Microsoft have released the latest IE7 Beta 2 Preview, heres my first impressions and thoughts as a developer:
More soon…. when I manage to uninstall the first version. I have to save this now as im worried the PC is going to crash..
A complete waste of time - uninstalling IE7 just killed any use of IE Explorer 6. Typing an address in the IE nav bar just says “Unable to load object”. Crap.
1 comment April 25th, 2006
The new Office 2007 is nice. The previous pre-release was lacking but the new version, well, i take my hat off to Microsoft. It’s visually attractive, well rendered and whilst it might be a bit slow in areas its a nice piece of software.
The menuing system has been improved a hundred fold and things seem to flow very nicely. Visually it’s impressive. I feel like im using an improved (albiet similar) version of Office 2003. It would of been great to have a slim line version for computers which arn’t up to the challenge but overall its good.
Add comment April 22nd, 2006
The BBC is reporting that a large number of “security holes” in Firefox have been fixed and are now available in a new update.
This alone isn’t really any news or of much interest however the comment “Programs like Firefox have been thought to be more secure than other browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer” whilst true is also misleading.
The truth is that Microsoft is famous for releasing critical updates that appear to fix a problem but quietly solve numerous other issues in different areas. That Firefox has an open approach to listing ALL security problems is of benefit to us all. Hiding security issue fix after fix in a single unlabelled security update from MS means its impossible to actually compare the number of actual security issues that exist in MSIE.
I’m also interested in thier statement that some 80% of browsers are still MSIE. Whilst I believe that this is the case for the BBC site one wonders if this is actually a complete NET trend. Surely browser statistics are meaningless unless related to the type of meterial they were measured against. One would expect that a higher percentage of people who utilise The Register (for instance) would actually be using Firefox given the nature of the content. Sweeping general statements arn’t great and “if” 80% of the BBC’s users utilise IE then make it clear.
In other completely unrelated news:
1 comment April 20th, 2006
As a little project I’ve setup a pretty comprehensive feed set of weather data available in XML format for both 24 hour and five day forecasts (note that some 24 hour forecasts are not available).
The feeds are now live and working well so if you are after some sort of XML feed for weather then give them a try. I am still messing with the idea of creating additional slim line RSS feeds for the weather but fitting the information is potentially difficult.
More info at the weather part of my site
Two last points, I’ve also implemented the top 40 chart (uk) to XML and im also providing RSS feeds for ARIA.co.uk’s product list (which is ace).
Add comment April 13th, 2006
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