Dare is on a roll, complaining about the RSS experience in IE7. He points to a bunch of people who say that IE7 isn’t an RSS aggregator, and then for good measure, posts again saying that IE7 isn’t like RSS Bandit (an RSS aggregator).
In fact, a week earlier, Jane Kim (PM for RSS in […]
Get it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7. This release is primarily intended to help web site designers and extension developers prepare for the broad release of IE7 Beta and RTM in coming months. I have been using IE7 builds exclusively for several months, so it is possible to do this, but we are aware of a […]
We’ve announced that the RSS platform in Vista will permit only well-formed XML. Most people are celebrating, but there are some comments that indicate some people may be confused.
To clear things up, this statement is ONLY about well-formed XML. It is NOT a statement about validity, or conformance to any other spec, including any RSS/Atom […]
As has been reported, IE7 consolidates URI parsing code into a single library. I’ve been playing with this a bit. To IE6, the following 6 URIs are equivalent. To IE7, only 5 of the 6 are the same:
file:/c:/foo bar/x.txt — IE6 Works, IE7 Works
file:/c:/foo%20bar/x.txt — IE6 Works, IE7 Fails
file://c:/foo bar/x.txt — IE6 Works, IE7 Works
file://c:/foo%20bar/x.txt– […]
Wow, it’s nice to see the folks at positioniseverything endorsing the demise of CSS hacks in IE7.
Second to useragent string detection issues, CSS hacks that used to work in IE6 but no longer work in IE7 (due to CSS fixes) will probably be the most common cause of compatibility issues for IE7, and will cause […]