IE7 Beta 2 released | The Coffeehouse

BruceMorgan

Earlier this evening the IE team released IE7 Beta 2 (English).

This is not a preview or refresh but actually Beta 2, for XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, XP x64 edition, and even an Itanium version. In the next few weeks, we'll release Finnish, German, Japanese, and Arabic versions. This is a public beta and we are encouraging all categories of users - consumers, developers, IT professionals, everyone - to install and use it.

Download IE7 Beta 2 at http://www.microsoft.com/ie, read more about it on the IEBlog.

Manip

WOOT! ... You have no idea how much I've wanted this "Missing History" bug fixed. Thanks!

Stephen

Here goes... IE7 in 2003 SP1 - Server Reboot in 5,4,3... Big Smile

NetRyder
Tech Junkie

I was so glad to see XP x64 support. Smiley

Installed and running great. I'll be sure to report any issues that I find. Been running the beta builds on my laptop since Beta 1, but this is the first build that's made it way onto my production machine.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

BruceMorgan wrote:
This is not a preview or refresh but actually Beta 2, for XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, XP x64 edition, and even an Itanium version.

IE7 for W2k3 - whoo!

Thanks for the update. As promised on Connect, the annoying back-button-bug was fixed. Joy!

mawcc
Make it so

MSDN2 still doesn't work (e.g. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bahh2fef.aspx), so I doubt that developers who rely on this documentation are willing to make the switch.

Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

goooooooooooooooo team bruce. this is excellent news.

Stephen

"WooHoo It works on 2003 SP1"

Individual grudges of IE7 aside it is refreshing to have an update at last. Wink

BruceMorgan

mawcc wrote:
MSDN2 still doesn't work (e.g. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bahh2fef.aspx), so I doubt that developers who rely on this documentation are willing to make the switch.

Hmm. The functionality of that page seems OK, but it spikes CPU usage to near 100%. Cool find...

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In the screen shots for IE I always see the search provider indicated in the search box, but that's never happened for me.

So is the text supposed to be there or not?

mawcc
Make it so

BruceMorgan wrote:

mawcc wrote: MSDN2 still doesn't work (e.g. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bahh2fef.aspx), so I doubt that developers who rely on this documentation are willing to make the switch.

Hmm. The functionality of that page seems OK, but it spikes CPU usage to near 100%. Cool find...

The scrollbar doesn't work either. I reported this bug a couple of weeks ago here on C9 and on the Product Feedback Site.

spoofnozzle
Bite my shiney metal a$$!

Grrrrrrrr....

Honestly..!!! What is so hard about remembering my link settings and/or leaving them alone.

This crap has been going on for as long as I can remember... every time I install a new version of IE.

'Oh Wait -- I'll just re-organise your links for you... -->> there you go... I fcuked them up for you again'

Also.. I REALLY hate being treated like a Mac user, and not shown what's happening during an install. I hope this isn't where we are going with Vista, 'cos that's not where I 'want to go today'.

andokai

I've noticed that the Onfolio plugin doesn't work with it, at least on XP x64 and IE can't import the OPML feed list exported by Onfolio.

Sad

Over to connect I go.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

mawcc wrote:
MSDN2 still doesn't work (e.g. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bahh2fef.aspx), so I doubt that developers who rely on this documentation are willing to make the switch.

However the installable MSDN library finally works correctly. Woohoo.

Stephen

Firefox	Internet Explorer 7

It doesn't matter what screen width the browser is it only displays the live.com pages on a single row.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

Hey Bruce,
I noticed that the IE page shows a certain well-known site on the 'RSS Feeds' tab screenshot.

It good that you know who your friends are ... Smiley

Herbie

Winston Pang

You know only did i recently start trying out IE7.

But for the back and forward buttons, somtimes i notice that when i go to a page on a link the back button doesn't enable anymore.

Also, the drop down for the back and forward buttons, so does the drop down only correspond to the back page historys or what?

Manip

Fixed in this beta (I hope).

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Winston Pang wrote:

Also, the drop down for the back and forward buttons, so does the drop down only correspond to the back page historys or what?

Both

Rowan
Look, no errors.

I've submitted a number of bugs to Connect, however the response I got for #61102 is a worry.

John H wrote:

Thanks for reporting this issue. We won't be able to address this in IE7.0 due to our layout behavior freeze (please see the IEBLOG http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/23/559409.aspx for more info on this). We will consider this for the next IE release.

-- John H.

The bug I reported was specifically related to CSS and HTML rendering issues, that's why you were in "Layout behaviour freeze", to fix these type of bugs.

What makes John think that "layout behaviour freeze" mean that CSS bugs can't be fixed?

Btw, thanks for delivering on time.

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

Looks like I may have to boot into XP today to install this! Also, what is the actualy build of Beta 2?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Hold up, there's WinFX settings in the secuity zone setup.

That's new.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

It installs and works fine on XP x64.

It worries me that my two current pet bugs aren't fixed yet (well, one of them worries me, the other I didn't report until this weekend so it's not strange it hasn't been fixed).

The first one (which is the one I reported nearly two months ago) is the "IE7 displays an unneeded horizontal scrollbar when the page contains right-floated italic text" (example, Connect feedback page). This one has existed since the first IE7 Beta2 Preview for XPSP2, and has been in every build for XP or Vista since.

The second one is "An element with position:absolute inside an element with position:relative inside an element with a left padding subtracts the padding from the absolute offset" (example, Connect feedback page). This one was in the previous IE7 Beta2 Preview, but it wasn't in Vista 5342. It did however show up in Vista 5365 which is when I bugged it.

Both of these bugs happen in strict mode, are not due to IE6 workarounds but actual bugs in IE7, and have been seen on actual pages "in the wild" which would need to be modified if they aren't fixed. The last thing us web developers need is another set of workarounds that apply to IE7 but not to IE6.

If you are in the Vista beta and can access the Connect bugs, please validate and vote. Smiley

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

blowdart wrote:
Winston Pang wrote:

Also, the drop down for the back and forward buttons, so does the drop down only correspond to the back page historys or what?

Both

Why does the drop-down use the Vista style of drop-down? Why doesn't it use the native drop-down widget?

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

Woot! Downloading now!