April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

AndyWilson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:14:08 GMT

Where's the transcript!?!!? It's been ages, you said 7-10 days but now it's 11!

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

pete — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:27:14 GMT

its more than two weeks now !!!

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

hAl — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:01 GMT

No transscript yet ?

It has been more than a week now.

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:51:17 GMT

But the cumulative patches only include some IE7 files (mshtml, wininet, urlmon) and not the obscure ones. So in case there's a problem in those, users have to hunt through the knowledge base.

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

EricLaw [MSFT] — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:37:17 GMT

@Anonymous: Rather than making up new version numbers, IE servicing now is applied directly to the release version in question.

So, IE7 with the current set of patches has the latest set of updates available for IE7; you don't need to go hunt for a mythical "7.01" version.

(Contrary to your statement above, there was never a "SP2" for IE6, there was simply IE6 on XPSP2.)

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:40:20 GMT

Why has the new IE team given up servicing IE? In the past we had:

- IE 4, 4.01, 4.01 SP1, 4.01 SP2

- IE 5.0, 5.01, 5.01 SP1, 5.01 SP2

- IE 5.5, 5.5 SP1, 5.5 SP2

- IE 6.0 and 6.0 SP1. We even had IE6 SP2 on XP.

Please produce a IE7 SP1. XPSP3 and Vista SP1 are out.

Servicing helps fixing bugs, improves stability and ppl have a better experience.

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

Larry Osterman [MSFT] — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:14:25 GMT

omzg: How do you disable sounds on a per tab basis (sorry, it's an area in which I have some expertise)? IE might be able to control the handling of the <BGSOUND> tag on a per page basis, but it's not going to be able to do anything about various plugins that choose to make sound (either Flash, QT or WMP).

That's because the plugins each have their own audio infrastructure, and WMP doesn't have the ability to interfere with that.

re: April Chat with the IE Team on Thursday

Steve — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:36:27 GMT

Don't know why this wasn't a post itself on the blog (or maybe I missed it), but this interview with Chris Wilson on Channel 9:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=388331

However it is a good bit of information that many developers would likely benefit from.

As per Chris' request in the video, my JavaScript tests so far have been really good, much better speed, and the fixes for .setAttribute() and .getElementById() (that have been done so far) are very much appreciated!

The only request I have, is an Opera/Firefox type feature, to avoid infinite / extremely long running loops.

As a developer, often alert() is your best friend for debugging, but if you accidentally fire one onfocus/onblur of an input field, you end up in a great loop that is only fixable with a CTRL+ALT+DEL.

I'd love to see some heuristics around this type of thing, either like Opera, with a checkbox in the alert,confirm,prompt dialogs to "[_] Stop scripts from running on this page" or like the firefox: "A Script is causing this page to run slowly, [Continue] [Debug] [Abort]"

Heck! even if you touch the "prompt" dialog, don't add the feature, but "accidentally" check in some code that makes it *actually fit* the message! you would win major points with developers. ;-)

Thanks,

steve

GUI!

meeeee :) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:51:35 GMT

i love IE, cant stand any of the other browsers, though heres a thought:

a lot of considerations according to other websites has been size and layout, some ppl like buttons here, others there - what about customization? something like the way forms are created and changed in visual basic? have a nice default layout, but allow users to resize the various areas and relocate buttons (any not moved left in a drop down menu?)

also, what about being able to view more than one tab at once? like a right-click "tile tabs" or a button or something like that so each tab can be used at teh same time in one window?

or what about a nicer more 3D interface to go with vista - maybe being able to flip through tabs in a similar manner to coverflow in itunes?

lastly, what about a download manager instead of those annoying popups that can be closed? maybe a little progress bar somehwere and then another window to view details on each download and especially being able to pause and continue downloads if possible and recover them if the connection is lost perhaps.

i like the sound settings per tab idea above too.

TAHOMA

Tarik Harmony — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:24:39 GMT

why the font " tahoma " in IE 7 Is so baad .. ? : (

I love IE 7 but I can't use it because This reason Adversely affect in my work !!

IE 6 is good in tahoma font .. But I need any help to use IE7 .. ?