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Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks on their awesome win yesterday and their first NFC championship! (The Seahawks are our local American football team.) We’re thrilled that the Seahawks are finally going to Super Bowl and can’t wait for the big game in two weeks.
- Tony Chor
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- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
aack... not about football :>) ... Questions though: will IE7 embed support for Jscript.NET (client side)? Will .NET 2.0 be installed by IE7 and/or Vista?
-Thomas Giebink - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
1> No IE7 does not embed support for .NET languages, although you can of course use Winforms integration to run Winforms code in the browser (this was possible in IE6 too).
2> No IE7 does not install .NET 2.0, but I believe Windows Vista does. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I love IE and Microsoft but I have to say, GO STEELERS!!
Don't get me wrong, I like the Seahawks but Steelers are my team! - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
You better clean your rooms, and deliver a public beta first, or you boys can just forget about any superbowl. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hurray for football. After you're done vegging watching the games though, would you mind adding some features to IE? At least tabbed browsing. I mean, all the browsers out there have tabs now. Even AOL. And I mean, come on, that's AOL. And how about some protection from all those ad/spyware bars that can get installed automatically? That'd be good too. Oh, and a built in popup blocker... - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
@Anonymous (Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:00 AM)
Ehm... please read the previous post also ;-)
Yes it is in :P!
IE is far from my favourite browser (due to CSS problems), but if you can't relax (football) you can't work! Enjoy the Football! And Enjoy developing IE as much as I enjoy making websites!
greets,
xfinx - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
what are "seahawks", and do they run cross-browser?
:-)
Kae - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
I don't watch/like much "football" as you Americans know it.
I watch/like very much "football" as we Europeans know it. So I won't say Go Seahawks! but I'd very much like to say:
Samo Botev Plovdiv!
Which means Only Botev Plovdiv! in Bulgarian. :)
/me back to work - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
ya not sure what this has to do with IE. please get IE7 out soon :( - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
If this were your personal blog, Tony, this sort of thing might be appropriate. But what does this have to do with IE? Please keep this sort of nonsense out of here. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Why is this on my RSS feed for Internet Explorer? This is very unprofessional. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
How about the superbowl date for the launch of the public IE beta version ? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
American football is like rugby for whimps.
Oh and of course real football will be seen this summer in Germany when the most popular sporting event of the year will be held.
The FIFA World Cup. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hi guys,
While I am normally a big fan of these blogs, I have to agree with a few of the latest comments, that a post of this nature really is not appropriate here.
I hate to sound a little mean with all of this, but one of the main rules that you ask induviduals to stick to when posting is that they 'stay on topic'. My point there is that surely you guys should be held to that rule when it comes to the the stuff you put up.
As Chad has also mentioned, updates like these project a kind of unprofessional image to the reader.
Anyways, my overarching point (much like many of the other posters before me), is that if people wanted to read about football news (or anything sports related), then they'd go to a dedicated sports website or blog. As it stands, people who are reading this blog are interested in IE and in getting the latest news on IE 7, so they kinda expect posts on along those lines....... - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Some of these responses are hilarious, but come on guys. What did you expect? People come here for IE7 not football.
My question is, why was this link removed from the frontpage of Mix06?
"Adam, Innocent Bystander: We've heard the feedback about standards-based web development, and IE7 addresses many of the biggest issues. You will be able to try IE7 before MIX, and we'll make a special build available at MIX. We'll also have open discussion where you can provide this kind of feedback to the IE team in person. Finally, I want to be clear that the conference is about a lot more than the web browser. RSS, media, gadgets, etc. all play a big part."
http://blog.mix06.com/blog/archive/2005/12/16/12.aspx#comments
Seems to be a simple direct answer that we are not getting here. Instead of Q1 which is a vague as you can be. This clearly states that IE7 will be out before Mix06. Please confirm. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
We don't feel the need to restrict ourselves to "only technical subjects" on the IEBlog. It's our blog (a generally casual communications mechanism) and frankly we feel free to post on subjects of interest to us and to our audience. Sometimes more us than our audience, and that's OK.
We expected this one to draw criticism from the "stay technical, please" crowd. My suggestion is to wait for the next post if this one didn't interest you.
Serious Sam, we don't really police the comments to "stay on topic". The only "main rules" we have is to not use profanity or personally attack people. If you look through the comment threads, you will often find people saying "stay on topic" but it's not (usually) an IE team member.
Adam, the post you refer to is on the MIX06 site which we on the IE team don't control. I'm assuming that post is from Joshua Allen, IE technical evangelist. Our intent is to have a build available at MIX06, just as he says. And that's as precise as your going to get, sorry. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course comments about the Seahawks belong here, Paul Allen owns them, they were bought with all those dirty M$ ritches. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Thanks for this reply, Eric. Is embed support for Jscript.NET completely out of consideration for IE7? The reason I ask concerns project under development... having a sense of where IE is headed in the future helps determine our path now.
