already support). Go competition!"

MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate

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Secret to the fast release revealed! (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:12PM (#9916384)

It will be based on the Mozilla source!

Yeah (Score:4, Funny)

by stecoop ( 759508 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:12PM (#9916386) Journal

MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate... But I use Mozilla and the bell rang a long time ago.

How is this possible?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)

by jjh37997 ( 456473 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:18PM (#9916419) Homepage

I thought IE and the Window OS were so tightly integrated that they were virtually the same thing? Do you mean IE was actually a separate program all along?

Re:Browser Wars II: Mozilla Strikes Back? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:32PM (#9916517)

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Re:And the standings are.... (Score:5, Funny)

by foidulus ( 743482 ) * writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:39PM (#9916572)

My prediction: lynx will make a comeback and overtake them all!

Star wars quote.. (Score:3, Funny)

by ShadowRage ( 678728 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:45PM (#9916604) Homepage Journal

Strike me down... ah fuck it, you all know the quote.

Marketing won't like this... (Score:4, Funny)

by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @08:57PM (#9916673)

Since they integrated it, upgrades to IE become upgrades to the OS. I'm sure marketing would much rather hold out till longhorn hits. It'd make thier job of selling a bloated, complex upgrade that much easier. I tell you, I wouldn't want to be the guy who had to come up with reasons why you should upgrade to Windows ME.

Re:Call Me Clueless (Score:5, Funny)

by boredMDer ( 640516 ) writes: <pmohr+slashdot@boredmder.com> on Sunday August 08, 2004 @09:29PM (#9916851)

'Anyone who uses Internet Explorer is using Windows'

blanquita:~ pmohr$ uname -a
Darwin blanquita.local 7.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

blanquita:~ pmohr$ ls -l /Applications/|grep Internet\ Explorer
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 31 Jul 21:44 Internet Explorer.app

Hmm?

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @09:43PM (#9916912)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

CSS Positioning Problems Are Solved! (Score:3, Funny)

by Da VinMan ( 7669 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @09:46PM (#9916921)

Just use HTML tables!!!!

*duck*

(No flames please, yes I'm kidding. Sort of.)

Re:Yeah (Score:4, Funny)

by Rasta Prefect ( 250915 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @10:04PM (#9916999)

I'm not sure why some enterprising mozilla/firefox nut hasn't made an activex plug-in for IE that causes the browser to render all pages using a "gecko plug-in". For example, if I came to slashdot (using IE like I normally do) and the page prompted me to install the "Gecko HTML rendering engine", I'd do it. Just like all those the masses that install spyware because they don't know any better.

I'm amazed I never thought of this. This would be _far_ less work than messing with CSS2 until it works in IE.

Re:Secret to the fast release revealed! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @10:22PM (#9917085)

Actually, it will be based on Duke Nukem Forever code!

Re:I do not think that word means what you think. (Score:2, Funny)

by DaZedAdAm ( 131819 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @10:28PM (#9917127)

Well I was going to make a comment making fun of "unclear, ambiguous" by saying something like:

"To the point that there are so many unclear, ambiguous, redundant, repetitive, redundant, repetitive ..."

But now I'm worried I'll be wrong about something and someone will call me out on it.

Re:Secret to the fast release revealed! (Score:2, Funny)

by hacker_wanabe ( 803878 ) writes: on Sunday August 08, 2004 @11:23PM (#9917406)

... that improvements could possibly include support for tabbed browsing ...
Somebody go register a a patent on tabbed browsing! hurry up !

Re:FireFox (Score:3, Funny)

by dolphinling ( 720774 ) writes: on Monday August 09, 2004 @12:39AM (#9917741) Homepage Journal

it's perfectly possible to build a "standards-compliant" site that doesn't show a pixel in Mozilla.

You mean like:

<html><title> </title><p></p>

?

Now THAT is fast (Score:3, Funny)

by Infonaut ( 96956 ) writes: <infonaut@gmail.com> on Monday August 09, 2004 @12:46AM (#9917765) Homepage Journal

Whoa, fasten your seatbelts, folks! A product that may beat Longhorn to market sure must be coming out soon. ;-)

Re:Corporations Sucks (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 09, 2004 @01:14AM (#9917849)

Quote:

As Schroeder puts it "So don't bother installing a Carnot engine in your car; while it would increase your gas mileage, you would be passed on the highway by pedestrians."

Or to put it another way...

Shall we take the Car? Not!

I goofed! (Score:3, Funny)

by Quantum Jim ( 610382 ) writes: <jfcst24@@@yahoo...com> on Monday August 09, 2004 @01:17AM (#9917862) Homepage Journal

I agree, I submitted a bad link. I was referring to the recent loss of MSIE's market share [washingtontimes.com] to Firefox and other alternatives.

Sorry!

What a great day! Thanks Microsoft! (Score:2, Funny)

by Lisandro ( 799651 ) writes: on Monday August 09, 2004 @01:52AM (#9917996)

This is great, and just in time, because Expl... Ooooh, lookie! A flying pig!

Re:Call Me Clueless (Score:4, Funny)

by kikta ( 200092 ) writes: on Monday August 09, 2004 @02:19AM (#9918088)

[kiktajm@devildog2 bin]$ uname -a Linux devildog2 2.6.5-7.104-default #1 Wed Jul 28 16:42:13 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [kiktajm@devildog2 bin]$ ll Iexplorer lrwxrwxrwx 1 kiktajm users 9 2004-08-09 02:16 Iexplorer -> /dev/null

I crack me up...

Re:Article summary--uh, "recent mass migration?" (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 09, 2004 @03:12AM (#9918233)

minus the sex.
you mean minus the cute weather girl?

Re:OT: spreading FUD (Score:5, Funny)

by Refrag ( 145266 ) writes: on Monday August 09, 2004 @10:35AM (#9919939) Homepage

"If Doom 3 is so important to you, please pay for it, ID software will have more money, they will spend it, butterfly-effect."

Exactly. John Carmack will buy a new Ferrari. One of the Ferrari factory workers will get a bonus and decide to strike out on his own pizza shop. A business man from America will happen upon his shop while on vacation and persuade him to bring his pizza to America and start a new franchise. Enzo Pizza will invade the market with a higher quality, lower price pizza that will enliven competition in the pizza delivery market. A younger gamer playing at a Doom 3 LAN party will order one of these pizzas while saving $1.73 over the pizza he would have bought from Papa Johns.

Everyone wins.

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Secret to the fast release revealed! (Score:4, Funny)

Yeah (Score:4, Funny)

How is this possible?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Browser Wars II: Mozilla Strikes Back? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:And the standings are.... (Score:5, Funny)

Star wars quote.. (Score:3, Funny)

Marketing won't like this... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Call Me Clueless (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

CSS Positioning Problems Are Solved! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Yeah (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Secret to the fast release revealed! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I do not think that word means what you think. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Secret to the fast release revealed! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:FireFox (Score:3, Funny)

Now THAT is fast (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Corporations Sucks (Score:1, Funny)

I goofed! (Score:3, Funny)

What a great day! Thanks Microsoft! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Call Me Clueless (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Article summary--uh, "recent mass migration?" (Score:1, Funny)

Re:OT: spreading FUD (Score:5, Funny)

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