Comments on: Not Touching IE 7 till RTM http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben Reichelt’s Weblog » Ok, I lied, I installed it http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Ben Reichelt’s Weblog » Ok, I lied, I installed it Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:30:41 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-663 [...] So I decided to take the plunge and install IE7, even though I said I never would. I just couldn’t help myself, the most recent screenshots that I had seen looked pretty sexy, and it’s in beta 3, hell thats about as good as it gets! [...] [...] So I decided to take the plunge and install IE7, even though I said I never would. I just couldn’t help myself, the most recent screenshots that I had seen looked pretty sexy, and it’s in beta 3, hell thats about as good as it gets! [...]

]]> By: breichelt http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-662 breichelt Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:07:00 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-662 Oh man! VS uses IE too, wow, that would REALLY annoy me to have that get screwed up! good call Rumen! Oh man! VS uses IE too, wow, that would REALLY annoy me to have that get screwed up! good call Rumen!

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-661 Anonymous Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:18:34 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-661 Yes, very good point. IE7 does affect additional programs. In my case Visual Studio, I've blogged on this topic here: http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/rumen_stankov/archive/2006/02/07/106.aspx Yes, very good point. IE7 does affect additional programs. In my case Visual Studio, I’ve blogged on this topic here:

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/rumen_stankov/archive/2006/02/07/106.aspx

]]> By: breichelt http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-660 breichelt Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:48:34 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-660 Jay, I had only seen the method that Scott Hanselman outlined, which sounded like it really screwed your system up! On Jon's post he says that installing it stand alone mode renders some features unavailable, which is the stuff that I want to see :) I'll probably go the virtual pc route Jay, I had only seen the method that Scott Hanselman outlined, which sounded like it really screwed your system up! On Jon’s post he says that installing it stand alone mode renders some features unavailable, which is the stuff that I want to see :)

I’ll probably go the virtual pc route

]]> By: jkimble http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-659 jkimble Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:13:03 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-659 Ben, Did you see this? http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/02/02/437196.aspx Jon shows you how to run them side by side (sort of)... you can't run them at exactly the same time, but you can play with IE7 without fully installing it! Ben,

Did you see this? http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/02/02/437196.aspx

Jon shows you how to run them side by side (sort of)… you can’t run them at exactly the same time, but you can play with IE7 without fully installing it!

]]> By: breichelt http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-658 breichelt Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:45:47 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-658 Oskar, yes, thats a great example with Yahoo! I know they use IE for their music engine as well, so who knows if that would screw up too. Derick, thats also a good idea, but I never can get the performance from a virtual pc, but maybe i'll give it a shot when its slow some day :) Eber, i definitely upgrade firefox, especially with auto updates turned on Oskar, yes, thats a great example with Yahoo! I know they use IE for their music engine as well, so who knows if that would screw up too.

Derick, thats also a good idea, but I never can get the performance from a virtual pc, but maybe i’ll give it a shot when its slow some day :)

Eber, i definitely upgrade firefox, especially with auto updates turned on

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-657 Anonymous Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:43:12 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-657 just make sure you get the latest update to FireFox (1.5.1?), seems to fix the terrible memory leak problems in 1.5 just make sure you get the latest update to FireFox (1.5.1?), seems to fix the terrible memory leak problems in 1.5

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Anonymous Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:41:18 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-656 That's why Microsoft bought out Virtual PC from whoever created it, and gives it to us MSDN subscribers... I'll just setup a new XP Pro instance on a VM and dl IE7 into that, to see what all the hoopla is about. That’s why Microsoft bought out Virtual PC from whoever created it, and gives it to us MSDN subscribers… I’ll just setup a new XP Pro instance on a VM and dl IE7 into that, to see what all the hoopla is about.

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Anonymous Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:32:12 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/02/09/not-touching-ie-7-till-rtm/#comment-655 Yeah, who would have thought that something like Yahoo Messenger or Grouper would be affected by installing the beta? Alas, they are. :( Yeah, who would have thought that something like Yahoo Messenger or Grouper would be affected by installing the beta? Alas, they are. :(

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