New version of Internet Explorer?

[Frederik Vanderstraeten]

The css engine of the current version really sucks does anyone know when
a new version comes out?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

The css engine of the current version really sucks does anyone know
when a new version comes out?

2006 with Longhorn

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[Frederik Vanderstraeten]

Two years yet... That's really too long

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP schreef:

 

[don]

use firefox from mozilla.org
version1.0 comes out on tuesday.
more secure and more usefull

 

[Frederik Vanderstraeten]

I'm using it already, but I'm a webmaster so I can't use css properly
because 9/10 of the internet users are still using IE...

don schreef:

 

[C. A. Upsdell]

2006 with Longhorn

And from all accounts IE7 will be available only with Longhorn, not with
current versions of Windows, so IE's coding inadequacies will continue to
bedevil us long after Longhorn appears.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

And from all accounts IE7 will be available only with Longhorn, not
with current versions of Windows, so IE's coding inadequacies will
continue to bedevil us long after Longhorn appears.

I expect IE7 to be ported back to WinXP. Of course, I may be wrong.

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[Gary Smith]

And from all accounts IE7 will be available only with Longhorn, not with
current versions of Windows, so IE's coding inadequacies will continue to
bedevil us long after Longhorn appears.

And 2006 is a very optimistic estimate.

 

[Guest]

I hope the IE development team has the balls to make IE7 work with XP.
Ridiculously flawed CSS support (or standards in general) is another major
reason Microsoft is hated so much.

 

[Gary Smith]

Balls? It doesn't take balls -- it takes motivation. What would their
motivation be? They do all that work so you can have a better browser for
free? I expect that if you want a better MS browser than IE6, you're
going to have to buy their new (and probably overpriced) version of
Windows.

As for CSS, there must be hundreds of thousands of people who long for a
browser that will ignore all that crap and just display the content in a
manner they can actually read.

 

[C A Upsdell]

As for CSS, there must be hundreds of thousands of people who long for a
browser that will ignore all that crap and just display the content in a
manner they can actually read.

If you don't want CSS, Netscape 3 is still available. Or Netscape 4, if
you are willing to disable JavaScript (which also disables CSS). I
wonder, though, how satisfied you would be surfing today's web with
those browsers.

 

[Gary Smith]

If you don't want CSS, Netscape 3 is still available. Or Netscape 4, if
you are willing to disable JavaScript (which also disables CSS). I
wonder, though, how satisfied you would be surfing today's web with
those browsers.

What I really don't want is web page designers who decide how thir pages
should look on my monitor, despite the fact that it may be a different
size and resolution than what they're designed for. Pages where the width
will not resize and pages stuck in tiny (or very occasionally, overly
large) type are two of my pet peeves. More and more often I find I'm
taking measures to override the unsuitable specifications the page
designers have set, and of course I tend not to go back to those pages.

 

[C A Upsdell]

What I really don't want is web page designers who decide how thir pages
should look on my monitor, despite the fact that it may be a different
size and resolution than what they're designed for. Pages where the width
will not resize and pages stuck in tiny (or very occasionally, overly
large) type are two of my pet peeves.

Ah, a reasonable complaint. From your earlier words I had thought that
you were objecting to all CSS.

Alas, too many designers focus on total control, any most of them appear
to be unteachable: they simply cannot understand the merits of
user-centric design.

 

[Guest]

I can see how CSS can get annoying with overly-specific font-size attributes,
but that just one small portion of what CSS is all about.

How about IE 7 fully supporting the hover selector on other tags other than
the <A> tag? The .htc is the stupidest idea to fix a problem that wouldn't
exist if they would comply with CSS speficications.

I sure hope someone from their development team decides to read some of
these threads, it would only make their browser better.

On another note, IE has always been available for download. The same way you
c an download IE 6 for Windows 2000 as you can for XP I believe (and hope)
that IE 7 will be available for download for XP.

 

[C A Upsdell]

On another note, IE has always been available for download. The same way you
c an download IE 6 for Windows 2000 as you can for XP I believe (and hope)
that IE 7 will be available for download for XP.

IE7 will run on the next version of Windows (now called Longhorn), and
may be installed on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003.