Topic: IE6 Beta Released

http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie60/install/ie6/WIN98Me/en-us/ie6setup.exe


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Eddie Traversa
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Ah! I installed this on my PC at work and must admit that I was *so* happy it was possible to UN-install it too! Really, the new features were nothing to write home about, and for me on my old PIII/600 it was SLOW. I wish wish wish that I could install this and still have 5.5 to run also, doesn't Micrososft understand this desire on our part?

Your pal, -doc-

actually there are a lot of new features there for dhtml ive had IE6 for quite some time, some of the new features include new event handlers eg. onmousewheel (triggers an event with the mousewheel) onwindowleave, leave the current window and it triggers an event, theres some excellent new stuff for xml, tables have been reworked so its easier to use data in them etc. Theres a bunch of stuff there that isnt apparent at first.


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Eddie Traversa
DHTML NIRVANA
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Macromedia Resources & Various Other Goodies.
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Dynamic XHTML Developers Guide
Currently being written by Jeff Rouyer and little ol me
Let you know about a firm release date as soon as I know.
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Still, the slowness! I wish I could run both, it would make my testing ever so much easier. I'll probably continue to drag my heels, no sense developing for something that most people won't be able to see. You're in a different boat than I, preparing for the future (if you write, you usually gotta write about stuff that isn't finished being invented yet!) Me, I'm the big implementation king, usually only interestede in what works *right now*, heh.

Speaking of books, has anyone else seen the new Javascript Programmers Reference from Wrox? It's just a BIG FAT syntax guide, including the newest DOMs, I'm pretty happy with it. It doesn't pretend to teach you how to program, it just tells you the syntax, and what browser what works on. Good stuff.

Your pal, -doc-

It depends on how you define the future :-) the book stuff works on DOM capable browsers which is really where all the development time and code comes from. So if you throw out ns4 and opera then jeffs and I code works on IE5+ and NS6 but the future aspect comes from the xhtml part (even though we have it working its not widely used as yet), so i think your right from this perspective.

I havent seen the new book from wrox but will go get it.

I dont find IE6 slow, I find it quicker than IE5.5 I have dual disks so i run both. ANd yeah I agree 100% i really wish MS would allow multiple versions of browsers on the same os, without having to partition disks and such.


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Dynamic XHTML Developers Guide
Currently being written by Jeff Rouyer and little ol me
Let you know about a firm release date as soon as I know.
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what happened? the link is not working for me!!!

I tried to d/L IE5.5 but the friggin thingy never would work.... 5.0? whatever i have is really pretty darn fast... the only think that is missing that i know of is that the scroll bars are not customizable and twitches^ sight is jacked... i swear, code is missing, i printed it out and read it many times.... NS6 taks way to long to load. geez, and I have over 300meg of Ram and 60gigs...

MS pulled the preview release from their site. So it wont be available till monday


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Eddie Traversa
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Let you know about a firm release date as soon as I know.
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Doc,

I agree...MS has no sensitivity towards our needs for comparative browsing. But that's probably because the browser has become part of the OS and two versions won't live in the same partition. Ever tried partitioning so as to run multiple copies/versions? I think it can be done. On the other hand, prolly can't run two windows sessions simultaneously off the same HD.

you have to reboot the machine into another os to run another version of IE. Its a pain beleive me and i wish they would allow mutiple IE versions on the same OS. Windows XP gets released as a kind of public beta (you have to sign up to recieve it) this week, maybe someone here knows whether that OS allows mutliple IE versions.

One dissapointing thing thus far about IE6 is no 32 bit png alpha support. I hope they get that in for the final release.

The good news is it has much better dom, xml and css support than ever before.


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Eddie Traversa
DHTML NIRVANA
Multiple Award Winning Sites
Macromedia Resources & Various Other Goodies.
http://www.dhtmlnirvana.com/
--------------------------
Dynamic XHTML Developers Guide
Currently being written by Jeff Rouyer and little ol me
Let you know about a firm release date as soon as I know.
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Nah, they can't separate the OS from the browser now. If they did, all the claims about their marketing strategies would have merit. They aint going there. Guess that's why my default browser will always be something else.

[This message has been edited by Allewyn (edited 03-25-2001).]

i found a new source!!

its running a lot faster then 5.5 and as of yet i have not found any problems.


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