I bring this up because Peter Torr raised the possibility in an external forum:
[Hi,
There are no concrete plans for this at the moment but that could change.
We are looking for customer feedback on this (there is very little so far).
Embedding JScript .NET inside the browser is definitely a "cool" thing to
do, but unless customers come back and say "Hey, this would really make my
life easy!" or "This enables a whole bunch of new scenarios for me" it's
probably not going to happen.
Peter]
I (being a customer :>) would be glad to oblige Peter's request for feedback if this is the proper place to do so.
-- Thomas Giebink
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1> No IE7 does not embed support for .NET languages, although you can of course use Winforms integration to run Winforms code in the browser (this was possible in IE6 too).
2> No IE7 does not install .NET 2.0, but I believe Windows Vista does. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Ok, go Seahawks, but when's the Public Beta going to be released? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Serious Sam and others,
This is the IE Team's blog. We post about things that interest us. They aren't always work related and we're fine with that. It is meant to be much looser than, say, writing KB Articles. It's the same reason that we post team photos from time to time as well. It's about the team as well as the product so you should expect that we'll continue to post "off topic" things at times. It's a blog.
- Al Billings [MSFT] - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
Is there some code floating around on the internet belonging to IE7 ? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Boys, I think I'm going to have to side with mom. Clean up your room, release a public beta, and then you can go to the Superbowl PARTY! - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Totally off-topic:
input {
background-color: yellow;
}
input[type="text"] {
background-color: red;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
background-color: none;
}
This renders all input elements with a yellow background in the leaked IE7 build, though all the rest input attributes work as they are supposed to with CSS selectors. Is this (1) a bug, (2) you haven't got the chance to implement it yet or (3) was it done intentionally and the "type" attribute won't be exposed to CSS selectors on the final build? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Will the public beta be feature complete? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I know this is off-topic, but where can I report bugs of IE7? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I was about to ask why a sports article would be on this IE blog, and then saw "Seattle is our local team", and was like "Oh yeah, Microsoft is stationed in Redmond, Washington"
Be sure to enjoy your break! - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I bet those of you wishing blog postings here remain technical are probably Colts fans :P - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
It's the IE Blog, as in a blog. I write what I dam well feel like on my blog. I think of this blog almost like some people think about "leaked" IE betas.
I may not know anything about stocks but I have a feeling if all the standards advocates (such as myself) bought up all of MS's stocks then we'd have something more, professional. ;-) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
@Lordmike: The "Enhanced Security Configuration" for IE is what we internally call "IE-hardening". There's nothing really magical about it-- it's mostly just a lockdown of the zones settings such that almost everything is turned off. IE6 on XPSP2 without hardening has solid security, but you if you want, you can notch up the security sliders using Tools | Internet Options.
IE7 on Windows Vista will have security protection above and beyond hardening, because Protected Mode IE helps defend the entire platform. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
@Lordmike: The "Enhanced Security Configuration" for IE is what we internally call "IE-hardening". There's nothing really magical about it-- it's mostly just a lockdown of the zones settings such that almost everything is turned off. IE6 on XPSP2 without hardening has solid security, but you if you want, you can notch up the security sliders using Tools | Internet Options.
IE7 on Windows Vista will have security protection above and beyond hardening, because Protected Mode IE helps defend the entire platform. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Tony, I still have not seen an answer to my previous post. "Why is this on my RSS feed for Internet Explorer?" - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
@Chad Bailey:
I believe the answer is: "Because you have subscribed to the IE blog feed." - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
To Lordmike "Just kinda annoyed at people who steal software then complain about it not working as it should :-). "
As far as I know, IE is freeware, isnot it? :)
I understand, why beta isnot available for public, because most people would get infected or just whined about bugs, which are normal for betas. I used beta 1 for 6 months, even with bugs like freezing a few times a day, especially with bookmars. Beta 2 have also a few bugs, the most annoying is, that it removes cookies in about 3 houres, but I am gonna use it, because I am one of a few people, who really like IE and there are still less and less of them. So I should have to wait 1 year or I should have to use an alternative browser, if I just want to have things like tabs and I do not want to instal any extensions? :) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
So I should have to wait 1 year or I should have to use an alternative browser, if I just want to have things like tabs and I do not want to instal any extensions? :)
Exactly. MS is the late one in this game. And getting later by the day. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Chad,
I'm afraid that the question isn't clear. This is in your RSS feed because we posted it to the blog and you get a feed of our posts. As Bruce and I have mentioned, this is a team blog for the IE team so there will be times where we blog about general things of interest to us. The fact that our local football team did well is a good thing of interest to a lot of us here. :-)
Al Billings [MSFT] - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
yeah and on that note, GO INDIA !!! beat the pulp out of Pakistan (in cricket that is).
