Microsoft Internet Explorer development team has just released a new english beta build 1330 of Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 that is strictly reserved to the lucky Microsoft beta-testers and any leaks!!! LOL
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (build 6.0.2813.3000) Date 5th of Feb 2002 Release Notes supplied by NeoWin
Before you download the most current build of IE 6 SP 1, we wanted to inform you of some of the intricacies of this particular build. Issues that you may encounter will be documented here each time we deliver a new build to you (we call these known issues). We've also highlighted some items of interest to developers below in the developer's notes section.
Receiving your bug reports is time critical. If you are seeing serious bugs (crashes, blocking sites' functionality, or regressions from previous releases) please file a bug immediately and bring it to our attention in the Tech Beta newsgroup.
Known Issues
User Agent
After uninstall the user agent may not revert back to the previous version.
Disappearing IE icons work-around The IE icons and links from the desktop, taskbar, and programs menu disappear when a user first logs on after rebooting a machine running Windows XP and IE 6 SP 1. To make the icons reappear, turn off Internet Explorer in the Control Panel and then turn it back on.
Do not reinstall Windows 2000 Service Packs Reinstalling a Windows 2000 Service Pack will result in the loss of the ability to uninstall Internet Explorer. The Windows 2000 Service Pack team no longer recommends reinstalling Service Packs as was recommended on the NT 4.0 operating system. This is because Windows File Protection prevents corruption of system files.
Accessing Windows Update after uninstall of IE 6 SP 1 After you uninstall this TechBeta build, Tools -> Windows Update may take you to a page that does not exist. You can access the correct Windows Update site by going to Start -> Windows Update or typing http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ in your browser.
Privacy settings work-around If you experience problems in using a particular web site or receive errors related to cookies try adjusting your Internet Explorer Privacy settings to Low to ensure compatibility. Below are steps to accomplish that.
1. In Internet Explorer, click on Tools and select Internet Options.
2. Click the Privacy tab.
3. Adjust the Privacy Preferences slider to Low.
The failure is most likely because the site makes use of third party cookies that have no compact policies. You should let us and the site know of these problems, so that they deploy compact policies in advance of the release of Internet Explorer 6 SP 1.
Windows Update After installing Internet Explorer 6 SP1, when visiting Windows Update, you may be prompted to install various updates that do not apply to your system. This is due to the fact that Windows Update is not currently set up to handle Internet Explorer 6 SP1, and is by design.
Developer's Notes
SMIL 2.0 Expanded support for the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Working Group's SMIL 2.0 proposed recommendation through a new version of HTML+TIME.
Msxml3 registers itself over msxml In this tech beta, msxml3 will register itself over any existing version of msxml on your machine, routing all calls into msxml to msxml3. (Msxml3 is the first version of msxml that is completely compliant with W3C standards and the first version of msxml to support XSL/T.) Please verify that data islands and all xml related behavior works as expected.
IFRAME security="restricted" A new property has been added to the Frame and IFrame elements: Security="restricted". This new property has the ability to push the Frame/IFrame into the restricted zone so the security setting for this zone will be placed on the contents within the frame. The key scenario here is to prevent malicious script or ActiveX controls from running within a frame on a web-based email application.
Here's an example scenario: John wants to check his mail on Yahoo. He goes to the Yahoo site, logs in and notices that he's got a new message from hacker@hacker.com. Thinking that everything is safe and secure, he clicks on the mail, which displays the contents within an iframe. If we did not have the security property available to us, the iframe will exist within the same security zone as the rest of the application. This will allow the hacker to write malicious script that can access the parent window and browse through the rest of John's mail. The hacker may also have the ability to run destructive ActiveX controls. By forcing the frame into the restricted zone with security="restricted", script cannot execute and ActiveX controls cannot run.
Custom Cursor The user is now able to generate their own cursor. Even animation is possible! IE supports .cur and .ani files. The look of the existing cursor has been changed to be standard CSS2 compliant.
Focus events Due to historic compatibility with Netscape, onfocus/onblur are asynchronous and non-bubbling events. Developers have a hard time generating reliable focus driven scenarios because the timing of these events is unpredictable. To solve these issues a solution has been provided by adding two new events: onfocusin and onfocusout. Please verify that these new events get fired as expected and check the From/To source property.
"onmousewheel" event This event allows you to track the mousewheel movements. Please verify that the delta is returned correctly and that the behavior is as expected in controls such as Textbox and Select.
