Tag Archives: browsers

Sadly

April 30th, 2010

I’m not sure “sadly” is the right word, “inconveniently” feels more apt. Who’s at fault here? Chrome for not being able to read a file from disk or Firefox for having a strange lock on that file? I have to deal with this as a user? It’s no wonder people don’t upgrade.

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IE7 to be distributed via Automatic Update

July 27th, 2006

More news on the Internet Explorer front from the IE blog:

As we get close to the final availability of Internet Explorer 7, I want to provide an update on our distribution plans. To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates (AU) shortly after the final version is released for Windows XP, planned for the fourth quarter of this year.

There will be the option to roll back to IE6 at any point or ignore the update (up to a certain point I should imagine) for those corporate installations that need to take their time about these things.

I think pumping it out through Automatic Update is a good thing, and not just from the security point of view. As a web developer I’m all for a mechanism that gets a more standards compliant rendering engine out there onto as many computers as possible. The memories of the upgrade path from IE5 to IE6, and watching visitor statistics slowly change, is still indelibly etched on my mind.

I’m still confused about what they’re playing at with the user interface though.

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Safari Passes the Acid2 Test

April 28th, 2005

Dave Hyatt has done it.

(More on the Acid2 test at the Web Standards Project)

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More IE7 Details

April 25th, 2005

Chris Wilson has posted some more details about IE7 on the IEBlog, and so far so good. Looks like it’s more than just a security fix with better standards support on the way. So far he’s confirmed alpha channel support in PNGs and fixes to the peekaboo and guillotine bugs.

In other news Dave Hyatt is rattling through Safari’s Acid2 bugs. I’m beginning to think he doesn’t sleep you know.

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IE7 For Windows XP Confirmed

February 15th, 2005

Somehow I missed the Bill Gates announcement, but just picked this up on the IEBlog

Today at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7. As the guy responsible for IE, I wanted to say a couple of things about it.

First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer. This new release will build on the work we did in Windows XP SP2 and (among other things) go further to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software.

There’s no word yet on new features or improved standards support, it could just be a version number bump with nothing more than security fixes, but things are definitely going to get interesting this summer.

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