IE7 - hard to be excited

Microsoft has announced plans for IE 7, but it's kind of hard to excited about it. Why? Because it's pretty clear that they're being dragged kicking and screaming into it. How can I get excited about using a product that Microsoft clearly isn't excited about creating? I have little faith they they will do much beyond to the absolutely minimum they need to do to stem the migration to Firefox.

4 Comments

  • Wait until you see it. You might change your mind.

  • Robert,

    I hope you're right - I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.

  • One big thing I've learned to love about Firefox is the simple extensibility model. MS Extensibility for IE will probably always involve installing something that may or may not trash my system and can't be uninstalled. Firefox extensibility is really simple, and I've gotten hooked on all the cool extensions.

  • Jon,

    Yes, the extensibility model in Firefox is fantastic. I just wish it was easier to develop against. The documentation sucks, the tools suck, the whole developer experience around extensions pretty much just sucks. I got some basic stuff working, but it was a royal pain, and figuring out how to do things inside the object model takes a lot of work.

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