You guys doing an amazing job with IE, keep the fab work going <3 - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
@TheTOM.SK--
In normal cases when it was freeware from a company who just make freeware I would agree. But this is Microsoft! Even if it's free, you still need a windows license to run it and therefor it's not really freeware in my eyes anymore. Though I could be hugely mistaken... has happened before :-).
I can understand why you don't want to install google pack (tried it and hate it) or msn toolbar (even worse then google pack) just for tabs.
I use IE6, Firefox, Opera, Kongueror and especially lynx.
We all want IE7 like yesterday, because we have been waiting so long. But I'm one of those who'll have to wait, mostly beause I'm out of testboxes at the moment. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Super Bowl ? Fantastic... is my dream ! - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I think that Explorer and Firefox would make a good Superbowl commercial, much like the bud bowl commercials.
Only problem is, who would be leading? :) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Go Steelers..sorry man but Seatle gonna a loose by 20. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Go Steelers..sorry man but Seatle gonna a loose by 20 - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
w00t - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
"great IE rendering machine"
cough... - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
Could somone please confirm this certificate? I had to instal it to be able to instal v7.0.5299.0. Thanks forward.
Thumbprint (sha1): 2BD63D28 D7BCD0E2 51195AEB 519243C1 3142EBC3
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/5325/untitled0dr.jpg - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
Football no, please, if you want really good sport watch UEFA Champions League matches (soccer). The best footballers on the world play in Europe. :) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Will, IE is for me the most secure browser, even in beta version, so why should I have been worried. ;) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
When will the Developer toolbar for IE be updated? Chris Pederick has already doubled the amount of features in the Mozilla version and it works flawlessly.
And when's the next blog post coming? It's been a while now. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hi Ron,
We're working on getting an updated preview of the developer toolbar out soon. Are there specific features you'd like to see added to it?
I think you'll be seeing another blog post soon too :)
Thanks
-Dave - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hehe You all playing football, Great job ur team done with IE 7 beta 2 i love it specialy graphics and wonder why google is not there as a serch wender i dont think u all forgot abt google LOL anyway IE 7 beta 2 Rocks - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Holy moly! I just downloaded the developer preview of IE7 and I have never been so disappointed about a software release since Pacman for the Atari 2600. I had been defending you guys at IE development for ages and you made me eat my shoes. The interface is a step down, there is not better CSS support than IE6 and... well I need say no more. The worst part is there isn't even a way to uninstall it. I am now 100% Firefox guy now thanks to IE7. Thanks but no thanks. This is the beginning of the end of MS. You heard it here first. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
You can uninstall IE7 using Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. You need to check "Show Updates" to see the IE7 entry.
And by the way, you're far from the first, or the last, person to say "beginnning of the end of MS". - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Larry Zoumas-
One developer preview destroyed your confidence in MS? I'd hate to here your views about your weather-man...
I for one can't wait for IE7. (you didn't like Pacman? How do you live day by day?) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
"Holy moly! I just downloaded the developer preview of IE7 and I have never been so disappointed about a software release since Pacman for the Atari 2600."
Take out your anger in the Browser Wars then.
http://stephenbrooks.org/games/browserwars/ ( via http://www.digg.com/links/War_of_the_browsers... ) - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
ahem type the three dots after the URL. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
To John A Billick III:
If Frozencow asks how to report bugs in IE7 isn't it be better to point to a site where you can report IE7 bugs such as:
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorer7Bugs
than to an old site for reporting IE6 rendering problems?
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The channel 9 reference was posted a long time ago here ("what we talk about..."). However, you don't find it when searching for bugs (since it only talks about "feedback" etc). - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Great, you have to fix the most used browser in the world and you're wasting time watching TV. So USA, that is. - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I really like the new tab preview feature, and have some ideas to make tabs even better:
1. Allow multiple rows of tabs like you get in the control panels (display settings). This way, all of the text isn't crammed into an unreadable bit when you have lots of tabs open. (you could make this feature off by default if too many rows of tabs confuses users)
2. Allow tabs to be rearranged. This would be useful to oragnize your information, like you could put related tabs closer together. This is especially important if you're saving your tab groups because this means that the tabs are living longer (you're saving them and reloading them later).
3. Allow tabs to be dragged between IE windows. If I have two IE's open side by side on a big monitor, and i'm browsing on one and click on a link, sometimes I want to view that link side by side with the first page. I can then drag that new tab over to the other IE window to make that happen. (Instead of copying the URL, opening a new tab in the other window and then pasting). This is sort of an extension of request #2.
Is posting on this blog the best way to make these kinds of requests? Or is there another venue that's better?
