June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

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re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Quality Directory — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:50:04 GMT

I can't miss this opportunity to go to this chat session. And I will write down all the questions I want to ask the team on a piece of paper, to make it handy.

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Mohammad — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:07:01 GMT

I'll be there :)

I don't have many questions :)

thanks for ur time

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gunther — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:43:08 GMT

@Quality Directory - hope to see you there! Keep that piece of paper handy because the IE chat application won't let you paste questions or code into the chat (known bug they have no intention to fix since it was disclosed in the IE7 beta chats)

Sad really. They claim to be so open to open standards, moving the web forward and being transparent but they fail at every step along the way with obstacles, delays and marketing fluff.

June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Donna's SecurityFlash — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:50:45 GMT

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, June 18th at 10.00

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Olivier — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:55:33 GMT

I've using ie8 since a few weeks now & i believe it's the first version of ie i like since ... so many years.

Congrats for you work ;)

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

dlh2009 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:28:58 GMT

For the past few weeks I have been messing around with many different web browers. One of the web browers that I particularly like is Apple's Safari. It loads fast, has a clean and simple interface. Now, I want to know why Microsoft is allowing Apple to get ahead on speed, features, and web standards. I also want to know why Microsoft doesn't use an open source rendering engine instead of theirs. Open source engines seem to be up with the web standards a lot faster than IE. Firefox and Safari are good examples of this. If I was Microsoft I would think about switching to an open source rendering engine or simply scrapping IE for a open source browser.

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Kiran — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:05:52 GMT

Willing to join for chat. IE8 is good one, but certainly needs some more improvements.

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Rob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:02:26 GMT

I'd love to know their comments on the following: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeresig/sets/72157619870137650/detail/

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

steve — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:02:49 GMT

@Rob - interesting indeed. Nothing like verbally bashing the competition when the rest of the world doesn't think IE is up to par.

The Epic Fail when you view the page in IE8 is classic. Force IE7 rendering when you want IE8 usage - way to go!

PS on the other hand I wouldn't mind winning 10 grand. any chance this will open up to the non-Australian population?

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turquie voyage — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:16:46 GMT

We must have asked about bugs and security problems at IE 8

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mark adelman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:35:50 GMT

you all kill me ie8 is fine but how about making it color aware!.

what a joke it can't recognize icc profiles.

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

view and see.

sickening to me an avid microsoft user.

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

GP_IE_develop — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:26:32 GMT

I'll be surely there...I need to ask about IE8 Inprivate features and its API for .NET

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Geld lenen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:35:30 GMT

I will be there, have some questions about security options on IE.

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Hypotheekrente — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:51:04 GMT

Yes, it can't recognize icc profiles, that is quite distirbing to me too!

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Rob — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:15:37 GMT

While they're at it, howabout some of this utterly partisan FUD:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

Not that most people use IE because of Microsoft's comparisons, they use it because it's installed already and no kind soul's taken the time to introduce them to Firefox. It's just a bit annoying how stupid those comparisons are, and I wondered if the dev team also had the freedom to admit to finding them annoying.

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EricLaw — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:58:38 GMT

@Rob: I don't see how a checklist is going to inspire any fear. I agree that it might inspire some uncertainty and doubt in those that only tend to hear the unsubstantiated claims of browser zealots who prefer another browser. That's the point of the chart-- to get folks to do some research and get the facts for themselves.

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James — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:16:31 GMT

@Rob:"partisan FUD"?

It's PR; not FUD. There's no statements there saying "Firefox might corrupt your system!" - it's simply PR saying "IE is better than Firefox & Chrome."

partisan - an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

I kind of expect & hope that Microsoft IS an enthusiastic supporter of their browser. I would hope that Mozilla is of theirs and Apple of theirs, etc.

Did you actually expect MS to post Firefox and Chrome advertisements on their website though? Do Google and Mozilla have advertisements & PR pieces in favor of IE on their websites?

Frankly though Firefox extensions and IE webslices are not impressive - I don't use either. Firefox performs better than IE on old machines with less memory. IE is more compatible with more websites than Firefox. Chrome won't do NT Authentication at all and I need a 3rd web browser like I need a hole in the head.

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

William J. Edney — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:14:19 GMT

Microsoft folks -

It's been almost a week.

Any chance we'll see the transcript soon?

Cheers,

- Bill

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

Allison [MSFT] — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:39:33 GMT

The June IEChat transcript is now live:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/09_0618_ez_ie8.mspx

re: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team on Thursday

William J. Edney — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:55 GMT

Allison -

A few words that you Microsoft folks should see here a bit more often:

Thank you.

Cheers,

- Bill