Posted on 03/17/2015 8:18:12 AM PDT by lbryce
The end is finally in sight for Microsoft’s long-fraught Internet Explorer. At the Microsoft Convergence conference yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s head of marketing, said that the new flagship browser for Windows, which was announced in January and is codenamed Project Spartan, will not be associated with the Internet Explorer brand.
While Internet Explorer will still exist on Windows 10 for compatibility purposes, it will take a back seat to the new browser.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
S what they said in San Francisco.....
LOL
What do you call somebody who buys new microsoft software as soon as it comes out? A beta tester.
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My box is an office-industrial grade HP from 2009, running Win-7 Pro x64, and is still strong as the dickens, so I’m staying with it. IE’s part of the OS, but I’ve never used it, so it’s there/not there. XP was a good OS, too. I tried Win-8 on my sister’s new HP laptop; she put it away since no one could root-out v8.0 and install 7, and went full-blown Apple/Mac. There’s plenty of HPs with Win-7 available.
I think HTML5 has incorporated Java.
If so, that should do something for security...
A very fitting end for most desktops....
Yes, all true. I never extolled the virtues of other browsers. With all their faults and there are many they are not the laggard browser IE always was.
Suggest NOT using IE7, IE8, or IE9. Suggest NOT using XP while connected to Internet. Recommend purchasing a low-cost reconditioned Windows 7 computer ASAP.
Just a suggestion but a really good idea.
great! another new ‘upgrade’ that will not work as good and have less features, I bet
(there’s precedent)
but I thought it was part of the operating system!!
Spartan, eh? Stay tuned for the 300 humor.
As a web developer, I have to say that IE hasn’t been the dog that everybody thinks it is for a while... since IE 9 it’s light years better in terms of standards compliance and rarely do I have to do anything special to make things work with versions of IE after version 8. It’s got better support for the newest standards than than Firefox or Chrome in some respects, though worse in others. Most folks don’t realize that every browser has incomplete support for the standards and they all sometimes require workarounds and special little “hacks” if you’re going to do anything very complicated.
I hear you, don’t use the clunker much for the internet and I have a current version of Norton running on it. I am looking at a Windows 7 clearance desktop looks like I can get one for 300 or less. Now just to get the 300. :)
That's not accurate. Java is a standalone programming language that is not built into HTML 5 at all. People often confuse Java with JavaScript which are completely unrelated except for some common syntax. JavaScript is the primary language used by web browsers for interactive web pages. Java can be used for this with a special plugin (often buggy and insecure) but it is much less common. If you do have Java on your computer you must, must, must keep it up to date with the latest updates and run it with the default security restrictions.
Netscape was my fav. I use Firefox on the desktop and Chrome on the laptop.
I had Netscape 1.22 once, worked for me
I still have Netscape’s 9.x browser on my system, but haven’t used it in a few years.
Netscape Browser Archive:
I don’t know about FF (though I’ve heard it’s suffered from bloat in the past few years), but Chrome is relatively lightweight. UNLESS...
Unless, you install a bunch of customizations and plugins. Then it’s got to go out to the cloud to get all of your junk before it starts up properly.
I don’t bother with any of that, and Chrome runs like greased lightning on my computers. HOWEVER, I still mainly run IE because of one feature: the drop down list on the address bar that shows recently visited websites.
I never could go full on Chrome because of that one feature. The rest of my family, including my little-old-lady-user wife, swears by it though and have pretty much abandoned IE.
[[since IE 9 it’s light years better in terms of standards compliance and rarely do I have to do anything special to make things work with versions of IE after version 8.]]
Exactly, I’m not constantly looking online to find out how to customize it to how I like to use it like I was when I tried FF and opera- and I’m not constantly running into websites that don’t display correctly like I was wuith FF and opera
[[all sometimes require workarounds and special little “hacks” if you’re going to do anything very complicated]]
I kept finding htat FF and oepra required hacks or workarounds to get basic uncomplicated websites to display well
plus the fact that FF and Chrome and I think even newer versions of opera are all linked to google somehow- something I don’t want my browser linked to-
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