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Thu 19/12/02 at 18:20
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Well, I've done my homework on this topic and found some German Website of a mag. It has rumours of InterNet Explorer 7 with its features.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=
UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=http%
3A%2F%2Fwww.pcwelt.
de%2Fnews%2Fsoftware%2F26780%2F
&btnG=Google+Search

Then Tanslate the page, After that you'll come to the rumour.

Anyway. These maybe only rumours but quite good ones after all.

With stuff like:

"The user will receive more control of Popups. InterNet lives on advertisement, therefore Microsoft will not integrate a function, with which the announcement of Popups can be completely prevented. However the Popups the possibility can when desired be taken of opening several times or in the frame mode"

And a spell check,

"The spell verification and the thesaurus of Office 11 will function also within the Browsers."

Sorry about the link size. But i hope you won't mind too much.
Fri 20/12/02 at 11:17
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"Eff, you see, kay?"
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It's the same story here - Mozilla, from 0.9.1 to 1.2.1, has never crashed once on me, yet explorer dies frequently.

There's probably a reason to that, but troubleshooting windows is indecribably difficult, so I'm just going to re-install once I get my disc back.
Fri 20/12/02 at 01:02
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Internet Explorer has 19 unpatched security holes: www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/ Mozilla has...I don't know, but I'm guessing less than 19. I think they actually withdrew a release a while back because a hole was found. This is the way security issues should be dealt with. In summary, I feel safer browsing with Mozilla than I do with IE.

And stability? I think Mozilla 1.21 has crashed once on me in XP, never in Linux. 1.01 was less stable under XP, but I could probably still remember each specific crash. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, has died on me with monotonous regularity, usually taking the operating system down with it.
Fri 20/12/02 at 00:42
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unknown kernel wrote:
> So it's going to be not quite as good as Mozilla. I wonder if it will
> no longer crash, or be riddled with security holes. Good old
> Microsoft!


Mozilla security or stability is not yet in the same league as Internet Explorer, would you believe it.
Fri 20/12/02 at 00:03
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I just installed dictd and it is deeply cool. My favourite is the devil's dictionary:

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he
thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His
chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own
species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to
infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.

When the world was young and Man was new,
And everything was pleasant,
Distinctions Nature never drew
'Mongst kings and priest and peasant.
We're not that way at present,
Save here in this Republic, where
We have that old regime,
For all are kings, however bare
Their backs, howe'er extreme
Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice
To accept the tyrant of his party's choice.

A citizen who would not vote,
And, therefore, was detested,
Was one day with a tarry coat
(With feathers backed and breasted)
By patriots invested.
"It is your duty," cried the crowd,
"Your ballot true to cast
For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed,
And explained his wicked past:
"That's what I very gladly would have done,
Dear patriots, but he has never run."
Apperton Duke


Superb.
Thu 19/12/02 at 22:58
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"Eff, you see, kay?"
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I always use dictd, a great little spellcheckers. It has an acronym dictionary as well.

rob@euripides:~$ dict WYSIWYG
1 definition found

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms June 2002 [vera]:

WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get (DTP)

Pretty cool :D
Thu 19/12/02 at 21:13
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There's an open source spellchecker at http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/ and the built in spell checker is planned for 1.3b. Huzzah! I wonder whether IE7 will be released before then? And I also wonder if it will still be rubbish. No, wait, I don't.
Thu 19/12/02 at 19:53
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Yawn, Microsoft copying opensource software again. I wonder if there's a dict plugin for Moz...
Thu 19/12/02 at 18:48
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So it's going to be not quite as good as Mozilla. I wonder if it will no longer crash, or be riddled with security holes. Good old Microsoft!
Thu 19/12/02 at 18:47
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I'm personally most looking forward to the spell check, And the Theme changer? Or is it Skin changer?
Thu 19/12/02 at 18:45
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This is what I found over at pcrules.com:
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Heres what to expect:

1) There will be a spell checker for forms and for people who have office xp there will be a theasaurus, both will work in the same way as the right click menu that already exists in MS word
2) There will be no popup stopper but there will be limits on what popups can do (no full screen and multiple popups etc)
3. There is likely to be some sort of tab UI but it is going to be different to that of Mozilla and Opera.
4. There will be some sort of theme ability similar to that of Opera and Netscape
5. There will be many new features for windows XP users that will not be in 98,98SE, ME

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