It looks like IE 7, better known as Longhorn, will support current standards like XHTML and CSS. If you checkout first looks at next version of Visual Studio, you‘ll see that target schema list now includes XHTML 1.0 (all three flavors). For comparison, current version (2003) goes only up to IE 5.0.
Further more, MS promises that all code Whidbey would generate will be fully XHTML compliant and it will meet accessibility guidelines. More over, it will have built-in validators for both with error explanation.
Other features include Tag Navigator (looks very similar to one seen today in Dreamweaver), better template editing (those grids will finally be usable) and (yes! give us mercy!) they don’t enforce the use of FrontPage Extensions.
Along with promised feature that it will not touch existing HTML code, this will finally be usable Microsoft product for web development.
We only have to wait several years and IE will be where Mozilla, Safari, Opera and other modern browsers are today. Yipi.
longhorn is the new version of windows isn’t it? And this doesn’t mean they will make ie standards compliant, they’re a law unto themselves
Yes, Longhorn is the next MS OS, which will be browser by itself, so one can safely equate IE 7 with Longhorn since you won’t get IE 7 as separate installation. And all that in 3–4 years.
I’m maybe overreacting, but that’s only me, the web designer stuck with IE6 for half a decade more. Bitterness just spills out…
bash Microsoft all you want. I am sick of seeing this MS bashing on all these types of so-called “help” sites.
Microsoft puts food on MY table, not sure about others. And the mere fact that things in IT are DIFFERENT across platforms, OS’s and so on is what KEEPS us all working and developing and earning money.
I think the main problem here is jealousy. If everyone who complains about Microsoft has all the best ideas, then go ahead — put them out of business, already, with your wonderful product!
Problem is, people dont like to put their words into actions.
Bottom line people, deal with it. Microsoft isnt a terrorist organization and probably has created MORE jobs, itself as well as across the industries, than the sum of all US Presidents since Microsoft’s inception.
My God — stop the whining already before I throw some crackers and cheese at you all.
For starters, please out your or some other name, but name.
On the issue itself, I don’t whine, I deal with MS browser product every day. And yes, I will curse them every time they make me work 2h or 3h more than I want too.
Just as I did with Netscape, in the days of 4.0 browsers when IE4 was better in all aspects. I’m looking forward to the next version of VS.NET, as I see more .aspx projects on my way. The sooner the better.
The big advantage of IE is that it allows incorrect html..
Other browsers allows it too. (or 99% of the web sites will not be displayed in them).
Problem with IE is that is outdated and forgotten (for development).
Well said aleck.
Microsoft is a powerhouse of job and value creation. We are all better off in a world with MS. I just wish the Anti-Trust scabs would leave them free to make us all better off still!
I just wish M$ would not crush all those people who have a better idea and try to put it into action. Competition is good for everyone. M$ was convicted for using its monopoly gain an unfair advantage over its competition. That translate into: there was better productes out there, but M$ forced them out of business. Thanks M$, I love the sh*t we are stuck with.
M$ is a pain in the butt. They have had three years to bring IE6 up to PROPER w3c standards and they couldn’t give a damn… I have known so many pro MS people over the years and basically most of them know nothing about anything else. They are all like Borg drones following Gates and Ballmers crappy propoganda. I can’t think of any single innovations MS have invented that carry any weight. The Web was invented by Tim Berners Lee for free and he still makes no profit from people’s use of it but he carries on making our life better with his team at the www consortium setting standards for browser manufacturers to use to keep the whole thing the same across the board yet because of Microsoft’s illegal monopoly with internet explorer we still have to mess around coding stuff to suit his crappy browsers when Mozilla, firefox, Safari and Opera all play nicely. It’s a blatant misuse of power and the reason why they should have lost the anti trust battle completely. Long Live Firefox and Mozilla. Down with Internet explorer and crappy Micro$oft.
man, are you warped. everything i look at on the web looks better, plays better, etc with ie. the rest have some catching up to do.
no, i’m not a developer, so i don’t understand the ins and outs of ie gripe, but as a network engineer, i’ve had less problems than with any other browser.