Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Feb 2006 18:40 UTC, submitted by Jason Scalia
Microsoft has released the 2nd beta of Internet Explorer 7 to the general public. You can read the release notes, or watch a tour of the new features. Microsoft warns you not to use this beta a production environment: "Evaluation of Internet Explorer 7 should start now, but the software should not be used on production systems in mission-critical environments. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems, but will ultimately be available for Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003." Update: You might have been expecting this, but there's already a DoS attack out there for this new beta.
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RE[2]: Support cross-platform!
by Knuckles on Wed 1st Feb 2006 19:49
in reply to "RE: Support cross-platform!"
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Safari isn't cross platform but their engine is, for example: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/, and the newer nokia handsets.
And yeah, microsoft has a very good track record of solving bugs and making their browser standards-compliant, and they always listen to their users and their problems.
And what happens when they add avalon and those pretty-marketing-name technologies to ie7 and other browsers are left out on the cold? A monoculture like this is _always_ bad, be it open-source or not.
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2005-07-02
Safari isn't cross-platform. It doesn't even use the exact same rendering engine as Konqueror. What's more, IE7 is supposed to be much more up to date as far as standards go (not up to Opera yet, but not nearly as bad at IE6 from what I used of it). What's more, if we get a lot of people beta testing IE7, and reporting rendering bugs, then MS will be more likely to fix as many of those non-standard rendering issues as possible. Then all the average Joe users out there will be using a standards compliant browser, and there won't be any "ONLY IE HERE" pages.
So, stop spreading FUD. Start working with MS for better compatability in the future. I say this to everyone who comes out with the "MS did badly before, so they will do badly again" argument against IE7. Until the final is out, we all have the power to make it more standards compliant and more secure, but using the beta and giving feedback to MS. To me, that is a "very" compelling reason.