{"id":922,"date":"2006-02-04T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=922"},"modified":"2006-02-04T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T04:21:49","slug":"a-browser-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"A Browser Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> see that <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/browserhistory.jpg\" title=\"Browser history\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/browserhistory.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Browser history\" height=\"51\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>Microsoft released the second beta of IE 7, this time open for the public. Many others have commented on the release: some extremely pleased (&#8216;RSS Platform&#8217;), others received the news with plenty of skepticism. I&#8217;m not impressed, for the simple matter that I do not believe that IE 7.0 is an actual upgrade if compared to Gecko, KHTML or the Opera engine (all three renderers have been rewritten from scratch to accommodate new CSS\/HTML\/XHTML standards).\n<\/p>\n<p>The day that Microsoft decides to rewrite the engine might be the big day, but as far as it looks now, IE 7.0 is still a patched up <em>Mosaic<\/em> browser that was taught to do CSS tricks because it became the next rage after HTML 3.0 died.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I took the freedom to put together a map (timeline) of browser. If I forgot things or facts, please fill me in.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/asa\/archives\/2006\/02\/my_thoughts_on.html\">Asa Dotzler reviews IE7.0<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/2006\/02\/02\/a-story-of-cane-and-able-and-the-browser-that-rode-chariots\/\">Cane and Able<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/31\/microsoft-ships-rss-enabled-software-and-platform\/\">&#8220;As Long As It Supports RSS 2.0, Microsoft Rules!&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reviews-zdnet.com.com\/Internet_Explorer_7_for_XP_SP2_Beta_2\/4505-3514_16-31454661-2.html?tag=sub\">And more reviews<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Microsoft released the second beta of IE 7, this time open for the public. Many others have commented on the release: some extremely pleased (&#8216;RSS Platform&#8217;), others received the news with plenty of skepticism. I&#8217;m not impressed, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=922\">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\/922"}],"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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}