Users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) turned a blog post by a Microsoft Corp. program manager into a complaint free-for-all that took the company to task for not following through on browser upgrade promises and alienating Web developers. In the posting to the IE team's blog, Tony Chor, a group program manager, used the passing of IE7's first year to tick off several milestones for the browser, including a claim that its user base recently reached 300 million. "This makes IE7 the second most popular browser after IE6," Chor said in the post. "IE 7 is already #1 in the U.S. and U.K., and we expect IE7 to surpass IE6 worldwide shortly."
Chor also said that IE7's integrated anti-phishing filter stops an estimated 900,000 phish attempts each week, and that the support call volume for Microsoft's browser line is down 20% from a year ago. "This is typically a sign that the product is more stable and has fewer issues than the previous release," Chor said.
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Chor also said that IE7's integrated anti-phishing filter stops an estimated 900,000 phish attempts each week, and that the support call volume for Microsoft's browser line is down 20% from a year ago. "This is typically a sign that the product is more stable and has fewer issues than the previous release," Chor said.
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And for those of you who are kids still, go outside and play. For those with snow on the ground, snowball fights are dangerous, and that is half of the fun. Hint: mix the snow with some cold water to make it more solid. It stings more that way.
Right! Inflicting pain on others is the best way to express friendship!
Hint: put rocks in your snowballs and you can really inflict some pain! You may even score an occasional fatality! Your “friends” will love you for it!
PC World uses anonymous comments as if they are meaningful, representative of a large group's views, and can actually be considered credible. More anti-Microsoft senationalism... Will it ever go out of style?
From the development side of things, I rarely get any differences between IE7, FF2, Opera and Safari. It's the rest (namely IE6 and below) that cause the problems.
Really? Insanely slow? Not even close? I don't know what kind of systems you are using it on but Ive never experienced IE7 performing at such an abysmal level as you describe.
My company blocks 7 because it's incompatible with so many internal websites. You could argue that these internal sites should be updated, but they work fine in 6, so why move to the non-compliant 7 when it will only mean more work?
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/
1 bug in Mozilla
95 bugs in Internet Explorer 6
34 bugs in Opera 9
95 bugs in Internet Explorer 7
1 bug in Safari 3
[e.g. for IE6]; 6- Constrained link is shrinked by wrapping cell
This bug happens often. The web author creates a site menu based on a table, defines display: block for the link in order to make the link clickable in the whole area of the cell, then uses width: 100% (instead of width: auto). NS 6.2, NS 7.0, NS 7.2, Seamonkey 1.x, K-meleon 1.x, Firefox 1.x, Firefox 2.0, Safari 2.0, Safari 3.0.2, Opera 9.01, Konqueror 3.5.4, Galeon 2.0.1, Epiphany 2.14 all pass this test.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx
I want to be clear that our intent is to build a platform that fully complies with the appropriate web standards, in particular CSS 2 ( 2.1, once it’s been Recommended). I think we will make a lot of progress against that in IE7 through our goal of removing the worst painful bugs that make our platform difficult to use for web developers.
I imagine your company would be a lot happier if they knew that their internal sites would function on several browsers rather than just 1
Last edited by TSThomas on 05 Dec 2007 - 20:26
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