Comments on: XMLHTTP to go native, and other IE7 goodness

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:57:01 +0000

Most people with an internet connection (and a legal copy) have already upgraded to sp2 anyways… We should be rejoicing that MS is finally listning to the community instead of bashing them for doing so by saying they are copying. Don’t just flatly accuse them of copying when this is exactly what we have been asking them to do.

By: Rimantas

Rimantas — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:35:22 +0000

Once IE7 is widely adopted

oh yes… XPSP2 and Vista only. This gonna be a long night…

By: Dean C

Dean C — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:45:45 +0000

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/16/469686.aspx

It’s out :) First flances, is that it’s beta, has a couple of bugs and seems better than the accessibility toolbar :)

By: Hormone

Hormone — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:28:21 +0000

It will be interesting to see the Web Developer Toolbar. I've used the Web Accessibility Toolbar from AIS for some time.

By: MystaMax

MystaMax — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:42:42 +0000

wow exciting stuff. I wonder what features the IE version of the Web Developer Tool bar will be included. The more IE comes to its senses w/ following standards the better.

By: Dean C

Dean C — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:07:23 +0000

This is great news :) I’m looking forward to the web developer toolbar especiall. I just pray that it’ll contain the outline features present in the FF one :)

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:05:41 +0000

Bring on the new select element, now if only that could back ported through a Windows update … I wonder if now that it is a lightweight control as part of the page that CSS styling of the select elements will work properly as it does with the other form elements?

By: Tony Bittan

Tony Bittan — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:38:22 +0000

Bizarelly, I was only thinking today about how good it would be if XMLHttpRequest was supported in this way in IE7, so when I read this you could have knocked me down with a feather!

By: polvero

polvero — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:24:38 +0000

this is great news. does anyone know where i can view updates on IE7 specifically on the DOM? (and not just ALL updates)

By: velocd

velocd — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:06:34 +0000

Another similarly welcome announcement is that the select element…. will be able to overlap these menus and lists and correctly obscure them when they do

Awesome news, this known annoyance in IE has always made most of our clients fringe, as our application interfaces use many convenient CSS drop downs that are always obscured by nearby select menus.

As for IE7 supporting the XmlHttpRequest object? Hurrah!