Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Lester Caine

Jochem Maas wrote:

Colin Guthrie schreef:

Lester Caine wrote:
Jochem - You not had the problem of M$ changing default font sizes in 
different versions of windows? IT departments have enough problems 
with INSTALLING an upgrade without asking them to CHANGE the font 
size as well :)
The complaint from THIS site was that they could not log out because 
the 'logout' button was hidden - selecting a size smaller font on the 
browser fixes the problem, but we have to add a scroll bar to the 
menu because "They can't change from the default settings" :(


Yeah font sizes are a pain... tip of the day: Don't put and XML 
preamble in if you are using XHTML and get your doctypes right. Once 
you do that, the font size problems are a lot easier to address.


indeed they are a pain, properly validating strict xHTML is the start of
making it manageable, other part is defining suitable style sheets that fix
the problem. plenty of eggheads offer blogs posts/articles etc that define
the issues and offer cross-browser font-size solutions.

IE font-size hell is exactly that, but there is no reason to have to 
pass it

on to the client ... going through M$Hell is our job ;-)


My NEW stuff addresses the problem, AND I provide free upgrades as part of the 
maintenance, BUT it can take several YEARS to get permission to apply those 
upgrades ;)


Actually this is good example of where it can be difficult to update things. I 
have still to get permission to switch some sites from PHP5.0.6 even though we 
KNOW that 5.2.6 provides speed improvements! The system is working fine for 
them and they do not want to break it - and yet they insist on running Windows 
Update in the background WHICH DOES JUST THAT - Go figure :(


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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Jochem Maas

Colin Guthrie schreef:

Lester Caine wrote:
Jochem - You not had the problem of M$ changing default font sizes in 
different versions of windows? IT departments have enough problems 
with INSTALLING an upgrade without asking them to CHANGE the font size 
as well :)
The complaint from THIS site was that they could not log out because 
the 'logout' button was hidden - selecting a size smaller font on the 
browser fixes the problem, but we have to add a scroll bar to the menu 
because "They can't change from the default settings" :(


Yeah font sizes are a pain... tip of the day: Don't put and XML preamble 
in if you are using XHTML and get your doctypes right. Once you do that, 
the font size problems are a lot easier to address.


indeed they are a pain, properly validating strict xHTML is the start of
making it manageable, other part is defining suitable style sheets that fix
the problem. plenty of eggheads offer blogs posts/articles etc that define
the issues and offer cross-browser font-size solutions.

IE font-size hell is exactly that, but there is no reason to have to pass it
on to the client ... going through M$Hell is our job ;-)



Col






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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Colin Guthrie

Lester Caine wrote:
Jochem - You not had the problem of M$ changing default font sizes in 
different versions of windows? IT departments have enough problems with 
INSTALLING an upgrade without asking them to CHANGE the font size as 
well :)
The complaint from THIS site was that they could not log out because the 
'logout' button was hidden - selecting a size smaller font on the 
browser fixes the problem, but we have to add a scroll bar to the menu 
because "They can't change from the default settings" :(


Yeah font sizes are a pain... tip of the day: Don't put and XML preamble 
in if you are using XHTML and get your doctypes right. Once you do that, 
the font size problems are a lot easier to address.


Col



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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Lester Caine

Colin Guthrie wrote:

Micah Gersten wrote:

In the Microsoft world, you only support the latest couple of OSs, so
IE7 won't run on Win2k.


What about FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari? Do *any* of those work? If not, 
then it wouldn't take long to get one of them working if IE had a sunset 
date in it. Then you'd see how quickly MS responded with making IEx work 
on their older OSes (and simply recompiling IE6 with a newer sunset 
date should not be allowed!) I'm not sure how you would police it, but 
there should be a badge of honour associated with the system in some 
way, probably overseen by W3C.


The problem here is the sales job M$ does on the councils when providing their 
site licences. CERTAINLY when ever I demo new facilities I don't use IE - in 
fact I have even STRIPPED IE from most machines here, but have a couple of 
machines that don't matter if IE leaks ;) IE7 does not run on W2k so M$ want 
money to upgrade to - Vista nowadays - so it's not going to happen any time soon.


