IE 7.0 Beta 2 Available to the Public 422
spyrochaete writes "Microsoft has just made available their latest beta preview build of their Internet Explorer 7.0 web browser. New features such as tabbed browsing and RSS subscription are summarized in an animated tour. MS welcomes feedback at the Internet Explorer 7 newsgroup." There's also a Channel 9 interview available, as well as commentary on the IEBlog. Update: 01/31 19:58 GMT by Z : prostoalex wrote in with a link to a review of the release at PC Magazine.
ACID2 test? (Score:3, Interesting)
Ad blocker? (Score:3, Interesting)
Looks nice but.... (Score:2, Interesting)
IE Is Still an Alzheimer's Patient.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Preview tab is sweet (Score:5, Interesting)
Just FYI (Score:5, Interesting)
http://207.68.142.106/contoso/enroll_auth.html [207.68.142.106]
Search ARIN WHOIS for: 207.68.142.106
OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
NetRange: 207.68.128.0 - 207.68.207.255
CIDR: 207.68.128.0/18, 207.68.192.0/20
NetName: MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-BLK
NetHandle: NET-207-68-128-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
I always wanted to see Microsoft blacklist itself in one of it's intricate series of patch releases, security alerts, and spam filters. Now my life is complete.
Doubt I'll switch back (Score:3, Interesting)
But with something like a web browser, I get a choice. I held off on switching to Firefox. I tried some earlier version and while they had nice features, there were too many issues, I wouldn't switch. Shortly before the 1.0 release, I finally made the switch. The two most compelling features for me were the tabbed browsing and the keyworded bookmarks (which I use ALL the time).
I don't know if IE 7 has the keyworded bookmarks and without it (or something similar), I wouldn't even consider it. But the fact remains that without some compelling new features, I doubt I will switch and from what I've seen so far, there's just nothing like that.
I suspect a lot of regular users are like that. Without a really compelling reason, they won't switch. I suspect IE 7.0 will fail to turn the tide of people switching to Firefox.
Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:first look - running dialogue (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm a little surprised. I remember a story several months back saying that IE7 would only work on Vista. Is this just a special build with limited features, or will we see IE7 be backwards compatible? More importantly, I'm dying to know if there has been any improvement to the CSS support since beta 1.
Re:Once again... (Score:2, Interesting)
Can MS say the same?
Why should MS care? (Score:2, Interesting)
Or a new OS?
Fixed attribute (Score:4, Interesting)
Configure Clear Type properly (Score:3, Interesting)
Link to online cleartype calibration site:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tun
Re:first look - running dialogue (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, it's horrible. It submits every URL you try to access to MS for verification. Same with the Google toolbar in fact, except the latter is even worse because it submits it over an unencrypted connection. These anti-phishing efforts break the current semantics of the web. These efforts are seriously misguided and truly disheartening, particularly when there are perfectly good anti-phishing tools that do things right [mozilla.org].
Default Search engine (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:No need to use ACID... (Score:3, Interesting)
I mean that properties are somehow leaking out of their context. If you think you know a better way to express it, then don't bicker but say how! It's like this:
<div class="c1">
...
</div>
<div class="c1"> <h1>Heading</h1> </div>
The h1 is displayed with the preceding div's CSS properties. The page in question validates with the W3C validator and is displayed as intended by Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.
Re:ACID2 test? (Score:2, Interesting)
http://kim.biyn.com/files/images/konqueror_3.5_pa
Also: Google Maps works just fine in Konqueror as well (a hell of a lot better than in Firefox) if you spoof Safari's user agent. Just FYI.
My take (Score:4, Interesting)
The Bad:
Bottom line: There isn't enough here to get me to switch from Firefox (or Safari :p), and if they don't reign in the memory usage I doubt I'll even
install it, but when I have to use IE on a friend or co-worker's machine, I'll be
very glad if they have IE7 installed.