Welcome 2010!
Happy Nw Year!
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
IE - worst internet browser since 1994. Thanks for nothing.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I don't agree with you goodybe. I'm using all browsers that are available for my job and must say that ie works best for me.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Happy New Year from Vietnam SEO team! I'm using IE8 and wondering which is the exact time to launch IE 9 guys?Anonymous
January 01, 2010
And let's hope IE 9 is awesome and gets released this year with Windows 7 SP1. :)Anonymous
January 01, 2010
I agree with Interframe. IE9 would be a great gift for the New Year!Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Thanks, but it will take unprecedented improvement on your part to make a happy 2010 for webkids.Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Happy New Year to you, too, IE team. If you want 2010 to be happy for me, please release a browser that supports CSS3 (properly), WOFF and XHTML.Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Now if own web devopers started to write in web standards instaed of IE only (IE 7 and below) coded that would be great. Can the IE team get soemthing to tell the writers to use web stadrds?Anonymous
January 01, 2010
"Can the IE team get soemthing to tell the writers to use web stadrds?" ROFL, As if the IE team knows anything about web standards.Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Happy New Year 2010 to you too, IE Team! I hope you can improve IE and release IE9 this year, I'm testing Google Chrome vs Firefox vs IE8 and I feel that Chrome is the winner! I used to be a IE fan, but other browsers are sending me a wink ;) I hope IE9 could conquer my heart again :D Best wishes from Peru!Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Let's hope that this year brings an IE that's actually a pleasure to develop for, due to its market-leading implementation of web standards like CSS3, SVG, XHTML, HTML5, and so on... a web developer can dream, can't I?Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Happy new year! If it isn't too much trouble, I'd like to get an update on progress of IE9. And maybe some idea about whether there will be improvements to DOM support.Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Hi !! Happy new year and long life to ie team :-)Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Hi !!! Happy new year !! and long life to the ie team !Anonymous
January 01, 2010
Happy New Year Looking Forward for the best browser release ever! Feature request 1: Great feedback loop, so we could engineer ie9 togetherAnonymous
January 01, 2010
@hd: What's wrong with Connect? It has been around for almost 4 years now. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/24/560095.aspxAnonymous
January 02, 2010
Hi !!! Happy new year !! and long life to the ie team !Anonymous
January 02, 2010
happy new year IE team, waiting for IE9Anonymous
January 02, 2010
Thanks! Happy NIE logow Year you too!Anonymous
January 02, 2010
Happy New Year, too, and best wishes for 2010! We are all eagerly waiting for ie9, as you can see. Make it a great browser, please!Anonymous
January 02, 2010
Is the (R) "registered" character even worth it if it's been resized into a blur of black pixels?Anonymous
January 02, 2010
Happy new year and happy new decade to the IE team and fellow web designers. :-) Looking forward to testing the first beta of IE9.Anonymous
January 02, 2010
¡Feliz Año Nuevo, IETeam! Love IE8 (though Chrome is looking interesting) and can't wait for the next version. Hopefully y'all release a 8.x version before IE9.Anonymous
January 02, 2010
Hey I have a problem with IE8 only on Windows 7 and not on XP. Basically I use an app called "TrayIt" which can send programs to the notification area. When I download files using IE8, I send the IE8 download window to the tray by right clicking on the Close button. But this does not work with IE8 on Windows 7 32-bit although this works perfectly with IE8 on Windows XP. Please rectify this/fix this incompatibility. Why is the IE8 download window on Windows 7 non-standard?Anonymous
January 02, 2010
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January 02, 2010
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January 03, 2010
i just want to comment about IE 7 sometime when i want to loading the page it will jam then close all my loading page. However, there are some page that i want to go thru it doesn't load. I hope that IE can be more improve.Anonymous
January 03, 2010
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January 03, 2010
I hope IE 9 is released in the 6 months!... and I hope it has an auto update... an auto update like all the other browsers... So you can feed out updates... And to solve the IE 6 problem once and for all...Anonymous
January 03, 2010
Another bug is if you set the system date behind by 1 day to "view the history by order visted today" (as in the history by order visted the previous day) IE8 simply crashes and clears/resets the entire history whereas IE7/IE6 showed the history of the previous day if it had not been cleared. Often it happens that after 0:00 (the next day) I am unable to view the history of the previous day BY ORDER MOST VISITED (I know I can always view history by date but order most visited or order visited on a specific day is more useful) so IE should not crash when setting the date 1 day back.Anonymous
January 03, 2010
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January 03, 2010
"Happy NIE logow Year" to you guys too! 2010, definitely not the year of accessibility.Anonymous
January 03, 2010
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January 04, 2010
Any chance we'll see updated IE8 that prints what you see on the web page rather than refetching the page. Refetching the page will often undo all of the javascript enabled checkboxes, buttons, etc. that you have clicked on. Save as a tiff or pdf with tiff images inside of it would be nice as well.Anonymous
January 04, 2010
Greg, the pages don't redownload unless the caching headers say they should. I don't know if that means that AJAX stuff won't get reset if not redownloaded though. As for saving to an image file: Most PDF programs (e.g. Acrobat) will install themselves as a printer driver so you can do exactly that. If you have Office 2007, you'll see the XPS printer driver is installed that lets you save pages as a WYSIWYG XPS file.Anonymous
January 04, 2010