So scroll down to the bottom of the page for your download of Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (build 6.0.2813.3000)
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (build 6.0.2813.3000) Date 5th of Feb 2002 Release Notes supplied by NeoWin
Before you download the most current build of IE 6 SP 1, we wanted to inform you of some of the intricacies of this particular build. Issues that you may encounter will be documented here each time we deliver a new build to you (we call these known issues). We've also highlighted some items of interest to developers below in the developer's notes section.
Receiving your bug reports is time critical. If you are seeing serious bugs (crashes, blocking sites' functionality, or regressions from previous releases) please file a bug immediately and bring it to our attention in the Tech Beta newsgroup.
Known Issues
User Agent
After uninstall the user agent may not revert back to the previous version.
Disappearing IE icons work-around The IE icons and links from the desktop, taskbar, and programs menu disappear when a user first logs on after rebooting a machine running Windows XP and IE 6 SP 1. To make the icons reappear, turn off Internet Explorer in the Control Panel and then turn it back on.
Do not reinstall Windows 2000 Service Packs Reinstalling a Windows 2000 Service Pack will result in the loss of the ability to uninstall Internet Explorer. The Windows 2000 Service Pack team no longer recommends reinstalling Service Packs as was recommended on the NT 4.0 operating system. This is because Windows File Protection prevents corruption of system files.
Accessing Windows Update after uninstall of IE 6 SP 1 After you uninstall this TechBeta build, Tools -> Windows Update may take you to a page that does not exist. You can access the correct Windows Update site by going to Start -> Windows Update or typing http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ in your browser.
Privacy settings work-around If you experience problems in using a particular web site or receive errors related to cookies try adjusting your Internet Explorer Privacy settings to Low to ensure compatibility. Below are steps to accomplish that.
1. In Internet Explorer, click on Tools and select Internet Options.
2. Click the Privacy tab.
3. Adjust the Privacy Preferences slider to Low.
The failure is most likely because the site makes use of third party cookies that have no compact policies. You should let us and the site know of these problems, so that they deploy compact policies in advance of the release of Internet Explorer 6 SP 1.
Windows Update After installing Internet Explorer 6 SP1, when visiting Windows Update, you may be prompted to install various updates that do not apply to your system. This is due to the fact that Windows Update is not currently set up to handle Internet Explorer 6 SP1, and is by design.
Developer's Notes
SMIL 2.0 Expanded support for the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Working Group's SMIL 2.0 proposed recommendation through a new version of HTML+TIME.
Msxml3 registers itself over msxml In this tech beta, msxml3 will register itself over any existing version of msxml on your machine, routing all calls into msxml to msxml3. (Msxml3 is the first version of msxml that is completely compliant with W3C standards and the first version of msxml to support XSL/T.) Please verify that data islands and all xml related behavior works as expected.
IFRAME security="restricted" A new property has been added to the Frame and IFrame elements: Security="restricted". This new property has the ability to push the Frame/IFrame into the restricted zone so the security setting for this zone will be placed on the contents within the frame. The key scenario here is to prevent malicious script or ActiveX controls from running within a frame on a web-based email application.
Here's an example scenario: John wants to check his mail on Yahoo. He goes to the Yahoo site, logs in and notices that he's got a new message from hacker@hacker.com. Thinking that everything is safe and secure, he clicks on the mail, which displays the contents within an iframe. If we did not have the security property available to us, the iframe will exist within the same security zone as the rest of the application. This will allow the hacker to write malicious script that can access the parent window and browse through the rest of John's mail. The hacker may also have the ability to run destructive ActiveX controls. By forcing the frame into the restricted zone with security="restricted", script cannot execute and ActiveX controls cannot run.
Custom Cursor The user is now able to generate their own cursor. Even animation is possible! IE supports .cur and .ani files. The look of the existing cursor has been changed to be standard CSS2 compliant.
Focus events Due to historic compatibility with Netscape, onfocus/onblur are asynchronous and non-bubbling events. Developers have a hard time generating reliable focus driven scenarios because the timing of these events is unpredictable. To solve these issues a solution has been provided by adding two new events: onfocusin and onfocusout. Please verify that these new events get fired as expected and check the From/To source property.
"onmousewheel" event This event allows you to track the mousewheel movements. Please verify that the delta is returned correctly and that the behavior is as expected in controls such as Textbox and Select.
So scroll down to the bottom of the page for your download of Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (build 6.0.2813.3000)
