IE 7 Beta 2 Preview Released
Just when you thought it was safe to use Internet Explorer, the IE 7 Beta 2 Preview has just been released and can be downloaded. As with all other versions of IE, this one will eat up your current IE 6, never to be seen again until you uninstall IE 7 Beta. So it’s probably best if you don’t download this on your main development machine, as there are to be some major changes in the layout of pages.
New in this release are some user interface changes, as well as built-in RSS reader similar to what Safari offers. I’m interested to see if this version has the native XMLHttp object.
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It is supposed to have native XHR support, yes.
You can run IE 7 by extracting the install file and removing SHLWAPI.DLL
You must then create a new (empty) file called IEXPLORE.EXE.LOCAL and voila you can run IE 7 from where you unpacked it.
Note though that I am not sure if this is 100% the same as having a real installation.
José Jeria on January 31st, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Nice tip, José.
One thing I’ve noticed is I cannot open links in a new tab. I have to open a tab, copy the location of the link, and paste it in the new tab. Other than that, it seems to work well in this configuration.
Jeremy on February 1st, 2006 at 9:54 am
It would be better to read http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/16/504864.aspx and http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/12/28/434132.aspx
before trying this.
I’ve experienced serious problems ’cause IE6 Cumulative Security Update (Dec 13) had been installed.
Alexei on February 2nd, 2006 at 5:04 am
BTW, José and Jeremy, it seems you should pay more attention to applying security updates
).
Alexei on February 2nd, 2006 at 5:55 am
Aha! Thanks for the linkage; IE’s been acting strange since doing this.
As for being updated: I am. Our group policy makes sure of it.
Jeremy on February 2nd, 2006 at 9:41 am
About the security issue, I use Firefox
José Jeria on February 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 am
Ha! Since when was it safe to use Explorer?
Richard York on February 14th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
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