Chat with the IE team?

Journal entry
July 8, 2004

This could be somewhat interesting: Windows XP Expert Zone Chat about Internet Explorer, today (Thursday, JUly 8th) at 10AM PST/19 CET. I don’t think I will be able to attend, but it could be interesting reading the transcript seeing if the IE team is actually getting the hint these days.

Update: Heh, when trying to access the chatroom using Firefox I am prompted to download a plugin. When installing that plugin I am faced with this dialog:

Do you wish to install Potential Security Holes for Netscape?

With the recent flaws in IE/ActiveX, I am not quite sure I want to add anything “Active” nor “X” to my browser. Ah well, time to fire up IE I guess.

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Derek J July 8, 2004

Well, I was there for it. I've got the logs if you missed it(both the dev comment window and the user comment window). I'm re-reading now to see if I missed anything in particular. Basically, it was just a whole lot of reassuring the 120 people present, that they care about security and customer satisfaction(their number 1 and 2 priorities, btw). That and saying IE is so integrated into windows, so that many other cool features can be used or developed, like help pages! Anywho...

Journal July 20, 2004

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