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Doom doom dooooom.. IE7 final released

Posted in Tech by Derek at 10:49 pm

Hear that? The distant sound of drums beating? It’s code monkeys making sacrificial offerings to the browser gods. We’ll hear the distant drums beating more often over the next few months as the world over begins to make the transition from Internet Explorer 6 to *gasp* Internet Explorer 7.

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP is now available for download - so says the IEBlog. I’ve been running the pre-releases of IE7 concurrently with IE6 for those lonely nights when I feel like racking my brain while previewing my own work online.

There’s a lot of hoopla going on for the latest release of IE7. Most notable is an optimized version of IE7 for Yahoo.com. Apparently .com services are going to be custom tailoring the latest IE release to better suit their audience. Mmm, can you say users-will-willingly-download-bloated-browsers?

Good luck to you all who decide to make the move to the latest release of IE7.

12 Comments, Comment or Trackback

  1. chad

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

    well, there goes half my online work down the drain…… great, so from now on I get to try and make my stuff work in FF, IE5/6, Safari, Opera…. and now IE 7 (already have problems with stuff before it was even out of beta)….

    God, I’m just going to start doing *nix shell programming or something…. I can’t take it anymore!

    Oct 19th, 2006

  2. Derek

    You have to look at the bright side, PNG support yeah! We’re going to go through a phase of glossy transparent pages.

    Oct 19th, 2006

  3. chad

    bought time…. no more sniffers switchs and moz-* css hacks :)

    Oct 19th, 2006

  4. chad

    bout time*

    Oct 19th, 2006

  5. Sam

    must get
    /sarcasm

    Oct 19th, 2006

  6. Nate MC

    but how does one install it to bypass the WGA check, last thing I want is more MS nannyware on my system.

    Oct 19th, 2006

  7. Diesel

    Nate MC!

    Look here:

    http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/08/26/install-internet-explorer-7-release-candidate-1-ie7-rc1-without-genuine-windows-validation-crack/

    I don’t see the problem though :-)

    Oct 19th, 2006

  8. Nate MC

    thanks Diesel, knew it had to be somewhere already.

    Oct 19th, 2006

  9. j2

    I hate it.

    It’s like Firefox, if Firefox was ugly and hospitalized.

    Oct 19th, 2006

  10. David

    So far my experience with IE7 is that it sucks. I’d rather have IE6 back and that had it’s own set of problems. The worst thing I’ve experienced it that it can’t seem to load a simple web page half the time. Pages that were easily accessed in IE 6 now seem to present some sort of problem for IE7. Even going to my home page, which should be simple…it’s Yahoo mail…seems to present a problem everytime I go online. IE7 says it “cannot display the web page” and then lists the following:
    Most likely causes:
    * You are not connected to the Internet. (I just openned up another browser and got this message even though I’m writing this online right now)
    * The website is encountering problems. (if I hit F5 to refresh it usually comes up…duh…there is not a problem with yahoo mail very often and there was never a problem with IE6)
    * There might be a typing error in the address. (http://mail.yahoo.com has been my home page since 1998)
    Then it offers the following options:
    * Diagnose Connection Problems (i.e. Join the Microsoft Experience Improvement Program - I suppose this would be the best option, but I never feel right about allowing MS to check out my hardware configuration even though it says no information is collected to identify or contact me.)
    Anyway, I’m likely to uninstall it soon and go get the legacy IE6 back again.

    Oct 21st, 2006

  11. Tomiko

    All i can say is the sheeple will have fun.

    Oct 22nd, 2006

  12. Paul nugent

    I d,lded “Beta” a while back and quickly uninstalled it but tonight I just had to give the final version (a mandatory update) a go. I was quite happy and surprised to find that just about every page loads faster than before. I`m not a programmer like you guys (sound like) and I`ve never used “Opera” or “firefox” or any other Browser for that matter so I dont really have a point of reference apart from IE6. I like the new look. Just for arguments sake I should point out that windows XP has always been a quite useable O/S for me, and I cant quite understand all the Microsoft bashing. I live next door to a Linux devotee so I constantly get an earfull. As a PC tech I rarely have problems finding compatible drivers or sorting out bugs/virus`s. Anyway I still havent tried it out fully so time will tell. PJ.

    Nov 9th, 2006

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