{"id":8649,"date":"2005-11-01T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2005-11-01T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T16:23:44","slug":"ie-7-like-firefox-only-narc-ier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8649","title":{"rendered":"IE 7: Like Firefox, Only Narc-ier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Information Week has a preview\/review<\/A> of the forthcoming Internet Explorer 7. It offers tabs (gee, what an innovation), an RSS feature like Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, and a new “security feature” that’s rather troubling. The new browser contains a “Phishing Filter” which scans site content and determines whether it’s “suspicious” or not. It looks for clues that you could have landed on a phishing (scam) site and alerts you to the danger. Trouble is, in the IW tests, it branded sites as “suspicious” that were completely legit — like one of the reviewer’s own websites! To get your website off of Redmond’s blacklist, you have to fill out a form of information and send it to them, for EVERY suspicious page on the site. Microsoft assures us that this’ll all be just peachy and keen before the new browser ships.<\/p>\n

Oh, and they’ve nixed the traditional File, Edit, View, etc. menu bar (as the default, anyway — you can turn it back on, if you can find the preference for it). <\/p>\n

There just aren’t enough clue-by-fours in the world to whack a lick of sense into these people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Information Week has a preview\/review of the forthcoming Internet Explorer 7. It offers tabs (gee, what an innovation), an RSS feature like Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, and a new “security feature” that’s rather troubling. The new browser contains a “Phishing Filter” which scans site content and determines whether it’s “suspicious” or not. It looks for clues … <\/p>\n

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