Any news on IE 7?

[jkoXP]

Does anyone have any news on IE 7?

 

[SPeedY_B]

Yeah, It's never going to exist.

 

[funky dredd]

Is there going to be a 7? I heard there was and also heard there wasn't. But that was a long time ago.

 

[SPeedY_B]

The last rumour surrounding IE7 was in October 2002.

 

[jkoXP]

Why wouldnt there be IE 7?

 

[Perris Calderon]

ha...enyo is starting to spell like I do

 

[SPeedY_B]

Originally posted by Enyo
Work has not stopped on IE but a new release will not seen as a standalone component.

Longhorn will have IE 6 and its not knowen what will be included in Blackcomb.

The next versions of IE will be seen only as part of the OS, this is due to the core development of IE, simply older OSs are not going to be able to cut the new technologies MS have in mind and of couse anti-trust issues.

A news story was around a week or so ago giving some details on this.

Thats what I meant
Couldn't find a damn link to the article though.

 

[jkoXP]

Originally posted by Enyo
Work has not stopped on IE but a new release will not seen as a standalone component.

Longhorn will have IE 6 and its not knowen what will be included in Blackcomb.

The next versions of IE will be seen only as part of the OS, this is due to the core development of IE, simply older OSs are not going to be able to cut the new technologies MS have in mind and of couse anti-trust issues.

A news story was around a week or so ago giving some details on this.

Oh, I was hoping IE 7 would come out separatly. I guess I'll stick with Mozilla for now since they have builtin popup stopper and tabbed browsing. I like IE too...

 

[SPeedY_B]

As Speedy enjoys pointing out

Helloooo *waves*

Mozilla even supports NTLM Authentication now, and (even though we're at 1.4 RC1, and this is a long way off, but..) 1.5 is going to be a lot smaller and faster, by taking elements from FireBird to improve the Mozilla suite.

So, woot... IE stinx

 

[Perris Calderon]

/me will be unsavy until mozilla is as refined and as fast as ie.

till then, I am un savy

 

[SPeedY_B]

Yawn.

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by Enyo
Speedy, do you use the firebird nightly binaries? If so are they troublesome or solid?

I use the Firebird nightlies. Keep them updated everyday. I have found them to be as stable as milestone builds, but that's because I don't delibrately try to crash them

 

[Perris Calderon]

firebirds are much better then mozilla...imo

 

[NetRyder]

Mozilla is on it's way to becoming Firebird.
The Mozilla suite will converge to Firebird as it's standalone browser and Thunderbird as it's standalone mail client.

 

[Perris Calderon]

I would have stayed with the firebird had I not kept getting to sites it had trouble with...I liked the bird

I couldn't handle mozilla.

I can't understand why mozilla is so much slower then firebird