Comments on: IE7b2, is it intentionally this bad?

By: That Voodoo You Do · DOM Support in IE7

That Voodoo You Do · DOM Support in IE7 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:56:16 +0000

[...] This is from a chat in the MSDN Expert Zone, on February 9, 2006. Disappointingly, this was the most relevant quote I could find from Microsoft. Very little information about IE7’s expected level of DOM support is being released. However, there are already grumblings in the community about IE7 Beta. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:16:14 +0000

Just to ditto what Erik said. MS is done with IE7. Don’t expect much more but IE6 in a new wrapper.

By: Erik Arvidsson

Erik Arvidsson — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:48:27 +0000

boohiss: MS has said that IE7b2 is feature complete and I doubt they are going to touch DOM/JS after beta two when they haven’t touched this in 5 years.

By: José Jeria

José Jeria — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:49:46 +0000

What worries me the most is that Microsoft is not part of the “Web Applications 1.0″ conversations…

By: boohiss

boohiss — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:57:34 +0000

Well, it IS a beta, after all. Not saying you shouldn’t bring these issues up, but I wouldn’t cry havoc and release the dogs of war until there’s a final version released.

By: Erik Arvidsson

Erik Arvidsson — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:07:38 +0000

iframeObject.contentDocument… come on, how hard can this be. Someone could do this in less than 5 minutes if they already have the build working.

By: Tino Zijdel

Tino Zijdel — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:02:54 +0000

They didn’t even bother to fix substr()

By: IE7 Beta 2 Preview: Rocks or Sucks? » Bill’s Baby

IE7 Beta 2 Preview: Rocks or Sucks? » Bill’s Baby — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:57:34 +0000

[...] #8217;s working Erik Arvidsson managed to find a couple of things he liked in his “IE7b2, is it intentionally this bad?” post: There are a few goodies in here. I really [...]