I’ve got to share this quote from Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc. I don’t know if he said this exactly, but according to the YUI Blog:
Blank web pages are fast. Web pages become slow because you put stuff in them.
Enough said!
The sysadmin type people at my work don’t want to move to IE7 probably until there is an SP1 release. While I understand their reluctance, it is frustrating developing for IE6 knowing that a better corporate SOE alternative exists! A lot of the leak issues we experience now will be minimised, and the speed improvements alone are a compelling reason to upgrade.
I hope Microsoft release a SP1 release soon.. What if they never do, and we have to wait until IE8!?
However, there are other issues.. Other internal/external web applications, that the organisation relies upon, will need to work with the new version, and I don’t think we will upgrade until that can be guaranteed.