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		<title>Internet Explorer 7 RC1: Does it play nice off-line?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I know I will still need to develop for the IE6 browser for a number of years to come (damn) I have been reluctant to switch to the latest release of IE7 on my workstation.  But, with the advent of a seperate workstation at my office where my team can develop against multiple OSs, browsers and versions of [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Internet Explorer 7 RC1: Does it play nice off-line?", url: "http://dev.thekarchergroup.com/archives/4" });</script>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because I know I will still need to develop for the <a title="Internet Explorer 6" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/" target="_blank"><abbr title="Internet Explorer 6">IE6</abbr> browser</a> for a number of years to come (damn) I have been reluctant to switch to <a title="Internet Explorer 7" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/" target="_blank">the latest release of <abbr title="Internet Explorer 7">IE7</abbr></a> on my workstation.  But, with the advent of a seperate workstation at my office where my team can develop against multiple <abbr title="Operating Systems">OSs</abbr>, browsers and versions of those browsers, I&#8217;ve gone ahead and installed <abbr title="Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1">IE7 RC1</abbr>.</p>
<p>I have been very happy with all <a title="IE7 improvements" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/about/" target="_blank">the improvements in the new IE7 browser</a> and I think it was in Microsoft&#8217;s best interest to make this move towards <a title="The Web Standards Project" href="http://www.webstandards.org/" target="_blank">web standardization</a> and <a title="World Wide Web Consortium" href="http://www.w3.org/" target="_blank">recomendations of the <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym></a>, but since then I have experienced issues in Dreamweaver 8.  Specifically, it has been the loss of a select number of Usernames and Passwords saved in my <a title="Adobe® Dreamweaver 8" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/" target="_blank">Dreamw<font color="#810081">e</font>aver 8</a> website projects (each time I restart the software).  This may be purely coincidental, so I posted a question to the <a title="Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/" target="_blank">Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog</a> to find out.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted if/when I hear something back.</p>
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		<title>Fresh Installment: Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer coming a little while back.  This is Microsoft&#8217;s ramped-up attempt to grab some website development market share away from Adobe® Dreamweaver.  Although, the main problem I see in capturing any new portion is that there is no support for .PHP (likely though with a language developer creating the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fresh Installment: Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer", url: "http://dev.thekarchergroup.com/archives/3" });</script>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may have seen <a title="Microsoft Expression Web Designer" href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/default.mspx" target="_blank">Microsoft® Expression® Web Designer</a> coming a little while back.  This is Microsoft&#8217;s ramped-up attempt to grab some website development market share away from <a title="Adobe® Dreamweaver" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/" target="_blank">Adobe® Dreamweaver</a>.  Although, the main problem I see in capturing <em>any</em> new portion is that there is no support for .PHP (likely though with a language developer creating the product).</p>
<p>The software (known earlier as Quartz) was first publicly annouced back in September 2005 at <a title="Microsoft® ProfessionalDevelopers Conference" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/" target="_blank">Microsoft® Professional Developers Conference</a>.  In May 2006 the beta was released and as of late they have posted the first <abbr title="Community Technology Preview">CTP</abbr> for download.  <cite title="http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/wd_free_trial.aspx">This release promises to help you deliver and manage:</cite></p>
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<li>Standards-based Web sites</li>
<li>Sophisticated CSS-based layouts</li>
<li>Extensive CSS formatting and management</li>
<li>Rich data presentation</li>
<li>Powerful ASP.NET 2.0-based technology</li>
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<blockquote><p><cite title="Wayne Smith, product manager for Expression Web Designer">Wayne Smith, product manager for Expression Web Designer</cite> &#8230;We did our research; we heard time and time again that standards were important. So we wanted to create a Web design tool that met the needs of the professional Web design community&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>I would have to say this alone should be a huge improvement over working in the Visual Studio 2003 environment on the .NET Framework 1.1 alone which is what I am tormented using at present.</p>
<p>I will continue to post my likes and dislikes as time progresses.  If anyone will save me the grief of finding the dislikes and tell me I should stop right now, by all means please do.  I like to keep my self-inflicted torture to a minimum.</p>
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