Comments on: Open letter to the IE Team

By: skhan

skhan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:36:39 +0000

Thanks Emil ! I wish that IE team responds to your letter soon… which doesn’t seem possible since they haven’t done anything even after two years of ur letter and millions of feed backs they might have recieved about this issue!

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:22:31 +0000

@skhan: Yes, that’s the way I’m doing it right now.

By: skhan

skhan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:08:43 +0000

Hi,
So whats better for now? Do I need to first upgrade to IE7 and then isntall that evolt’s standalone version of IE 6?
Would I be able to run both versions of IE side by side by doing this?

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:10:55 +0000

@Johnny: One semi-reply was that they released an image with IE6 included. I still think needing a disk image just to try a different version of a program is far too much work.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:51:08 +0000

Still no response to this issue?

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:16:17 +0000

@John Doe: I don’t know frankly. IE7 is better than IE6 but it still has compatability problems with other programs I hear, so just try it both ways and see which one you like best.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:21:17 +0000

Is it better to use IE 6 or 7 as standalone ?

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:06:49 +0000

@Gonzalo Arin: I didn’t, I use the standalone IE6 recommended in the comments. Seems to work ok.

By: Gonzalo Arin

Gonzalo Arin — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:39:42 +0000

Hello Emil,
Great site.
I wonder if you finally installed the free Virtual PC from Microsoft and if so, how do you evaluate it.
Thank you.

By: norbert

norbert — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:40:55 +0000

hi emil,
strange move yes but it shows the attitude of global players. it is allways good to know what to have and expect from others (and form oneself).
As others already said, one should not neglect 90 % of MSIE users - at least when one depends on some kind of income to make a living.

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:31:50 +0000

@norbert: No reply. I sent it to their blog and directly to their manager. Roger Johansson featured it on his blog too so it should have reached them. Strange move not replying to a simple question…

By: norbert

norbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:34:45 +0000

ups forgott, thank you for your great and helpfull page. i appreciate it.

By: norbert

norbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:32:34 +0000

it is ’cause MS does not care, just want’s to cash in, they do not give a damn about developers and poor guys e.g. small companys who cannot afford prof. designers. i have to learn html and css by myself in spare time and it is laborous to get the same look and feel across the browser.
but did MS answer you? would be cuiros to read it.

By: IE Can’t Put Out the Fire(fox) at Web Design Bytes

IE Can’t Put Out the Fire(fox) at Web Design Bytes — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:37:41 +0000

[...] According to this post in the IE7 blog, CSS implementation has been improved, which I commend, however, improvements were done to other browsers years ago, when they should have been. This and some other issues have left web designers in a bit of a conundrum, as pointed out by Roger Johansson and Emil Stenström. [...]

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Sat, 20 May 2006 09:33:54 +0000

@John van V: As I replied to oliver, it doesn’t work like that. IE7 contains great improvements for their rendering engine and will make it a lot easier to develop cross browser sites.