IE7 to Require Web Pages to be Rewriten?

[PhYmon]

I dont think this is right! I going still using Firefox, the best out there! hehee here is the link http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1943847,00.asp

[AntiRealityHero]

"If Web sites and advertising units aren't re-authored, Microsoft warned that ActiveX Controls and Java Applets will require user activation before the user can interact with the control."

Shouldn't it require user activation? Are they telling me that now as long as a hacker codes according to these new specifications, I'll never know that I'm vulnerable?

Seems it should be an "ask once, remember preference" kinda thing for users to allow trustworthy sites, instead of "run code without user input".

[chrispy]

I'm not seeing how this is necessarilly a bad thing. It sounds alot like that click to play Flash extention for Firefox. Anything that discourages people from making entire websites in Flash is fine by me.

[Garfunkel]

there is a simple way to get around this


get FireFox!

[err_ok]

I know it will never happen but i sometimes wish MS would just give up and ship windows with Firefox installed and no crappy IE.

[Z]

I believe MS can easily do a much better job than FireFox if they wanted to. I am looking forward to a serious IE update. since I first heard of FireFox I installed it and never looked back. I can't even use IE anymore. but still, MS can deliver better. I just hope they would think about the end user this time.

[err_ok]

MS have more money and resources than Mozilla but i think the fact that Mozilla's software is open source gives them a bit of an advantage.

[Viper]

Agreed. FF will always end up with more functionality than MS can ever do simply because FF is open source and it's extensions and themes simply trump what MS can do with IE. MS can try and integrate the most popular FF extensions but then you're stuck for the most part at that point. FF extensions can still be expanded and upgraded. Different version of the same extension with mild functionality differences.

MS can't touch that.

[Z]

can't MS make IE open source? or maybe some parts of it like extensions and what not?
that may not go well with their business model, yet still, it is a thought. that is why I said 'with consumers in mind'.

[err_ok]

There is not much chance of that methinks :P

Besides i doubt they could make selected parts of it open-source in order to allow extensions to be written.

[Krad]

There is not much chance of that methinks :P

Besides i doubt they could make selected parts of it open-source in order to allow extensions to be written.

There's always a way.

I believe MS can easily do a much better job than FireFox if they wanted to. I am looking forward to a serious IE update. since I first heard of FireFox I installed it and never looked back. I can't even use IE anymore. but still, MS can deliver better. I just hope they would think about the end user this time.

And IE7 isn't all that bad. I switch between them everyday. FireFox still can't display some website correctly and that's when I use IE.

[err_ok]

And IE7 isn't all that bad. I switch between them everyday. FireFox still can't display some website correctly and that's when I use IE.

Yeah, that's called bad site design...