OSNews > Thread > "RE[3]: Ieeeeeee!" by usman

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Jul 2006 16:12 UTC, submitted by Karyn Good

NeoSmart has a review of the just released Internet Explorer 7 and screenshots to match. The review focuses on the user interface, security, and compatibility of Internet Explorer 7 compared to IE6, Opera, and Firefox. They conclude: "The world of online browsing has finally reached a point where, by-and-large, it doesn't matter what browser a user chooses or how they decide to browse the web, for the most part pages will display the way they should, the users will be secure, and malware needs to find a new venue. This latest build of Internet Explorer 7 only strengthened our opinion."

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RE[3]: Ieeeeeee!

by usman on Sat 1st Jul 2006 22:01 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Ieeeeeee!"

Member since:
2006-07-01

"Microsoft has brought IE a long way with Windows Internet Explorer 7, and it does indeed rival Opera and FF in terms of compatibility and compliance - but it just so happens that it isn't compatible in the same way they are. Two lies, whose to say which is right and which is wrong?"

i dont know which world you live in ...
but as far as i know ...

Technology IE 6 IE 7 Firefox 1.5 Opera8.5
HTML / XHTML 73% 74% 91% 85%
CSS 2.1 52% 54% 93% 93%
CSS 3 changes 10% 13% 27% 8%
DOM 50% 50% 79% 77%
ECMAScript 100% 100% Y Y

http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_summary.php

and then there are conspiracy theorists who say that microsoft has planned this all along ... if web browsers get good enough ... it would shift the platform to the web ... (somebody remember the good old netscape days ?) where they wont be able to keep their monopoly ...

who knows .. they may be write afterall ..
(you may want to imagine what gmail would be like if it only had to support firefox and opera .. you will have your answer !)

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RE[4]: Ieeeeeee!

by Marcellus on Sun 2nd Jul 2006 12:01 in reply to "RE[3]: Ieeeeeee!"

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2005-08-26

The last changes made to the IE 7 columns were made on the 9th of June, which is before beta 3 was released, which makes the numbers irrelevant until beta 3 has been tested properly against all these things listed.

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RE[5]: Ieeeeeee!

by sappyvcv on Sun 2nd Jul 2006 14:50 in reply to "RE[4]: Ieeeeeee!"

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2005-07-06

The numbers will not change much. The IE team has already stated their plans as far as support for various standards go. At most, the new beta might make each thing go up a percent or so. That's still pretty weak compared to the other browsers.

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