{"id":43,"date":"2006-02-01T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-02-01T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T08:03:00","slug":"new-web-browsers-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/new-web-browsers-released\/","title":{"rendered":"New Web BrowserS released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the last few days, Mozilla officially released version 1.0 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/seamonkey\/\">SeaMonkey<\/a> and Microsoft released a public preview of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtechnews.com\/posts\/2605\">Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 Preview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SeaMonkey is essentially an updated version of the old Mozilla Suite with a number of bugfixes and updates, including version 1.8 of the Gecko rendering engine (adding in better <acronym title=\"Cascading Style Sheets\">CSS<\/acronym> support, and basic, native support for <acronym title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/acronym>). I cannot find any documentation confirming whether or not there are any differences between SeaMonkey&#8217;s Composure and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvu.com\/\">Nvu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me first start off by saying what the heck is a preview version of beta level software? Is that a beta version of a beta version? Why not wait until you&#8217;re done with what you want included in the beta before releasing it to the public? Are you aiming for a low number of beta releases, but don&#8217;t mind how many &#8220;preview&#8221; editions you put out?<\/p>\n<p><acronym title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/acronym> 7 beta 2 preview&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/ie\/releasenotes\/\">release notes<\/a> are horrible &mdash; only documenting changes from beta 1. Why can&#8217;t I find a list of things that are different from version 6? Would that be so hard to ask? I know that they have finally caught up with every other modern Web browser and finally added tabbed browsing (even if their version looks ugly), added <acronym title=\"Really Simple Syndication\">RSS<\/acronym> features, fixed their <acronym title=\"Portable Network Graphics\">PNG<\/acronym> support, and got rid of a lot of <acronym title=\"Cascading Style Sheets\">CSS<\/acronym> bugs, but what bugs were fixed? From the release notes, they mentioned that they have dropped support for telnet (<acronym title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/acronym> had telnet in it? what the heck), fixed the BASE element, radically reworked the SELECT element to no longer use the native Windows <acronym title=\"Application Programming Interface\">API<\/acronym>, dropped support for <acronym title=\"Secure Socket Layer\">SSL<\/acronym> version 2 for version 3, disabled ActiveX, and disabled support for changing the Status bar text. All good changes in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at people&#8217;s feadback, there seems to be two main concerns. The first being users running legal versions of Windows are finding problems with Windows Genuine Advantage. Also, installing the beta release will overwrite <acronym title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/acronym> 6. The <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=1885657\">Fark thread<\/a> this release contains a workaround for this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the damn thing. <strong>DO NOT RUN IT<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Rename the file extension from .exe to .rar and use an unarchiving utility like 7zip to extract it to a folder.<\/li>\n<li>Find shlwapi.dll in that folder. Delete it.<\/li>\n<li>Create a new textfile in that folder. Rename it to IEXPLORE.exe.local and click Yes to accept the changes.<\/li>\n<li>Double-click the iexplore.exe in that folder.<\/li>\n<li>Be remarkably underwhelmed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>While on the topic of Web browsers, I&#8217;d like to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moezilla\">Moezilla<\/a> scares the heck out of me. Software should not have an anime-girl counterpart &hellip;. I&#8217;m sure my friend Loun-Loun loves it though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the last few days, Mozilla officially released version 1.0 of SeaMonkey and Microsoft released a public preview of Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 Preview. 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