IE7 Beta 2

I just fired up Vmware and installed IE7 Beta 2. While I really can’t comment on how it will work as an everyday browser, I did do some minor testing of the web app I have been writing. Interestingly enough, I went into the javascript:


if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
requestObject = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else if(window.ActiveXObject) {
requestObject = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");
}
return requestObject;
}


And made it look like:


// if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
requestObject = new XMLHttpRequest();
// } else if(window.ActiveXObject) {
// requestObject = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");
// }
return requestObject;
}


…And IT WORKED!

This is pretty fantastic. I still won’t use it. It doesn’t run on linux and it’s not pluggable like FF, but still. Very cool that in 10 years just about every web app will become 3 lines lighter in code :)