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An Interview with Gary Schare, Director of IE Product | |
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| Time: 00:03 EST/05:03 GMT | News Source: the Hive | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Terri Stratton from the Hive sat down with Gary Schare, Director of Internet Explorer Product Management, to talk one on one about the big changes coming in IE7. Get the latest word on the IE7 innovations--in navigation, security, content delivery, and more | ||
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| #1 By 38762 (68.147.47.129) at 6/28/2006 2:23:52 AM |
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The whole issue of toolbar customization was clearly sidestepped and the interviewer didn't catch it or chose not to pursue the matter.
"TS> Other popular browsers have highly user-customizable toolbars, what does IE offer? GS>> There has always been great extensibility in IE and IE7 is no exception. There are many toolbars available today such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Windows Live, etc. and these will all continue to work when upgrading to IE7. Of course they can also be added by the user just as they have previously, provided the user has the privilege to install applications on their PC." This has nothing to do with customizing the browser, only about adding 3rd party toolbars. As far as I know MS remains dedicated to having all the toolbars fixed and unchangable. |
| #2 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 6/28/2006 12:13:39 PM |
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Also sidestepped:
"TS> Compared to Firefox, can you tell us what features we might look forward to in Beta3 and beyond? GS>> IE7 Beta 2 is pretty much feature complete. At this point in the development cycle, there may be some minor changes but we don’t expect to add any major new features. Any new features requested during beta testing will be noted. Feature requests will be prioritized and considered for the next release after IE7. " |
| #3 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 6/28/2006 12:16:15 PM |
| Microsoft innovates again. They've fixed some security issues, and added tabs. They managed to innovate IE up to the level of Firefox 1.x, or just about any version of Opera. |
| #4 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 6/28/2006 2:06:02 PM |
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Drive-by spyware install issue is still not fixed.
Nothing will matter until it is. -Larry |
| #5 By 17996 (131.107.0.72) at 6/28/2006 2:13:50 PM |
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#4 - First of all, don't run as admin. That will prevent a lot of drive-by installs, since most of this type of spyware isn't smart enough to be LUA-compliant (LUA=least-priviliged user account). Even if you do get something, at least you haven't hosed your entire machine, just one user account.
Second of all, this is a non-issue in Vista because of protected mode: any drive-by installs couldn't write any files outside of the Temporary Internet Files folder. |
| #6 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/28/2006 2:21:19 PM |
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#2: Notice how they can't even say the name? F-I-R-E-F-O-X.
#5: Yeah, right, until the first exploit comes out that allows code to be saved & run outside the sandbox. With MS, security is never a 'non-issue". |
| #7 By 17996 (131.107.0.105) at 6/28/2006 4:10:16 PM |
| #6: Well, since Firefox doesn't have any sort of sandboxing at all, IE has a leg up here. |
| #8 By 61 (71.251.77.180) at 6/28/2006 5:59:51 PM |
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Not only that, but the entire process is sandboxed.
So even a buffer overflow exploit in IE can not be used to effect the rest of the system. Also, the user ALWAYS has to agree to installing the app/active-X control. Since the user has to say "yes, install this" it doesn't make a difference if ActiveX is there or not, as it's no different than downloading and installing a full blown app. #1 IE's toolbars up to and including IE6 have always been COMPLETELY customizeable and MUCH MUCH better than Opera or Firefox. Now they have lost some of that. I used to keep everything in one line but you can't do that anymore. Of course, having tabs would make that impossible anyway. |
| #9 By 10748 (169.3.169.174) at 6/29/2006 12:11:18 PM |
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Some of you guys really just don't understand the politics of feature integration that Microsoft has to deal with that Opera and Firefox can ignore.
If you change the tool bar scheme you will break the accessibility for many screen readers etc. Does Microsoft want 20 law suits over accessibility? Nope, they don't. Do they want to see their corporate IT have to deal with a bunch of home grown apps slapped into IE that would be a support nightmare? Nope... IE unfortunately has to play to the lowest denominator, it's not the geeks wanting the newest and coolest. It's those with disabilities and corparate users. IE 5 had a great modifiable tool bar until it was pulled before shipping... Why? Because of the reasons above. Think about the whole picture people. |
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