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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.