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DrupalCon San Francisco 2010

Perhaps IE7 is an improvement

I know giving Microsoft a hard time is everyone's best pastime sport, but perhaps IE7 is an improvement over IE6. While there have been some complaints about IE7 "breaking" sites...the uproar is a lot quieter than I expected. I had anticipated a little bit more from the general public. Also, it is also nice to note that IE7 isn't included in many of the "critical"updates that the rest of the IE suite are.

From the IEBlog:

This is a “Critical” update that applies to all supported IE configurations from IE5.01 to IE6 for XPSP2 and IE6 for Server 2003 Service Pack 1 except IE7 where the associated vulnerabilities do not affect this newer platform. As always, IE security updates are cumulative and contain all previously released updates for each version of IE. Read More...

By the way, the "uproar" from the enterprise may be quiet for a different reason. Many larger organizations have blocked IE7 from installing on their network until then get a better handle on what IE7 doesn't do that IE6 did do. At least that's what I did for my office...

Comments

#1 Converting Flash Pages to .pdf in IE7 ... NO MORE !!!

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One of the features I have used to good effect in my work, is the ability to hit the convert .pdf icon on my IE6 tool bar when viewing a Flash Website, and extracting the resultant movie for use in a separate .pdf document. IE7 has stopped this ... WHY ????? I am running the latest version of Acrobat 7 DO I really have to assume that Acrobat 8 MIGHT cure this ludicrous situation.
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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.