Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Reviewed 221
An anonymous reader writes to mention a review of the latest Beta release for Internet Explorer 7 on Paul Thurrott's SuperSite. From the article: "While it's not enough to make me switch from Firefox yet--I still love certain Firefox features such as inline search--it's no longer an object of ridicule either. IE 7.0 Beta 3 includes huge functional and security advantages of IE 6 and is an absolute no brainer for anyone choosing to stick with IE. If you are an IE user, head over to the Microsoft Web site and pick up IE 7.0 Beta 3 today." ZDNet has some first impressions of the release as well.
Not Feature Complete (Score:5, Informative)
IE7 may have all of the features Microsoft wanted it to have, but it still lacks reak XHTML support [msdn.com].
They've had how many years to get their shit together, but we're still stuck with 'sorry, our implementation is a hack even though we helped write the standard, maybe you'll get THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB implemented in 2015!
microsoft users (Score:2, Informative)
WGAS (Score:2, Informative)
Re:News for nerds! Ahah (Score:2, Informative)
Back compat: Seems fine to me
ACID2 test: It fails miserably, just like every other browser out there
Transparent ping support: It has it
7+ crap: basically, sandboxing of IE and other Vista only features
Re:News for nerds! Ahah (Score:5, Informative)
Except Konqueror, Safari and Opera 9.
Re:News for nerds! Ahah (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Anyone have (Score:2, Informative)
Very positive! (Score:4, Informative)
Hmmm, let's see:
"it's not enough to make me switch from Firefox"
"it's no longer an object of ridicule either"
"...for anyone choosing to stick with IE"
"If you are an IE user..."
"I still feel that most users would be better off with a more feature-packed browser like Firefox"
I'm not quite sure that "non-negative" is the same as "positive". I also need to look up on the definition for "lukewarm reception".
Re:my review (Score:1, Informative)
Yes, it does. Be sure to check the "Show updates" box in Add/Remove Programs.
Re:my review (Score:3, Informative)
Follow the wizard to uninstall.
You're welcome. -ed
It breaks the new slashdot layout (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Anyone have (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, the Lawful Evil solution would be to pop up a message saing "Invalid HTML document" if no DOCTYPE was present.
Use FileMirrors to find download URLs (Score:5, Informative)
Re:my review (Score:2, Informative)
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/29/65003
-Goose.
Re:a finer compliment (Score:5, Informative)
Netscape was licensed as a 'pay for' browser, but it was purely by license. Most people (and businesses) ran the freely downloadable version and very, very few people ever paid for Netscape (unless they bought it with a book). It's like saying that WinZip is a 'pay for' product -- what you're saying is factual, but in practice most people who use it aren't paying customers.
Netscape's business model was to sell server software, not browsers. IIS and Apache did them more damage than IE did.
Also, Opera's completely free now.
Re:News for nerds! Ahah (Score:2, Informative)
If you take into consideration how much I use it compared to the other programs and how much I value it in my day to day business, I'm perfectly happy setting aside 5-10% of my systems memory. If it were to start climbing into the mid 300-400mb range *cough*firefox*cough* then I'd start to get concerned.
Re:Very positive! (Score:2, Informative)
"it's no longer an object of ridicule either"
is what is technically known as 'damning with faint praise'.
It's not any good at all, but at least people aren't pointing and laughing at it?
Re:Use FileMirrors to find download URLs (Score:1, Informative)
Re:a finer compliment (Score:3, Informative)
Re:a finer compliment (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It breaks the new slashdot layout (Score:3, Informative)
Bug has been discussed between slashdot and MS! (Score:3, Informative)