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By: SitePoint Blogs » Internet Explorer public bug database

SitePoint Blogs » Internet Explorer public bug database — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:57:06 +0000

[…] As hinted at last month, Microsoft has launched a public bug database for Internet Explorer 7, as well as subsequent releases of the browser. The site will not be used to track bugs in Internet Explorer 6 and earlier releases. […]

By: Sascha Goebels WebLog » Blog Archive » Javascript Inheritance

Sascha Goebels WebLog » Blog Archive » Javascript Inheritance — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:01:03 +0000

[…] Harry wrote an interresting article about Javascript Inheritance in the DHTML Blog over at SitePoint. The given approach looks pretty straightforward and if I’ll ever do some Javascript again, I might give it a try […]

By: colinmcc

colinmcc — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:11:55 +0000

With all the money Gates &Co have, I totally fail to see why Microsoft can’t start again and build a browser from scratch, especially since I suspect it is the most used prog of their Windows user base.

Having found (been driven to use by the bugs in IE) firefox, I then started using thunderbird, and am migrating all my work, sites and customers to open source.

So Microsoft’s poor implementation of standards and blatant attitude of two fingers up to developers and users has lost them market share in any project I am involved in, not gained.

Everytime I sit down at a customer’s computer the first thing I do is download firefox and explain why they should use it rather than IE.

By: pixelsoul

pixelsoul — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:55:48 +0000

You are right it is so annoying.. i have set a default browser but still ms products like messenger don’t use it :(

I personally only use IE from MSN messenger when I check my hotmail because I can’t figure out how to switch it to FireFox. I imagine many others are the same.

By: chrisb

chrisb — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:03:47 +0000

Of course they only put major effort into products when necessary - its a business! I doubt there are many businesses that actively choose to make less money…

Slightly different; but I remember an entry on Andrew’s blog sharing that he’d raised the price of a service by a considerable amount. why? purely ‘cos he’d decided he could get away with it and make more money - with a number of comments following congratulating him for it [not a shot at him in any way, just example..]

By: Fiska

Fiska — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:36:38 +0000

I apsolutely agree, MS tendds to develop it’s product just to sink it’s rivals (gain market share), same applies with other technologies, they started with C# just because Sun offered something better - Java.

By: shockbotkins

shockbotkins — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:15:59 +0000

It’s nice to see that we’ll be designing websites the same way for the next 5 years or so still using the same code but with improvements.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:21:11 +0000

I can only see one reason why the development of IE7 has been started and that is because of the rise of Firefox.
So if you want to ensure that Microsoft keeps developing IE7, IE8, etc, it is important that people keep using Firefox.
Otherwise Microsoft will abandon browser development again.

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:14:31 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, Microsoft is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too late with IE7. I tried the beta and hated it. The file menu only shows when you mouse over, the useability is a nightmare, and yes, the rendering still sucks.

I used to be all for IE but now FireFox is king. Swift updates, a team passionate about its development, etc, etc. The *ONLY* reason MS are doing IE7 is because of Mozilla, and that’s the truth.

I personally only use IE from MSN messenger when I check my hotmail because I can’t figure out how to switch it to FireFox. I imagine many others are the same.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:25:53 +0000

http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/pseudocss.html#fltadjacent

Looks like it might well be a documented bug.