A report released today by Smartware tested each browser against an array of independently submitted phishing sites. Firefox did almost a 100% better then IE7 did. I suppose we should not be surprised but honestly I expected better results. [Washington Post]
For some reason last Saturday when a buddy of mine said to me hey you know that IE7 has RSS Auto Discovery correct? Well it made me think, had I added the code necessary for Auto Discovery before? I immediately loaded one of my templates, and saw I had the auto discovery code already installed. Which was a good thing!
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Well the Party is over at Microsoft and now the team that has worked hard to launch IE7 Yesterday has to start working on securing the browser to vulnerabilities.
All I can say is that it is about time. For all of you that have stuck with IE through security risk, and outdated technology you can finally upgrade. The upgrade will allow you to have some of the features that Firefox users have been using for a couple of years.
The author of the Read /Write Weblog says that 2007 will be a big year for RSS. Personally I am not as optimistic, but I have been wrong before. His reckoning is that because IE7 will have RSS integrated the masses not using RSS to get content will essentially see the light and join the party.
Over the past year we have had to deal with major issues on website designs to make sure that the sites would view correctly in IE6 what we are finding now however is that hacks we put in for both IE6 and Safari are now breaking when viewed in IE7. The problem a lot of web developers are going to