It would be nice if we could convince IT departments that there ARE other 
sources of software than M$, and I *AM* now slipping Linux servers into sites 
where only Windows machines were acceptable a couple of years ago. I suspect 
that with the current Linux distributions supplying OpenOffice and Firefox out 
of the box, then a few more IT departments will be moving that way very soon... :)


Jochem - You not had the problem of M$ changing default font sizes in 
different versions of windows? IT departments have enough problems with 
INSTALLING an upgrade without asking them to CHANGE the font size as well :)
The complaint from THIS site was that they could not log out because the 
'logout' button was hidden - selecting a size smaller font on the browser 
fixes the problem, but we have to add a scroll bar to the menu because "They 
can't change from the default settings" :(


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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Ross McKay
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:22:30 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:

>[...] I'm not sure how you would police it, but 
>there should be a badge of honour associated with the system in some 
>way, probably overseen by W3C.

Like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Colin Guthrie

Micah Gersten wrote:

In the Microsoft world, you only support the latest couple of OSs, so
IE7 won't run on Win2k.


What about FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari? Do *any* of those work? If not, 
then it wouldn't take long to get one of them working if IE had a sunset 
date in it. Then you'd see how quickly MS responded with making IEx work 
on their older OSes (and simply recompiling IE6 with a newer sunset 
date should not be allowed!) I'm not sure how you would police it, but 
there should be a badge of honour associated with the system in some 
way, probably overseen by W3C.


Col

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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Micah Gersten
In the Microsoft world, you only support the latest couple of OSs, so
IE7 won't run on Win2k.

ank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com



Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Why do they need to upgrade the whole OS just to upgrade a browser
> who's sunset date has been reached?
>
> There are enough open source browsers out there that you can get a
> modern, standards compliant browser on older hardware without any
> problem.
>
> If this date was built in from the start and was well known, there
> wouldn't be any problem. It's just trying to retrofit now that people
> start to think that it's a problem (and due to the general reluctance
> to keep prop. web apps up-to-date with modern browsers, this is
> partially correct, but like I say, if this was all known up front,
> these issues would all have been dealt with!)
>
> Col
>
>

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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Jason Pruim


On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:


Lester Caine wrote:
MOST of my council customers only have IE6 on their networks  
although I was asked the question 'Does it run on IE7' only  
recently. To which the answer is 'Yes - but all the font sizes are  
too big!' Since the cost of replacing several thousand computers at  
each council to ones that could RUN XP is excessive and the current  
systems work fine then why should they upgrade? The cost will come  
out of OUR pockets at some point :(



Why do they need to upgrade the whole OS just to upgrade a browser  
who's sunset date has been reached?


There are enough open source browsers out there that you can get a  
modern, standards compliant browser on older hardware without any  
problem.


If this date was built in from the start and was well known, there  
wouldn't be any problem. It's just trying to retrofit now that  
people start to think that it's a problem (and due to the general  
reluctance to keep prop. web apps up-to-date with modern browsers,  
this is partially correct, but like I say, if this was all known up  
front, these issues would all have been dealt with!)


It also would have taken care of the people who wrote the webapps that  
were specific to certain software.  I know large companies on their  
intranets have systems that only work with IE 6 which they spent a ton  
of money developing...


It sucks but it's the truth... I say make sure you write to open web  
standards and the entire internet will be better off :)



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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Colin Guthrie

Lester Caine wrote:
MOST of my council customers only have IE6 on their networks although I 
was asked the question 'Does it run on IE7' only recently. To which the 
answer is 'Yes - but all the font sizes are too big!' Since the cost of 
replacing several thousand computers at each council to ones that could 
RUN XP is excessive and the current systems work fine then why should 
they upgrade? The cost will come out of OUR pockets at some point :(



Why do they need to upgrade the whole OS just to upgrade a browser who's 
sunset date has been reached?


There are enough open source browsers out there that you can get a 
modern, standards compliant browser on older hardware without any problem.


