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March fifteen, 2005 2:21 PM
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Specifics Commence to Leak
Since it initial exposed per month back that it absolutely was pulling a U-turn by releasing a whole new model of Net Explorer independent of Longhorn, Microsoft has become unwilling to share a lot of particulars about its forthcoming browser.
Will Web Explorer (IE) 7.0 have tabs? Will it comply with the Cascading Design Sheet (CSS) 2.0 standard? Exactly how will it make searching a lot more secure? Will it ship in 2005?
Microsoft's solutions? No comment.
Microsoft has shared publicly that IE 7.0 will be concentrated mostly on improving safety. Organization officials said recently that Microsoft strategies to make IE 7.0 available to Windows XP Support Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Support Pack one and Windows XP Specialist x64 users. A first beta of IE seven.0 is due out this summer season.
But Microsoft is sharing rather a little a lot more IE seven.0 specifics privately with key partners, sources who requested anonymity claim.
Sources say that IE 7.0 which is code-named "Rincon," they hear will be a tabbed browser.
IE seven.0 will feature international domain name (IDN) support; transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) support,
Windows 7 Home Basic, which will allow for the display of overlayed images in the browser; and new functionality that will simplify printing from inside IE 7.0,
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(Coincidentally, or perhaps not, MSN just began testing a brand new Microsoft-developed RSS aggregator.)
Among the myriad security enhancements Microsoft is expecting to include in IE 7.0, according to partner resources:
reduced privilege mode becomes the default;
no cross-domain scripting and/or scripting access;
improved Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) user interface;
possible integration between IE 7.0 and Microsoft's Windows anti-spyware support, which currently is in beta.
Partner resources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it options to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE seven.0,
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(This is an updated edition of an article which appeared in the March 3,
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