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HomeHomeOur CommunityOur CommunityGeneral Discuss...General Discuss...Any Internet Explorer 7 Developer Woes?Any Internet Explorer 7 Developer Woes?
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11/25/2006 2:41 PM
 
I know that this is not a question that is directly related to DotNetNuke, but it is indirectly.  I just upgraded one of my development machines to Windows XP SP2.  In doing so I obviously have the option of also upgrading my web browser to IE 7.  However, I have not been willing to do so yet as I am still waiting for any fallout to come out from the browser upgrade. 

Now that I got that out, I wanted to find out what (if any) upgrade woes that you as developers and users have experienced as a result of upgrading IE 6 to IE 7.  Since I have been unable to find sufficient information so far, I wanted to see if I could get genuine opinions and experiences from what I hope to be unbiased sources.  :)  Any and all input is appreciated.

Will Strohl

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Official provider of the Hotcakes Commerce Cloud and SLA support
 
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11/26/2006 4:37 PM
 

In our office we run with a few different computers, and me personally, I have two computers - one for dev and email, the other for graphics and things like that.  I installed IE 7 on my graphics machine, since I knew there was no turning back, and I also have Mozilla 2.0 and Opera 1.9 (I think these are the version numbers off the top of my head)

Some of the nuisance factors with IE 7 include the behaviour of popup windows - for those which are allowed it puts into a new tab, rather than a popup and it's very annoying sometimes, but I guess I can learn to live with it.

What I have found in reference to skinning, it's behaviour is closer to Mozilla than before, and what I'm finding now it's a bit of a nuisance at time flicking between two computers and three monitors, and three browsers, fiddling with css, but I do like how it works.

The other nuisance factor is the way the icons/labels work - I can't set to my own preferences, but overall, I like the browser, the tabbed viewing is great, and I'm pleased that it's more W3C compliant than before.

The disadvantage is that you do have now a version of IE that's different to the IE6 in how it renders,and once committed, can't change back to IE 6 to view the small changes that occur.  I've spoken with a few people who have moved to IE7 but never have they suggested there are problems, but by that I mean - sure there might be some niggly things, but not enough for them to say they wish they hadn't moved forward.

I know this isn't much help but in the big scheme of things, I really like the new IE7, have found it to be stable (on my system anyway) closer to W3C compliant and it has some cool features that I think are long overdue.

Just my thoughts on the matter

Nina Meiers


Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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11/26/2006 4:53 PM
 
Nothing as bad as when IE decided to disable Flash. lol!

Jason Honingford - Web & Software Developer
www.PortVista.com
 
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11/26/2006 8:04 PM
 

From my understanding they had no option, due to some court case that forced them to implement some part of the flash.  The reason Mozilla doesn't have this is because it's an open source project, and Microsoft is not, so Mozilla didn't have to remove it.

It's like the sun java thing - where they had to remove from the browser, certain functionality.

It's easy to poin the finger at MS but in this instance (I could be wrong so anyone who knows more feel free to correct me) but that's how I understood it.

They either had to pay the company alot of money or remove something. But mozilla being free didn't have to.

Nina Meiers


Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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11/26/2006 9:21 PM
 
Right, send your hate mail to Mike Doyle http://www.eolas.com. He will probably burn in hell, but until then he's enjoying life on a huge yacht somewhere.

Jason Honingford - Web & Software Developer
www.PortVista.com
 
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