Singing Wolf Technology NewsThe latest browser, media player and O/S news and updatesMozilla 1.8 Beta 1 Released- February 26, 2005 The Mozilla Foundation today released Mozilla 1.8 Beta 1, the first beta of the 1.8 cycle after a record-breaking six alphas. The Mozilla 1.8 Beta 1 Release Notes have more information about this latest development milestone. While there's no major new features, there's several minor improvements detailed in the 1.8b1 readme and the rough 1.8b1 changelog. Web developers may be interested to hear that this release has partial support for ECMAScript for XML (E4X), which adds native XML support to.http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#moz18b1 Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3802 Released- February 16, 2005 Windows Media Player 10 is the multimedia software developed by Microsoft to provide users with the ability to view multimedia content, both from the Internet and from their hard drive. This program allows you to view MPEG and various other types of video content, as well as audio clips. Includes special new features optimized for Windows XP.http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/media-player-news/#wmr103802 Internet Explorer 7.0 Coming Soon- February 15, 2005 Today Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7.0 is now going to be available before the "Longhorn" version of Windows, which is not expected until at least mid 2006. It will be avaible to Licensed Windows XP users that have installed Service Pack 2 (SP2) and above. Microsoft cited security as it's main reason for the about face of it's long standing policy that any new IE versions would only ship with OS upgrades. However many believe that the sudden change is in response to the wildly...http://www.singingwolf.com.au/news-stories/browser-news/#ie7 |