What to Expect from IE at MIX07?
MIX07 is coming up in a week and a half and I wanted to provide an overview of the IE activities at the show. As most of you know, MIX is Microsoft’s conference for Web designers, developers and decision-makers who live and work on the consumer Web.
Last year at MIX06, Microsoft placed a lot of emphasis on Internet Explorer 7, showing off improvements in the rendering engine, the new RSS platform, and the new security features like Protected Mode and ActiveX opt-in. Internet Explorer 7 has now been in the market for approximately 6 months, doing great, and we’re hard at work on the next release. This year, the focus of MIX07 is Silverlight, and creating rich interactive applications and media experiences for your customers.
We’ve gathered input from customers for the next version of IE through formal research like user studies and surveys, and also at conferences, comments on the IE blog, and direct emails from you; we will continue to listen at MIX07. We will have more information to share about the next release in the future, but MIX07 is too early yet to discuss specifics. So what can you expect to hear from us at MIX this year? We’ve got 4 sessions specifically about Internet Explorer, including a presentation by one of our partners, Molly Holzschlag. Walter VonKoch, Molly and Cyra Richardson will focus on creating better experiences in Internet Explorer, by using RSS, CSS and creating fast AJAX applications. I will do a retrospective of IE7 and talk about lessons learned that we carry forward as we work on the next version. Specifically, the sessions are:
Making Money With RSS with Walter VonKoch
RSS is a great mechanism for connecting with your customers. Walter will show some great examples of how you can do that, and how you can extend the RSS platform to provide a richer data source for your customers.
Thinking In CSS: How To Build Great Looking Websites with Molly Holzschlag
We’re super excited to have Molly working with us at Microsoft, and just as excited that she’s out in the real world evangelizing CSS and standards-based web development.
How To Make AJAX Applications Scream On The Client with Cyra Richardson
What are the top 3 things that cause AJAX performance problems? Cyra has spent some time delving into this problem and has some suggestions that will help to increase the speed of your AJAX application. A great looking UI can be killed by poor performance, and Cyra will show us some common mistakes and easy ways to speed up your application.
IE7: Past, Present and Future with Chris Wilson
I’ve been on the IE team since IE 2.0, so I know a bit about the ins and outs of Internet Explorer. In this session I’ll be talking about the road from IE6 to IE7 – the vision of the release, how we set priorities, and more importantly, how we deal with the challenge of serving 500 million users. There were many lessons learned, and I’ll talk about how we’ll take those lessons forward into future releases of Internet Explorer.
Hope to see you there!
Chris Wilson
Comments
Anonymous
April 19, 2007
PingBack from http://www.ie7security.net/2007/04/19/what-to-expect-from-ie-at-mix07/Anonymous
April 19, 2007
So no IE8 yet? pfffft. IE7 was a good step but was more like a bugfix for 5 years worth of problems. Microsoft already proved that they can release quality products when theres competition, so I'm eagerly waiting the new version. Will there be online transcripts for these conferences? Sadly I won't be there on the show, but I'd like to read the part about the IE history. It sounds intriguing.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
Im glad to see that your working with some people to improve on standards, but still why are you so slow at improving your software? you get umptine amount of money to do it yet your so slow at it? Firefox released more than 3 versions in the time between IE6 and IE7 and it still has more updates and better CSS support. What is going on!!!?!Anonymous
April 19, 2007
thank you very much very very nıce...Anonymous
April 19, 2007
> Will there be online transcripts for these conferences? I second Arieta on this. Would be nice to get the transcripts or videos of Mix07.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
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April 19, 2007
"So no IE8 yet? pfffft. IE7 was a good step but was more like a bugfix for 5 years worth of problems." What's with the trolling?Anonymous
April 19, 2007
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April 19, 2007
"Microsoft has promissed IE with 18 months of IE7 but I just don't see it happening. More like 24 months, if that. :(" Um... They released IE7 roughly six months ago...Anonymous
April 19, 2007
What I like to know is what you have planned for Vista SP1! Most of the major and most awaited updates will be expected. To have an updated version of IE7 shipped with SP1 would good time to make sure everyone incorporates the new build quickly. I'd also like to know what your road plan is up until your next major release.Anonymous
