Micro$oft: IE7 Ships in a few weeks

Hi y'all,

maybe interesting for a some of you since not all want to have IE7 automatically on their system:

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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was just about ready to be shipped. The company also warned that, a few weeks after the browser's release, it would be distributed via Automatic Updates. In order to prevent mass chaos, Microsoft has said that the automatic installation of the new browser can be prevented, but how?

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Link tells how.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/micr...006/10/11/5592

~DEVELISH

thanks for posting that, :develish: .

Ah you guys are going to hate IE 7. Brace for a drop in sales. IE 7 considers "target_blank" a pop-up and doesn't open them unless the surfer control clicks the link.

This is not going to be fun.

Michael

Have you found a way around it, Michael?

not yet.

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Originally Posted by Dzinerbear

Ah you guys are going to hate IE 7. Brace for a drop in sales. IE 7 considers "target_blank" a pop-up and doesn't open them unless the surfer control clicks the link.

This is not going to be fun.

Michael

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oh bugger, guess I am going to have to change a boad load of links and scripts :(

thanks for the heads up!

Yeah that's a bugger alright -- there's lots of funny security things about it.

On the plus side though ppl can easily subscribe to your rss feeds. It's faster in many respects than ie6 in my opinion. Hmm what else oh yeah those tab things are interesting.

does it touch the window.status javascript?

Ugh! I'm fearing this update BIGTIME!

I for one will not be supporting it by installing th@ crap on a permanent box. If I have issues or hear from members, I will simply build a box; test whatever new issues arise with this garbage; remove harddrive and place it in ew_nix box and rm the mutha!

Firefox rocks my socks plenty fine!

I'm not looking forward to this at all :daddy:

I have been using IE7 for a while now (since it was in beta testing) and I’ve had no problems with it, other then things aren’t in the same place as they are in IE6. I’ve tested it out on JUB and other sites that use all types of ad delivery, 100% CSS based designs, and use of Javascript/Ajax, etc… without any problems. I’ve had no problem with it blocking target=”_blank” links as a pop up either.

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Originally Posted by andymike

I have been using IE7 for a while now (since it was in beta testing) and I’ve had no problems with it, other then things aren’t in the same place as they are in IE6. I’ve tested it out on JUB and other sites that use all types of ad delivery, 100% CSS based designs, and use of Javascript/Ajax, etc… without any problems. I’ve had no problem with it blocking target=”_blank” links as a pop up either.

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did you tweak (enter the config panel) the security settings, at all?

No, I didn’t tweak anything at all. I just downloaded the browser and browsed the net like I normally would.

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Originally Posted by Paco

did you tweak (enter the config panel) the security settings, at all?

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Originally Posted by andymike

No, I didn’t tweak anything at all. I just downloaded the browser and browsed the net like I normally would.

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well, I wonder why everybody (forums and blogs) is freakin' out over this.

Maybe because of CSS issues…? Blogs normally use a LOT of CSS and designers will use a lot of CSS Hacks to make IE perform the same function that a compliant browser would. From what I’ve read a lot of the hacks that where in place no longer work, but the problem that they where addressing still hasn’t been fixed.

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Originally Posted by Paco

well, I wonder why everybody (forums and blogs) is freakin' out over this.

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I downloaded IE7 today. It does not block the target="_blank" links, unless the pop-up blocker setting is set to "High: Block all pop-ups". This is something that IE6 will also do, however, if it's pop-up blocker is set to High.

thanks for the good news thanasis!