Comments on: IE7 Beta 2 Released

By: dewebtimes

dewebtimes — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:43:47 +0000

Havent yet upgraded to IE7, hope it works fine.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:30:18 +0000

Michael, I see what you mean. So far, no obvious solution. Disabling the popup blocker has no effect — even disabling it in IE6 has no impact. We’re going to have to see what the differences in the registry are in the full install.

By: rbl00

rbl00 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:01:09 +0000

Ok, I have more info now, it seems that IE7 (standalone) is somehow seeing drop downs (in forms) as pop ups. Everytime I try to click on a drop down to see the choices I get the Popup blocked message.

Michael

By: rbl00

rbl00 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:49:18 +0000

Has anyone noticed that drop downs in Forms don’t seem to work. I have IE7 installed on one machine as a regular install and it works fine but using it as a standalone on my laptop, drop downs in Forms do not work at all.

Anyone else having this issue?

Michael

By: Helza

Helza — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:26:10 +0000

Galadriann: From ieblog:


if (window.XMLHttpRequest){

          // If IE7, Mozilla, Safari, etc: Use native object
          var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest()

}
else
{
if (window.ActiveXObject){

          // ...otherwise, use the ActiveX control for IE5.x and IE6
          var xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
          }

}

By: mrtimd

mrtimd — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:04:08 +0000

Hey Everyone,
I did the side by side install suggested by Kevin and did enjoy a working copy of the IE Beta 2. However I discovered that IE 6 developed many issues and removing the beta 2 did not return me to a “normal” IE install. I found this solution that seems to work.

From:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/16/504864.aspx

IE December Security Update – addressing scattered reports of odd browser behavior

We have received scattered reports of users experiencing odd browser behavior after installing our most recent security update. Some of you have reported opening a browser window that promptly hangs IE, others have reported opening links that render blank, and finally we have reports of multiple windows opening when initiating a browser session. After investigating several of these reports, we have traced these issues to a common source.

If a user has ever attempted to run IE7 Beta1 in an unsupported side-by-side configuration with a version of IE6, IE7 Beta1 puts a registry key on the machine the first time a user executes the IE7 version of IEXPLORE.EXE. This key is part of an normal IE7 installation on XP, and will not be configured correctly if an unsupported side-by-side install is used. When IE7 is installed using the installer, the key should be removed properly upon uninstall. A machine can also load this registry key and not remove it during a failed IE7 installation.

To address this issue on a machine running IE 6 SP1 with our most recent security update, locate and delete this entire key from the registry of the affected machine: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{c90250f3-4d7d-4991-9b69-a5c5bc1c2ae6}. If you are running IE7 Beta1 in a side-by-side scenario with another version of IE, this is not a supported scenario.

Happy Browsing

By: Galadriann

Galadriann — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:01:51 +0000

Just launched IE7 pubic beta…
For once, I think that did a good job with the tab browsing. The fact that you can also view all the pages as thumbnails is a plus I think…

On the other hand …. It doesn’t like ajax (I have a custom page with some ajax on it). IE6 and FireFox works great on that page … so guess still some work to do…

Does it like Linux ? Funny to say that the main page of my linux server doesn’t display on it … can’t even find it…

I will probably wait until MS releases the final version and even maybe wait for the unevitable first patches…

On the overall once all the bugs will be fixed (in the hope they won’t make this a new “standard”)..

Cheers to IE7 ..

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:18:21 +0000

Just a note to say that the iexplore.exe.local tip is genius :)

By: CodeLes

CodeLes — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:44:02 +0000

ok, we as developers/psudo-programmers know that using hacks/workarounds is very risky, so it always helps to do a little fail safe research when testing the waters. I was having a little trouble with the side-by-side hack for IE7beta/IE6 (which is not a recommended or supported way to use the beta/preview of IE7) so I found some help fixing it at this link:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/12/28/434132.aspx

hope it is helpful to anyone else who may find themselves in over their head.

CodeLes

By: mattjacob

mattjacob — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:56:35 +0000

jonnyporter: I’m having the same problem as you. Anytime I try to enter a URL in IE6, Firefox pops open and intercepts it. I’d really like to go back to the way things were before…