IE7 Separated from Windows Explorer

[Dominus Atheos]

Microsoft's Next Browser
Finally, an armored Explorer

PodcastsBack in the mid-1990s, security experts warned Microsoft that integrating a Web browser deeply into Windows was a mistake. A decade and countless security vulnerabilities later, Microsoft is tacitly conceding the critics had it right. The new version of Internet Explorer to be released as part of the Vista version of Windows this fall -- and separately for Windows XP -- loses much of the privileged relationship with Windows that the Microsoft browser has long enjoyed

Anyone know if Windows Explorer is going to have tabs?

[DaveJB]

Anyone know if Windows Explorer is going to have tabs?

The current beta version has them, and IMO they're even implemented better than they are in FireFox.

[Dahak]

Only problem I have is that the Beta 2 of IE7 seems to identify itself not correctly. I had a webpage that won't load because it thinks I browse with IE4...

[Dooey Jo]

So... when are they going to implement the W3C standards? Or are they going to force the world to be stuck with their own shitty CSS "1.5" forever?

Good thing they're separating it from the Windows Explorer, though. Perhaps it will be possible to remove it from the computer completely in the future...

[Xon]

They implement most of CSS 2.0 & parts of 2.1

However, both are moving targets and fundamentally broken specs