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Offline vyper

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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #20 on: October 20, 2006, 04:49:36 pm
I will thank god for I.E7 when it is in widespread use as I.E5 OR 6 is currently. Until then, I will continue to plan and code for the worst case scenarios.
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #21 on: October 20, 2006, 04:51:03 pm
Quote from: Sandwich on October 19, 2006, 10:02:35 am
That's exactly what I mean. IE6 < IE7 < Firefox/Opera/Safari. And I'm a web developer myself, which is why I'm happy about IE7. I'm not gonna use it. But I'll enjoy people using it instead of IE6, that's for sure.
But a hell of a lot of people wont use it, it is only supported on XP SP2 and above, there are waaaay too many people running on a Windows OS that is not XP or Vista and are still using 6.
For this reason, there's no way in hell I am happy about the release of IE7, because people will start trying to write web pages for it, which will break in 6, alienating too many people.

This is Microsoft's fault, if they had just let people using pre-XP use IE7, there wouldn't be a problem.
 

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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #22 on: October 20, 2006, 05:50:08 pm
Outside of windows 2K, anyone thats still using 9X needs to get with it.
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #23 on: October 20, 2006, 06:11:50 pm
Quote from: Ferret on October 20, 2006, 04:51:03 pm
Quote from: Sandwich on October 19, 2006, 10:02:35 am
That's exactly what I mean. IE6 < IE7 < Firefox/Opera/Safari. And I'm a web developer myself, which is why I'm happy about IE7. I'm not gonna use it. But I'll enjoy people using it instead of IE6, that's for sure.
But a hell of a lot of people wont use it, it is only supported on XP SP2 and above, there are waaaay too many people running on a Windows OS that is not XP or Vista and are still using 6.
For this reason, there's no way in hell I am happy about the release of IE7, because people will start trying to write web pages for it, which will break in 6, alienating too many people.

This is Microsoft's fault, if they had just let people using pre-XP use IE7, there wouldn't be a problem.

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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #24 on: October 20, 2006, 07:20:43 pm
:wtf: Silence sweedish meatball.
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #25 on: October 20, 2006, 07:46:07 pm
IE7 is a billion times better than IE6.  Which is good for us web developers...finally it won't **** up every bit of CSS you throw at it.  Its about bloody time.

Firefox will still be my primary web browser but at least the rest of the uneducated masses will have something decent to use finally.  Microsoft only made IE7 thanks to the success of Firefox. They were talking about removing IE from Vista altogether and just do it through a generic OS application.
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #26 on: October 23, 2006, 08:22:57 pm
What I don't understand though is why MS can't/won't release a bugfix to IE6 that addresses its rendering flaws. That would win them SO many point with web devs worldwide...
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #27 on: October 23, 2006, 08:49:01 pm
Quote from: Sandwich on October 23, 2006, 08:22:57 pm
What I don't understand though is why MS can't/won't release a bugfix to IE6 that addresses its rendering flaws. That would win them SO many point with web devs worldwide...

They want to sell Vista.
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #28 on: October 24, 2006, 12:30:45 am
And besides, IE6's flaws are so deeply rooted it required a rewrite to solve them for IE7.
Bugfixes don't typically involve replacing 70% of the code.
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Re: IE7 Released - thank God!
Reply #29 on: October 24, 2006, 08:49:12 am
Granted; IANAP. Still, I wish they'd do SOMEthing.
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