{"id":690,"date":"2005-07-29T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T01:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=690"},"modified":"2005-07-30T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T21:59:49","slug":"the-ie7-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"The IE7 Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>een (and read) the buzz about IE7? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molly.com\/2005\/07\/28\/thats-why-its-called-beta\/\"> Holzschlag,<\/a>, &#8230; and well, everybody who has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&#038;q=IE7&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;meta=\">blog<\/a> nowadays. Some of them are in anticipation. Some of them are waiting for something spectacular from Microsoft&#8217;s hands. And some of them, well, if you get paid by the company itself, wouldn&#8217;t you be writing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2005\/07\/28.html#a10776\">positive news<\/a><\/em>, just to keep the buzz going?\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a couple of questions I&#8217;d like to ask the IE7 team:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">To support future CSS extensions and to remain true to standards: have you rewritten the IE7 engine? Has this ever been under consideration? Is the main codebase still based on code from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=209\">Mosaic<\/a> (Self link to a 2003 posting)?\n<\/p>\n<p>If so (Still Mosaic based), <em>don&#8217;t bother<\/em> going along with the buzz: I think it&#8217;s impossible to build better CSS support on technologies from an <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/SDG\/Software\/Mosaic\/\">Older Age<\/a>. Also: If you run IE7, do me a favour and grab a snapshot from the About Explorer box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen (and read) the buzz about IE7? Holzschlag,, &#8230; and well, everybody who has a blog nowadays. Some of them are in anticipation. Some of them are waiting for something spectacular from Microsoft&#8217;s hands. And some of them, well, if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}