Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
IE 7 Released
Category: Announcements, Browsers
, IE
The first word came from the IEBlog:
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday tasks easier. When I first posted publicly about IE7, I wrote that we would go further to defend users from phishing and malicious software. The Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and ActiveX opt-in will help keep users more secure. IE7 also delivers a much easier browsing experience with features like tabbed browsing (especially with QuickTabs), shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, and a new design that leaves more screen real estate for the web site you’re viewing. IE7’s CSS improvements are incredibly important for developers as many of you have made quite clear. I also think IE7’s RSS experience and platform are important, powerful, and innovative.
In addition to our release of IE7, Yahoo! has a customized version of the browser available today and over the next few days partners such as Weather.com and USA TODAY will offer their own customized versions. These versions will tailor the user experience with specific toolbars, additional search engines, favorites, and RSS feeds.
Is anyone seeing a bunch of new IE7 requests coming in? Found any issues with IE7 rendering bugs in your applications? It’s going to be a busy time!
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I am not sure if its good or not, but everyone I work with has already made the switch to IE7 with the betas. So I already got to fix all those wonderful new bugs it introduced.
I am very excited for IE7 and would love to see how early it is addopted. I hope we can soon rely on most users having it…one can only hope…
i’m still going to have to be running it as a standalone since i’m sure for the next 6 months to a year (minimum) i’m going to still have to be supporting IE6 for my client work. this happened a week or two before i was expecting, great. :-/
So here’s the article I want to see:
“How to install and manage IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 smoothly within WinXP running on Parallels” –> send it to rob@ajaxian.com and I’ll even publish it.
[...] Kągi jau oficialiai išleistas IE7 WinXp. Teoriškai galima diegtis jau patiems, o jei nenorėsite patys Microsoftas pats pasiūlys kaip kokį kritinį pataisymą (paprastai eiliniai vartotojai spaudžia Ok, kad viską atnaujinti). Tai reiškia, kad stipriai sumažės IE6 naudojimas, bei prasidės dar vienas svetainių tvarkymo bumas dėl IE7 skirtumą. Vienas jų XmlHttpRequest naudojamas, dabar jis native. [...]
I assure you, anyone that downloads IE7, fiery ant DOOM shall rain down from the skies upon thy beautiful scenery, fine dining, time at the spa and general merriment…
Ditto naterkane, I’m not installing IE7 unless I can maintain IE6 in parallel. We’ll still all be hacking for IE6 for years to come.
Anybody got a foolproof way of installing IE7 and IE6 in parallel?
Not tested yet but look ok!
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
I tested on my laptop some time ago. So ie worked not correctly. Some errors from interface and etc.
I supose instal ie7 and have standalone ie6
The updates that were done to the rendering engine makes this a release that should have been 6.1
/me prays… (I don´t wanna rehack all my developments…)
It appears that IE7, both the beta and final versions, cause my version of dreamweaver 8 to forget the FTP connection information for all of the sites I have set up in it. Every time I switch which site I’m working on, or re-open the program I must re-enter my login name and password before uploading any material.
Terrill, that exact same thing has been happening to me, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what caused it. It never occurred to me that IE7 might be the cause, but sure ’nuff, now that I think about it the problem did begin around the time I installed IE7b2…
Does IE7 offer any real improvement in standards support? It doesn’t look like it does.
Same here Terrill and Mr Wilson, strange huh…
So how long until the Cross Domain XHR Bug will be fixed? :)
Hi folks; I’m worried that IE 7′s new way of working with ActiveX will break some important ActiveX objects that people have been using:
* XSLT processor – for doing XSLT
* DOM serializer – for turning a DOM into a string
* XML object – for working with XML documents
I’m worried that these either won’t work, because they have to be instantiated as ActiveX controls, or that the user will continiously be prompted for permission. I haven’t updated to IE 7 because I’m worried about these things; does anyone know yet?
Best,
Brad Neuberg
You’re not serious about IE5.5 really… or are you?
This is the perfect picture of the internet explorer installation:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k114/Frenziefrenz/Screenshots/2006-10-19_205221.png
I found this on my friends weblog, in this post:
http://frans.lowter.us/archives/2006/10/19/i-like-internet-explorer-7/
Such a good screenshot
With regard to IE making Dreamweaver forgetful, check out this article which was sent to me from a Dreamweaver Support person.
http://www.adobe.com/go/3491671c
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Nice Blog