April 20, 2007
"Im glad to see that your working with some people to improve on standards, but still why are you so slow at improving your software? you get umptine amount of money to do it yet your so slow at it? Firefox released more than 3 versions in the time between IE6 and IE7 and it still has more updates and better CSS support." IE6 in SP2 added several minor features (popup blocker), if they were like Mozilla, they would've called it IE7. But instead, they realized they're minor updates, so it didn't warrant a new version. Just because you call several minor features a new version, doesn't mean it should be one. FF2 was more like 1.6, and 3.0 (from the looks of it) will be more like 1.8 or 1.9. If you really think though that the IE team gets all the money it needs, then you have 0 realization of how a business works. And at least IE has a better interface, and no huge memory leaks. I can run IE for days. Contrary to having to restart FF every day if I wanted it to be responsive.Anonymous
April 20, 2007
Will the new public bug tracking database be announced at Mix 07?Anonymous
April 20, 2007
IE7 have problems related to downloading. When you download a file it can sometimes say it's finished before it actually is, leaving you with an incomplete file. The least you could do is to display an error message instead of saying the file is complete, when it in fact, isn't complete. (it doesn't happen that often, but it's still really annoying)Anonymous
April 20, 2007
IE has a better interface? - survey says... WRONG! IE has no huge memory leaks? - survey says... WRONG! Firefox needs restarting every day? - survey says... WRONG! Credit to the IE team for releasing IE7, and getting it that much farther along the path to a modern web browser, but it has a long way to go. ...and Firefox 1.5, 2.0 might seem like big jumps to you, but lets keep in mind that Firefox 1.0 is equal to IE 9.0.Anonymous
April 20, 2007
In a recent post, Internet Explorer Program Manager Chris Wilson talks about his team's presence at theAnonymous
April 20, 2007
"Firefox needs restarting every day? - survey says... WRONG!" No, survey says completely correct here. Open Firefox window/tabs gobbles away my memory daily, regardless of page open. I'm not saying IE is great, they have their own memory issues, but Firefox is far from perfect.Anonymous
April 20, 2007
>"Firefox needs restarting every day? - survey >says... WRONG!" >No, survey says completely correct here. Open >Firefox window/tabs gobbles away my memory daily, >regardless of page open. I'm not saying IE is >great, they have their own memory issues, but >Firefox is far from perfect. Agreed. I've recently reinstalled XP, have Firefox open now with 7 tabs, and its gobbling the memory. .. with some very strange (and frustrating side effects: unresponsive window, unable to get context menus up, etc) It seems to have gotten worse since version 2.0 was released.Anonymous
April 21, 2007
IE7 is only a slight improvement on IE6. Considering the monetary power of microsoft, i'm sure if they actually put their minds to it they could develop a good browser, at the moment, i'd rather use FF than IE7 any day of the week. And one more thing, whats with IE and always wanting to make 'clicking' noises ? this is so unnessesary.Anonymous
April 21, 2007
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April 22, 2007
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April 22, 2007
Form elements need some serious style related attention. Visit my current test case at http://www.jabcreations.net/ without the mouse being over the page area when loading, move the mouse over the page after it has loaded, then give focus on the search text input. Why are the elements bouncing around? Why is the search submit button changing size when the search text field gains focus or is blurred? All browsers have issues correctly styling form fields so it's not just IE however only IE has odd movement issues. Plus it takes not only strange margins but also relative positioning to get the login fields to be correctly positioned. Besides XHTML support I'd personally like to see IE8 support opacity and multiple background support. This would really allow the web to move away from table based layouts for highly graphical designs. Rounded corner support would also allow pages to look a lot better while rendered in IE. I don't really care about seeing support for 700 different combinations of selectors but (what was it called again?) the CSS3 selector that selects every other instance of an element would also be a dramatic step in helping webmasters. The majority (though not all) of rendering errors I've encountered have been fixed in IE7. It would also be nice to individually drag and drop GUI items and not just on their native toolbars either while the toolbars are unlocked.Anonymous
April 22, 2007