If this date was built in from the start and was well known, there 
wouldn't be any problem. It's just trying to retrofit now that people 
start to think that it's a problem (and due to the general reluctance to 
keep prop. web apps up-to-date with modern browsers, this is partially 
correct, but like I say, if this was all known up front, these issues 
would all have been dealt with!)


Col


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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Jochem Maas

Lester Caine schreef:

Luke wrote:
yeah, make an official no-support date. That would be great- it would 
help

with the whole IE6 problem.

It needs to be phased out, yet I know many companies that still haven't
upgraded to IE7 yet!

That's a big security problem as well as being a headache for all of 
us...


MOST of my council customers only have IE6 on their networks although I 
was asked the question 'Does it run on IE7' only recently. To which the 
answer is 'Yes - but all the font sizes are too big!'


wtf?

Since the cost of 
replacing several thousand computers at each council to ones that could 
RUN XP is excessive and the current systems work fine then why should 
they upgrade? The cost will come out of OUR pockets at some point :(





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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Lester Caine

Luke wrote:

yeah, make an official no-support date. That would be great- it would help
with the whole IE6 problem.

It needs to be phased out, yet I know many companies that still haven't
upgraded to IE7 yet!

That's a big security problem as well as being a headache for all of us...


MOST of my council customers only have IE6 on their networks although I was 
asked the question 'Does it run on IE7' only recently. To which the answer is 
'Yes - but all the font sizes are too big!' Since the cost of replacing 
several thousand computers at each council to ones that could RUN XP is 
excessive and the current systems work fine then why should they upgrade? The 
cost will come out of OUR pockets at some point :(


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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Ross McKay
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:25:11 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:

>[...]
>It should be respected that browsers go out of date and beyond that time 
>*noone* supports them, not their authors or the web developing public.

The worst thing about Vista is that not enough Win2K and WinXP (IE6)
users want to upgrade to it (and who can blame them?) The best thing
about Google Chrome is that maybe, just maybe, the tide will turn
against Microsoft Word as the tech-unsavvy move to this "cloud
computing" buzzword-paradise (onto Linux-based cheap PCs with no IE6!)

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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Luke
yeah, make an official no-support date. That would be great- it would help
with the whole IE6 problem.

It needs to be phased out, yet I know many companies that still haven't
upgraded to IE7 yet!

That's a big security problem as well as being a headache for all of us...

2008/9/11 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Ross McKay wrote:
>
>> Michael McGlothlin wrote:
>>
>> [...] I think web developers should look into a class action case against
>>> Microsoft for failing to make their browser standards compliant - it sure
>>> costs us a lot extra in development time. :p
>>>
>>
>> Let me know where the PayPal donate button is... DW & I are fed up with
>> having to find nasty kludges for IE6 every time we build a website!
>>
>
> I think by the changing shape of the web, all browsers should have a sunset
> date in there beyond which they do not operate (either that or open a nag
> screen on every page load that is impossible to turn off (other than with a
> low level hack/patch to the binary - or obviously just a comment/recompile
> in open source ones!)).
>
> It should be respected that browsers go out of date and beyond that time
> *noone* supports them, not their authors or the web developing public.
>
> Col
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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-11 Thread Colin Guthrie

Ross McKay wrote:

Michael McGlothlin wrote:

[...] I think web developers 
should look into a class action case against Microsoft for failing to 
make their browser standards compliant - it sure costs us a lot extra in 
development time. :p


Let me know where the PayPal donate button is... DW & I are fed up with
having to find nasty kludges for IE6 every time we build a website!


I think by the changing shape of the web, all browsers should have a 
sunset date in there beyond which they do not operate (either that or 
open a nag screen on every page load that is impossible to turn off 
(other than with a low level hack/patch to the binary - or obviously 
just a comment/recompile in open source ones!)).


It should be respected that browsers go out of date and beyond that time 
*noone* supports them, not their authors or the web developing public.


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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-10 Thread Ross McKay
Michael McGlothlin wrote:

>[...] I think web developers 
>should look into a class action case against Microsoft for failing to 
>make their browser standards compliant - it sure costs us a lot extra in 
>development time. :p

Let me know where the PayPal donate button is... DW & I are fed up with
having to find nasty kludges for IE6 every time we build a website!
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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-10 Thread Michael McGlothlin
I run VMWare Fusion on my iMac. I run Windows 2000 w/ IE6 and XP w/ IE7 
in their own virtual machines. I haven't bothered with IE8 yet but will 
probably try it in another copy of my XP virtual machine.