New year with iexplore ? Why not... HAPPY NEW YEAR 1910 ! Owww... amidoingitwrong ? :]Anonymous
January 04, 2010
Considering how much misery IE has caused me in my web development career, it's almost insulting to see this post. Kudos for the rapid improvement in web standards support shown between IE7 and IE8. You'll need another major release or two with the same level of improvement to be considered a modern browser.Anonymous
January 04, 2010
@EricLaw: I don't think that screen readers do text recognition on image files! Since the 'IE logo' alt section is 'IE logo', screen readers will read 'Happy N-IE logo-w Year!' - which is meaningless. It is, also, an inappropriate use of the 'alt' attribute: for images that contain text (as is the case here, with the 'e' logo intended to be used as 'e' letter), 'alt' should cite said text (alt="e"); the image's description should be found in the 'longdesc' (longdesc="IE logo") attribute.Anonymous
January 04, 2010
Ouch - small error. The 'longdesc' attribute must contain an URI as value; the URI is to point to a text file that contains the actual description. But... LONGDESC is not supported in IE at all. Firefox doesn't provide a GUI to its content by default (only a 'description' in the image's extended properties), but the Longdesc extension does.Anonymous
January 05, 2010
this post is completely understandable with a screen reader. find something else to complain about.Anonymous
January 05, 2010
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January 05, 2010
Happy New Year too !!! Looking forward to see how the Web will evolve this year.Anonymous
January 05, 2010
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January 05, 2010
Steve, time and again, web developers and users have told us that platform stability is very important to them. Adding new platform features to already-released browsers would be contrary to their interests and cause a wide variety of problems. We are eager (and working hard) to get IE9 into the hands of developers so that they can take advantage of its improved standards support and other goodies.Anonymous
January 05, 2010
Happy new year and happy new decade to the IE team and fellow web designers.Anonymous
January 05, 2010
This logo would surely look good in SVG… (last years too)Anonymous
January 09, 2010
@Eric -- But all the other browser seem to do it with no customer complaints or problems? and they have super fast upgrade rate... The problem is not getting it in the hands of the developers faster... The problem you have is getting the consumers to evolve with technology in a way that is usable, easy, has minimal interference with their daily activities, makes them happy with the end result, and excited for future upgrades.... you keep failing miserably at this.... that is why IE 6 is still around... and why when I don't look forward to upgrading my XP... but look forward to upgrading my mac...Anonymous
January 09, 2010
Happy new year and happy new decade to the IE team and fellow web designers. SotiriosAnonymous
January 09, 2010
@EricLaw, As others have pointed out, the alt text for the IE logo in this post is wrong. Alt text should not say what the image IS, it should say what the image is ABOUT. Right now the contents of this post still reads "Happy NIE Logow Year!" Some users have commented that they don't have a problem with that, which is great, but it's still a flaw which will impediment some users. Additionally, when you put an image (or any tag) inside a word, a screen reader will not understand that it's supposed to be a word, and will read the parts separately. So even if the alt text was right (alt="e"), it would be read: "Happy — ehn — ee — double-you — year". Which would be decent but could be better. The right solution would be to have all the "New" word as a single image. Which means that, in order to get typographic cohesion, you would probably need to create the whole sentence as a single image, thus: <img alt="Happy New Year!">. Or maybe: <img alt="Happy New Year With Internet Explorer!">.Anonymous
January 10, 2010
forlent, which users do you suppose this issue "will impediment" [sic]? (The fact that you're wearing glasses in photos on your flikr feed suggest that you yourself are not blind). I don't think anyone cares about this fluff post, and if you think this ALT text is even slightly confusing when compared to the majority of sites as read by a screenreader, you clearly have never used one.Anonymous
January 10, 2010
@Steve, other browsers have problems with upgrades too! I can't upgrade to FF3.5 (it always crashes when I try to start it), and I like ff3.0 better. Unfortunately, FF will drop support soon and force me to upgrade, so I'll probably move to Chrome or Opera. I used to like and use Opera, but they don't even really try to keep compatibility from version to version, and after I bought Opera (they used to charge for it) and spent hours and hours customizing it, I upgrade to the next version and they blew all of my customizations away. You should spend some time looking at the breaking changes lists and the bug databases of other browsers before you suggest that it's all sweetness and light everywhere else. And let's not even talk about the workplace, where FF and other browsers won't even work at all on our intranet sites...Anonymous
January 10, 2010
@Sean, it's true that the fast pace of version upgrades and support dropping for other browsers has its flaws. It works for most (not all) home users, but might be a problem in the workplace. The fact that only IE (and, often, specific versions of IE) works for many corporate intranet sites is a different matter, though. @Bored, thank you for replying using such a nice and engaging nickname, and sorry about the language mistake. The reason i wrote the comment you found boring was that i am a front-end developer (i code HTML for food), and i thought this was an opportunity to remind fellow coders of some technical details and good practice regarding alt text. I'm not blind and i rarely use screen readers. But i do have some knowledge of HTML and how screen readers react to it. The issue i commented on was not a big one, but i hoped that my comment might help a few fellow coders learn a few things.Anonymous
January 10, 2010
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January 10, 2010
Happy new year to Internet Explorer team as well, all the best in 2010 with a lot success.Anonymous
January 14, 2010
Happy new year to all the team :)