Re: Can not install player
- From: cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:37:23 -0700
On Aug 7, 11:20 am, Niniel <Nin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First of all, upgrade to IE 7. It's much better; in fact, it's almost as good
as Firefox (from a usability point of view anyway), except that it doesn't
have all the cool and indispensable extensions. Once you have IE7, try
installing WMP11 again.
By accident, you might get WMP to work if you upgrade to IE7, if it
does something to the WMP in the process. However the troublesome site
works perfectly well on IE6.
IE7 is just a minor upgrade of IE6. It fixed a few bugs, especially
some css ones, adds tabbed browsing that other browsers already had,
and a few other things. It may have increased security a bit. Yet,
nearly alone among most other current browsers, IE of any upgrade can
not view pages written in xhtml and properly served as such with mime
type application/xhtml+xml. If you serve an xhtml page with the mime
type text/html as is done for html, you are just serving html and
there is no point in writing the page in xhtml - html 4.01 strict
would be better if you do not serve xhtml properly. And xhtml has been
around for several years now. IE7 is by far the worst browser commonly
used, and Firefox, Seamonkey, Opera, Safari etc will display proper
xhtml served properly and are far more compliant to W3C standards for
html including css.
I had hoped Microsoft would write a new decent browser now that they
have launched Vista and should have more time for other projects now.
But I have not heard anything about work on a new browser. Also
Microsoft still uses a lot of Microsoftese code that is not defined in
W3C web standards and is not supported by most other browsers. The IE7
browser is a disgrace, and Microsoft should be ashamed of it.
I only use IE now and then to view sites written by those who write
improper code, so that the site will not view on most browsers other
than IE. Of course, for the problem site MSNBC that started this
thread, I assume that MS may have some control over it. It is
interesting to note that many large sites have now dropped Microsoft
and Real video formats and are now using FLV/Flash for videos. For
example, Google, Myspace, YouTube, and several major news sites. FLV/
Flash can give everything from low resolution small videos for slow
connections to very high resolution, large videos suited for high
broadband. The important point is that flash now works well on most
browsers and on OSs other than Microsoft. Since WMP 10 and now with
WMP 11, the WMP can be installed only on a Microsoft XP or Vista
OSs.
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