Internet Explorer 7: The Browser. The Team. The Tour. Part 1

Posted By: Charles | Oct 18th, 2006 @ 4:19 PM | 70,675 Views | 31 Comments
We recently went over to building 2 to meet some of the folks responsible for IE7. Senior Program Manager and seasoned Niner Dave Massy introduces us to what's new in IE7 (and outlines all the plans for IE8 - just kidding) before taking the new Channel 9 camera (which is tapeless) and Charles on a random walk of the hallways (emphasis on random) where we run into Pete LePage, Product Manager for developers who tags along as we meet various IE People who discuss their work on IE7.

In part one of this tour, you will meet:

Tony Schreiner, Developer on User Experience. Li-Hsin Huang, Lead Developer on User Experience. Roland Tokumi, Lead Developer on Platform. Justin Rogers, Developer on Object Model and CSS parsing. Marc Silbey, Program Manager on Protected Mode. Robert Gu, Lead Developer on Protected Mode. Travis Leithead, Program Manager on Object Model. Vidya Nallathimmayyagari, Test Lead on protected mode. Eric Olson, test Lead on compatibility. Peter Gurevich, Program Manager for display and performance. Cyra Richardson, Lead Program Manager for layout. Harley Rosnow, Developer Architect. John Berry, Development Manager. Shawn Woods, Architect. Niner Bruce Morgan, Development Manager and Iron Man responsible for User experience and RSS. Saloni Rai, Program Manager. Doug Stamper, Group Program Manager for the Project Release (and old colleague of Charles' back in his Windows Update days...).

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#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 5:47 PM
Cyonix
Cyonix
Me
Great video, i really enjoyed the tour
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:00 PM
daSmirnov
daSmirnov
I love tours like this, so when's part two!?
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:02 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
daSmirnov wrote:


I love tours like this, so when's part two!?



Tomorrow.
C
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:22 PM
DevilsRejection
DevilsRejection
addicted to rss
so you're going to start competing with firefox? i mean they want version 3.0 out in early 2007!
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:30 PM
Jason Cox
Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker
Great video, I loved the roaming of the halls and just meeting random people.

And I dont supose I could get my hands on some of those IE7 posters and stickers...
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:34 PM
Rowan
Rowan
Look, no errors.
Good video.
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:55 PM
SecretSoftware
SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.

Good Video.

One question to the team. Why is switching between tabs in IE7 slower than in FireFox? i mean Switching between one tab to another  should be very super fast. But in RC3 its slow. Can you explain?

#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 6:59 PM
Jason Cox
Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker
SecretSoftware wrote:


Good Video.

One question to the team. Why is switching between tabs in IE7 slower than in FireFox? i mean Switching between one tab to another  should be very super fast. But in RC3 its slow. Can you explain?

SecretSoftware, I may not be on the IE team, but for me switching between tabs is instantaneous.
#Oct 18th, 2006 @ 7:56 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Did I hear that right? You guys took 5 yrs off to work on .Net as the next connected platform?

how long was your crunch time? (the 6-7 day/wk mentioned)
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