Re: InternetNews - Product News -- Internet Explorer 6 Beta to be Released This Quarter

Sweetheart (and I mean that in the nicest possible way!!), you keep talking
like that.

I'm a saddlin my painted pony!

:-)
Fuzzy.



At 11:25 PM 3/1/01 , Lead wrote:
>*snip*
>
>>According to the alleged notes, some of the new features of the browser 
>>include:
>>
>>*New Explorer bars -- existing Explorer bars include Search, Favorites and 
>>History; IE 6 will add a Media bar, Contacts bar, Search the Web bar, News 
>>bar, Personal bar, and the ability to add new HTML-based Explorer bars 
>>created by Microsoft or third-party developers
>>*Support for Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) standards -- IE 6 
>>includes a new Privacy tab on Internet Options which allows the user to 
>>set the level of privacy desired by specifying whether Web hosts may 
>>collect client information through cookies; IE 6 utilizes P3P 1.0
>>*Virus Protection in Outlook Express 6 -- the new option prevents 
>>applications that could potentially be a virus from being saved or opened
>>*General tab -- a Delete Cookies button has been added to the General tab 
>>of Internet options.
>
>*end snip*
>
>Search, favorites, media, contacts, web, news, personal, privacy 
>preferences, outlook express 6, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....
>
>Am I the only one who finds the ever increasing amount of space hogged up 
>by "features" I'll never use annoying? I don't WANT more bars and menus and 
>chopped up frames that clutter my window and eat severely into my usable 
>viewing space. Hell, I don't even want to have to be bothered with turning 
>them off.
>
>What I WANT in a browser is support of standards. I want full CSS 
>compliance. I want bugs worked out and idiosyncrasies fixed. I want it to 
>be faster, to run better, process more smoothly, launch faster, crash less 
>often, and to take less than 3 days to download for installation (without 
>having to then download for another 4 days getting all the pieces to make 
>it work correctly and as needed).
>
>Jeniffer (living in a fairy tale, and waiting for Prince Charming to come 
>along on his DSL connection...erm...white horse)
>OffLead Productions

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