Thanks,
Victor Lee - Anonymous
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January 01, 2003
Seahawks WIN! Seahawks WIN!!!! Seahawks WIN!!!!!!!! - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
The both claimed it was available for download, now CNET has retracted and their site says "plans"..
Linkage to the download would be appreciated.
Thx - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Yeah, minor mess up there. We expected the download site to be available at 9:00am PST. It took a little while longer to prop the pages to all our servers. We waited to post to the blog until the pages were up, but some news sources who we had pre-briefed still had the 9:00am time and went live then.
-- Tony - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Finally, official IE 7 beta has been released, I wanted it at Christmas as the present, but nevermind. Well, anyone knows, where I could find some info about new reg values? I want to add them to my reg file, but I cannot find out, what they actually do. Values: 180A, 180C, 2103, 2104, 2301. Following site was really usefull, but I do not think, that it will be updated sooner than in summer. :'(
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=182569 - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
One more question, if I can ask. I have just noticed, that the released preview is the v7.0.5296.0 and the version, that has leaked to internet before was v7.0.5299.0. Does it mean, that 5299 is unstable and I should not have to use it? - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
TheTom.SK,
It is probably not a good idea to use software that isn't officially released that someone broke NDA by pirating onto the Internet. So, no, you should not use 5299 if you are running it.
- Al Billings [MSFT] - Anonymous
January 31, 2006
@TheTOM: 180A and 180C are used internally and not documented.
The following are new values:
0x2103 Allow status bar updates via script (URLACTION_FEATURE_SCRIPT_STATUS_BAR)
0x2104 Always show address bar on windows(URLACTION_FEATURE_FORCE_ADDR_AND_STATUS)
0x2301 Run antiphishing check (URLACTION_ALLOW_APEVALUATION) - Anonymous
February 01, 2006
It's a real shame that there are some on here for whom a little fun is just too much of an encroachment on their bland life. Come on people, let the folks from Seattle have their day in the sun (or snow as it will be in Detroit this year ;-) If you don't like the post then don't read it. These guys work long hard hours so are entitled, IMHO, to a little fun.
And we wonder why geeks get such a bad rap as having no sense of humour! Lighten up people!
BTW, Go Seahawks ;-) - Anonymous
February 01, 2006
Dang, come on people.
Lets be serious and worry about the what matters right now in regards to IE 7, who cars about some stupid game.
What I want to know is exactly how much of delay its going to cause when Benji drives that Bus, loaded own with steel, over that little bird a couple of times?
Do you guys have grief counselors set up in advance? These are things that are important - depression has been proven to be a negative factor in production at work.
Just want to make sure you guys got this all planned out ahead of time. - Anonymous
February 04, 2006
SEAHAWKS WILL WIN - Anonymous
February 05, 2006
The Seahawks did great! The refs were really un fair. I dont know much about football but i thought they would have won if it was a fair game. They did a great job and played really hard. Nice job. - Anonymous
February 05, 2006
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February 05, 2006
The Seahawks should have won refs stunk it all up how can u sit there steelers fans and not notice the horrible calls cmon ive never seen a game that was called like this one it made me very upset even if i wasnt a seahawk fan i would have been upset i think we seahawk fans should boycott anything NFL. OK enough im judt upset with what happened next years ares thank you SEAHAWKS - Anonymous
February 06, 2006
Well, we knew it was going to happen, but it fun to watch you try!
Once again, this Blog should not contain anything but articles about IE.
Oh, btw, any chance of a survey for this blog? E.g. an ongoing weekly survey for the feedback you guys really need on post topics etc.?
Sample Survey:
What is the main reason why you will upgrade to IE7, but choose to use a better browser instead?
() Firefox's Extensions
() Opera's Speed
() Web Standards Support (CSS, DOM, XHTML)
() Not tied to the Operating System
() An annoying IE Feature that jusk makes using it a pain (e.g. new window opens last page)
() Security
() Extended Bookmarks / Live Bookmarks
() Open Bug Tracking System / User input appreciated, noted, and acted on
[Submit]
You can pretend that the above, is just another rant, but I think you will find, that with this kind of candid feedback, you will be able to identify, what it is that most users hate most about IE.
(Then again, you might have to change the radio buttons to checkboxes to get acurate feedback.)
Steelers Fan! - Anonymous
February 06, 2006
Rick - You lost. Get over it. Thanks kid - Anonymous
February 06, 2006
@Game Kid.
Nice link ;-) Funnie thing is, you can't play!
You have to be using a browser that wasn't the last / winning player, thus every time I go there, I can't play.
(hint hint, Firefox dominates all boards, all the time)
re superbowl game. It was a fun game hope all MS develops enjoyed it, it was close, better luck next tmie. - Anonymous
June 08, 2009
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