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Posted by Neredbojias on 08/10/05 04:29
With neither quill nor qualm, Toby Inkster quothed:
> Neredbojias wrote:
> > Toby Inkster quothed:
> >
> >> Further, try IE7 <http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/>
> >
> > Will you please explain something to me. Is this "the" new IE7 in the
> > offing or is MS actually coming out with a new browser version in the
> > traditional sense of the phrase "new version"?
>
> No -- it's just a set of scripts that authors can add to their pages that
> will trick IE into supporting a lot of extra CSS 2 stuff.
>
> It was started at a time when Microsoft had just announced that Internet
> Explorer 6 was going to be the last version of Internet Explorer ever. At
> that time, choosing the name "IE7" for Dean's scripts didn't seem very
> confusing. Of course, now Microsoft is planning to release a real browser
> called Internet Explorer 7, it's not as sensibly named any more!
I anxiously await something that absolves the need to band-aid-script
Internet Explorer's flaws. During the "big trial", Microsoft execs
argued that IE wasn't really a web browser. The joke of this is that
they were more right than they knew.
--
Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.
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