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ie7 retail
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 pm
by dzjepp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie
rofl... anyone switching back from their alt. browser of choice now that ms made ie 'really secure'?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:17 pm
by Captain
I'm using IE6

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:24 pm
by Denz
IE6 works. NO reason to change it.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:49 pm
by Captain
Aye, I've never had problems with it

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:25 am
by Freakaloin
ie6 works like crap...
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:11 am
by seremtan
IE

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:19 am
by mrd
I haven't used IE for friggen years.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:28 am
by Massive Quasars
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).
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:41 am
by MKJ
ie7 will prolly break 80% of the websites out there :icon14:
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:21 am
by Eraser
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)
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:41 am
by Grudge
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
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:21 am
by MKJ
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
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:55 am
by Denz
MS holds the strings to our puppets.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:20 am
by Eraser
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:32 am
by mrd
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:18 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:19 pm
by MKJ
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:41 pm
by Freakaloin
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...
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:31 pm
by Tormentius
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).
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:33 pm
by Tormentius
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:00 pm
by PhoeniX
Saw this earlier

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:06 pm
by Denz
haha

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:09 pm
by SoM
lol Pho
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:05 pm
by Captain
lol M$
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:11 pm
by CitizenKane
Firefox is the way forward.