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Meet more of the team

All four of the Channel 9 videos where I take the camera on a tour of the team are now avaialble.

Part 1 - I talk for too long about IE7 adn then we walk the hallways adn met random members of the team.
Part 2 - We chat to Max Stevens on User Experience.
Part 3 - A few of the RSS team discuss the new functionality in IE7 and the RSS platform for Windows.
Part 4 - We discuss networking with Eric Lawrence creator of Fiddler and Katya Sedova. This is a great in depth discussion. In chats with Eric it seems I always learn something new. At the end Pete LePage discusses the forthcomign contest for writing extensions to IE.

We had a lot of fun making this video. You may notice I change my shirt after the first video. That's because the battery on the camera died so Charles had to come back again on another day. It's a nice camera though, all hard disk and no tape.

Thanks
-Dave

Published Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:49 PM by DMassy

Comments

# IE7 even poor than IE6 in display CSS @ Friday, October 20, 2006 12:09 AM

In IE7 RC1, I found my homepage couldn't display in right, which works fine in IE6 and firefox. But in your final version of IE7 problem still there. Is that CSS display really hard to settle?

Robin Hoo

# re: Meet more of the team @ Friday, October 20, 2006 9:03 AM

Robin,

See the document at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/IETechCol/cols/dnexpie/ie7_css_compat.asp

As we've explained before sites that rely on the incorrect behavior of IE6 and use strict mode may need to be updated not that the incorrect behavior has been corrected.

Thanks

-Dave

DMassy

# re: Meet more of the team @ Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:25 AM

As a developer I applaud your advancements toward css compliance. As a UI person I've got to ask, "Are you kidding?" Why did you give up positionable menu bars? And why do I have to be on a page with an RSS feed to see the RSS tab light up? An RSS tab should be able to stay visible and notify the user if a new item is available. And what's up with the RSS reader format? It is so unusable you might as well have left it out. Font sizes too large, spread across the whole page... I secretly believe you want this version to fail so you can get out of the browser business because it makes you no money. Good luck!

mark

# re: Meet more of the team @ Monday, October 23, 2006 5:57 PM

mark,

The issue of lack of customisation of the toolbars is addressed in the second of the videos above. It's something we hope to improve in the next version of IE. The suggestion that we secretly want this version of IE to fail is nothing short of silly. IE7 is proving to be a great release and the investments in security, user experience and platform are significant.

I'm confused by your question "And why do I have to be on a page with an RSS feed to see the RSS tab light up?" What RSS tab are you referring to? If you mean the RSS button then I think it is clear that without an RSS feed available the button offers no functionality and is therefore disabled when no RSS feed is present on the page.