I'm sure as hell not going to pay Microsoft any more in licensing fees 
to make stuff work in their crappy browsers. I think web developers 
should look into a class action case against Microsoft for failing to 
make their browser standards compliant - it sure costs us a lot extra in 
development time. :p

how do you handle licensing/activation in these VMs?
I have parallels on my Mac and a 'proper' bootcamp install of WinXP
which I need for work ... and I'm not about to screw with that install
for the sake of testing another POS version of IE. 



You need a license for each instance of XP that you run. AFAIK, you only
need one license to multi-boot XP on a single computer (but you should
check that!) so I don't see why it would be any different for multiple
images run singly in a VM.

NB: I'm talking XP here; I vaguely recall something about the Vista EULA
(spit!) specifically excluding installation in a non-MS VM, so you'd
need to check with your lawyers on that one... :/

However, I'm using my MSDN Universal (or whatever it's now called) copy
of XP. I built an image once, backed it up, and it became my IE6 test
image. I copied it a couple of times for an IE7 image, an IE8 image (as
yet unused!), a Chrome image, and a .NET environment for running a
couple of Windows tools and testing legacy .ASP websites I have to
maintain from time to time.

It all runs very nicely in KVM, and lets me test in IE without shutting
down Linux :)

  

but I'd love to
be able to have a prinstine winXP image laying about that I
can repeatedly screw up in the name of compatibility and
cross-browser testing.



Certainly QEMU / KVM, and I'm pretty sure the others too, allow you to
run in snapshot mode whereby "hard drive writes" are held in temporary
files and only written back to the image if / when you tell the VM to
commit. Thus, you don't even need to refresh the image if you just test
in snapshot all the time. (and work with network data files, or version
control workspaces)




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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-09 Thread Colin Guthrie

Ross McKay wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:


how do you handle licensing/activation in these VMs?
I have parallels on my Mac and a 'proper' bootcamp install of WinXP
which I need for work ... and I'm not about to screw with that install
for the sake of testing another POS version of IE. 


You need a license for each instance of XP that you run. AFAIK, you only
need one license to multi-boot XP on a single computer (but you should
check that!) so I don't see why it would be any different for multiple
images run singly in a VM.


I somehow doubt it, but that would be nice. I certainly wouldn't have 
any moral qualms about it, but not sure if MS lawyers would see it lat 
way. That said, if you use a VM system that support snapshots, then you 
can have a faily convenient sacrificial install that you can play with 
this kind of thing. That said, it's still not useful. [Edit: I see you 
wrote pretty much the same thing at the end of your mail ;)]



NB: I'm talking XP here; I vaguely recall something about the Vista EULA
(spit!) specifically excluding installation in a non-MS VM, so you'd
need to check with your lawyers on that one... :/


I think I remember reading that they relaxed their VM licensing 
stance... Having never installed Vista and having no intention of 
touching it with a 10ft barge pole, I can't say I care!



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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Ross McKay
Jochem Maas wrote:

>how do you handle licensing/activation in these VMs?
>I have parallels on my Mac and a 'proper' bootcamp install of WinXP
>which I need for work ... and I'm not about to screw with that install
>for the sake of testing another POS version of IE. 

You need a license for each instance of XP that you run. AFAIK, you only
need one license to multi-boot XP on a single computer (but you should
check that!) so I don't see why it would be any different for multiple
images run singly in a VM.

NB: I'm talking XP here; I vaguely recall something about the Vista EULA
(spit!) specifically excluding installation in a non-MS VM, so you'd
need to check with your lawyers on that one... :/

However, I'm using my MSDN Universal (or whatever it's now called) copy
of XP. I built an image once, backed it up, and it became my IE6 test
image. I copied it a couple of times for an IE7 image, an IE8 image (as
yet unused!), a Chrome image, and a .NET environment for running a
couple of Windows tools and testing legacy .ASP websites I have to
maintain from time to time.

