ie7 retail

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 pm

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie

rofl... anyone switching back from their alt. browser of choice now that ms made ie 'really secure'?

Post by **Captain** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:17 pm

I'm using IE6

Post by **Denz** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:24 pm

IE6 works. NO reason to change it.

Post by **Captain** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:49 pm

Aye, I've never had problems with it

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:25 am

ie6 works like crap...

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:11 am

Post by **mrd** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:19 am

I haven't used IE for friggen years.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:28 am

I broke IE 6 after heavy use. Open up one instance of the program will immediately use up 1.5gb of ram (1/3 or that virtual).

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:41 am

ie7 will prolly break 80% of the websites out there :icon14:

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:21 am

MKJ wrote:ie7 will prolly break 80% of the websites out there :icon14:

It's gonna be a bitch for our company. Loads of IE6/firefox compatible websites and now IE7 comes and pisses down our necks. Now we have IE6, IE7 and Firefox to take care of (oh yeah, and a bit of Opera and Safari as well)

Post by **Grudge** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:41 am

MKJ wrote:ie7 will prolly break 80% of the websites out there :icon14:

from what I've heard, they seem to have done nothing to improve the standards compliance, they've just added tabs and security features

so I'm guessing they use the same (shitty) rendering engine as IE6, which means that it will still render the crappy code that people make in MS Word in a very lenient way while not adhering to the XHTML standards, forcing serious developers to use IE-specific hacks

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:21 am

Eraser wrote:
MKJ wrote:ie7 will prolly break 80% of the websites out there :icon14:
It's gonna be a bitch for our company. Loads of IE6/firefox compatible websites and now IE7 comes and pisses down our necks. Now we have IE6, IE7 and Firefox to take care of (oh yeah, and a bit of Opera and Safari as well)

a large portion of our backend wont work anymore (internally mind) because of their new css and xsl handling

bitches

Post by **Denz** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:55 am

MS holds the strings to our puppets.

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:20 am

Grudge wrote:from what I've heard, they seem to have done nothing to improve the standards compliance, they've just added tabs and security features

so I'm guessing they use the same (shitty) rendering engine as IE6, which means that it will still render the crappy code that people make in MS Word in a very lenient way while not adhering to the XHTML standards, forcing serious developers to use IE-specific hacks

They have made some significant changes to the way IE7 handles CSS and such so there are definitely changes. If those changes are actual improvements remains to be seen.

Fact is that a large number of IE6 optimized sites wont work with IE7 anymore.

Post by **mrd** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:32 am

I think MS needs to realize that they can't just change a whole bunch of shit around and expect everyone to follow suit happily. I don't think they have that kind of weight to throw around anymore. Especially with Firefox getting so popular... I don't even think I know anyone that still uses IE.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:18 pm

rof

http://secunia.com/advisories/22477/

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:19 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:rof

http://secunia.com/advisories/22477/

moron alert

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:41 pm

Eraser wrote:
It's gonna be a bitch for our company. Loads of IE6/firefox compatible websites and now IE7 comes and pisses down our necks. Now we have IE6, IE7 and Firefox to take care of (oh yeah, and a bit of Opera and Safari as well)

what u need to do is quit working...work is for chumps...

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:31 pm

Grudge wrote:
MKJ wrote:ie7 will prolly break 80% of the websites out there :icon14:
from what I've heard, they seem to have done nothing to improve the standards compliance, they've just added tabs and security features

Then you've heard wrong. One of the major pushes with the development of IE7 was better standards compliance (although it still isn't perfect).

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:33 pm

mrd wrote:I think MS needs to realize that they can't just change a whole bunch of shit around and expect everyone to follow suit happily. I don't think they have that kind of weight to throw around anymore. Especially with Firefox getting so popular... I don't even think I know anyone that still uses IE.

They still have over 80% of the market and since they're still the only browser which can be controlled via policies on a network their corporate base isn't going anywhere. I think that the advent of Firefox has forced them to realize that they need to continue developing IE and making it more standards compliant though, and that kind of competition benefits everybody.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:00 pm

Saw this earlier

Post by **Denz** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:06 pm

haha

Post by **SoM** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:09 pm

lol Pho

Post by **Captain** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:05 pm

lol M$

Post by **CitizenKane** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:11 pm

Firefox is the way forward.