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April 23, 2007
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April 23, 2007
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April 23, 2007
The most browser conforms to standards, the less popular it is. For example, the first browser to pass Acid2 was Konqueror, the second is Opera. How popular are these? Firefox is approaching Acid2, but has not passed yet. And it is much more popular than Konqueror and Opera. And, finally, the most popular browser is IE, and it conforms to standards worse of all.Anonymous
April 23, 2007
well if you want more then one ie try this http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE its works but note this is not supported by Microsoft and could possibly cause problemsAnonymous
April 23, 2007
Why am I getting: I’ll instead of I'll on the blog and several other locations?Anonymous
April 23, 2007
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April 23, 2007
From the IE Blog (follow the link for details). Making Money With RSS with Walter VonKoch Thinking InAnonymous
April 24, 2007
"Im glad to see that your working with some people to improve on standards, but still why are you so slow at improving your software? you get umptine amount of money to do it yet your so slow at it? Firefox released more than 3 versions in the time between IE6 and IE7 and it still has more updates and better CSS support." IE6 in SP2 added several minor features (popup blocker), if they were like Mozilla, they would've called it IE7. But instead, they realized they're minor updates, so it didn't warrant a new version. Just because you call several minor features a new version, doesn't mean it should be one. FF2 was more like 1.6, and 3.0 (from the looks of it) will be more like 1.8 or 1.9. If you really think though that the IE team gets all the money it needs, then you have 0 realization of how a business works. And at least IE has a better interface, and no huge memory leaks. I can run IE for days. Contrary to having to restart FF every day if I wanted it to be responsive. please visit our site http://www.prowebdeveloper.com http://www.prowebdeveloper.net http://www.webdesignco.irAnonymous
April 24, 2007
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April 27, 2007
Im glad to see that your working with some people to improve on standards, but still why are you so slow at improving your software? you get umptine amount of money to do it yet your so slow at it? Firefox released more than 3 versions in the time between IE6 and IE7 and it still has more updates and better CSS support. What is going on!!!?!Anonymous
April 27, 2007
Im glad to see that your working with some people to improve on standards, but still why are you so slow at improving your software? you get umptine amount of money to do it yet your so slow at it? Firefox released more than 3 versions in the time between IE6 and IE7 and it still has more updates and better CSS support. What is going on!!!?! please visit our site http://www.prowebdeveloper.comAnonymous
April 29, 2007
As noted on this blog sometime in 2005, changing the opacity on an element with a PNG (with alpha transparency) background breaks the transparency. I was hoping that bug fixes would be released more often than back in the days of IE6, have there been any at all (Standards related, that is)? Well, I hope things will improve soon, but I've been doing that for 6 years or so.Anonymous
May 01, 2007
The 72-hour conversation that Microsoft likes to call Mix is over tomorrow, and so far, there has been...Anonymous
May 02, 2007
> " and no huge memory leaks. I can run IE for >days. Contrary to having to restart FF every day >if I wanted it to be responsive. " Its funny you mention the memory leaks. Did you know that FireFox only has the memory leaks when running in MS Windows? Ever run firefox in linux? no memory leaks there... IE has its own share of memory leaks as well. At least when you install Firefox on a Win2003 server it doesn't crash the server, where as IE7 seems to do this about 10% of the time. As to IE8, even if they say 18months from when IE7 was released, I still say we wont see it in an official release form within the next 1.5yrs. Look at how long it took them to release IE7, look at how long it took for Vista, look at how long it took for Office07 ....Anonymous
May 02, 2007
Yes, I second the request for a transcript, especially the one about the history of IE. I usually enjoy stories about IT history, so please keep us informed, or maybe adapt your talk and post it here on the blog.Anonymous
May 02, 2007
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May 03, 2007
Several sources report that Microsoft will add microformats support to the next version of their internet browser, IE8. The corresponding IEBlog entry doesn’t mention microformats, though, so this news still needs confirmation. Anyway, it wouldAnonymous
May 03, 2007
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