It all runs very nicely in KVM, and lets me test in IE without shutting
down Linux :)

>but I'd love to
>be able to have a prinstine winXP image laying about that I
>can repeatedly screw up in the name of compatibility and
>cross-browser testing.

Certainly QEMU / KVM, and I'm pretty sure the others too, allow you to
run in snapshot mode whereby "hard drive writes" are held in temporary
files and only written back to the image if / when you tell the VM to
commit. Thus, you don't even need to refresh the image if you just test
in snapshot all the time. (and work with network data files, or version
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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Jochem Maas

Ross McKay schreef:

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:03:18 +0100, "Richard Heyes" wrote:


I really don't want to install a beta (though I did install Chrome, so
maybe that should be "an MS beta") but I am interested in how it
performs.


That's what God invented the virtual machine for. Load up Windows XP in
KVM, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware or whatever takes your fancy, then plaster
it with IE8b2 and see what breaks.


how do you handle licensing/activation in these VMs?
I have parallels on my Mac and a 'proper' bootcamp install of WinXP
which I need for work ... and I'm not about to screw with that install
for the sake of testing another POS version of IE. but I'd love to
be able to have a prinstine winXP image laying about that I
can repeatedly screw up in the name of compatibility and
cross-browser testing.



I have to admit it's been sitting in a folder here waiting for just that
to happen for ... when was it released? Crikey, work can really get in
the way sometimes, eh?  :)


amen to that.


(although I did find time to test Chrome in KVM - and I must say it is
fast, if not particularly useful yet)



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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:48 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Richard Heyes wrote:
> > Anyone using it?
> 
> Do you mean Firefox, Chrome or Safari? All of these are Internet 
> Explorer beaters

You forgot Opera you insensitive clod... it beats all 4!

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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Colin Guthrie

Richard Heyes wrote:

That's what God invented the virtual machine for

>>

God


Who?


I prefer some kind of Xen Buddhism...

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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Richard Heyes
> God

Who?

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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Ross McKay
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:03:18 +0100, "Richard Heyes" wrote:

>I really don't want to install a beta (though I did install Chrome, so
>maybe that should be "an MS beta") but I am interested in how it
>performs.

That's what God invented the virtual machine for. Load up Windows XP in
KVM, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware or whatever takes your fancy, then plaster
it with IE8b2 and see what breaks.

I have to admit it's been sitting in a folder here waiting for just that
to happen for ... when was it released? Crikey, work can really get in
the way sometimes, eh?  :)

(although I did find time to test Chrome in KVM - and I must say it is
fast, if not particularly useful yet)
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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Andrew Barnett
Sorry, but sarcasm doesn't quite come across email very effectively.


2008/9/8 Richard Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
>> I think he is asking whether people are using Internet Explore 8 Beta 2
>
> I am. That would be an obscure sense of humour.
>
>> No I'm not using it, I still haven't ugraded to IE7 yet, and probably
>> won't while I use Firefox 3, and am quite happy with FF3.
>
> I really don't want to install a beta (though I did install Chrome, so
> maybe that should be "an MS beta") but I am interested in how it
> performs.
>
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>
> HTML5 Graphing for IE7, FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:
> http://www.phpguru.org/RGraph
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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Richard Heyes
Hi,

> I think he is asking whether people are using Internet Explore 8 Beta 2

I am. That would be an obscure sense of humour.

> No I'm not using it, I still haven't ugraded to IE7 yet, and probably
> won't while I use Firefox 3, and am quite happy with FF3.

I really don't want to install a beta (though I did install Chrome, so
maybe that should be "an MS beta") but I am interested in how it
performs.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Andrew Barnett
I think he is asking whether people are using Internet Explore 8 Beta 2

No I'm not using it, I still haven't ugraded to IE7 yet, and probably
won't while I use Firefox 3, and am quite happy with FF3.


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[PHP] Re: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2

2008-09-08 Thread Colin Guthrie

Richard Heyes wrote:

Anyone using it?


Do you mean Firefox, Chrome or Safari? All of these are Internet 
Explorer beaters


Col



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