Although, this is the same bug that people have been reporting forever since IE7 was in Beta and RC stages and nobody took any action on this. Valve didn't take it up with Microsoft, Valve didn't write the work-around code already, Microsoft didn't fix it.
Everyone dropped the ball, and now there's a rush to patch the hole now it's actually affecting people out in the wild. Part of the point of the IE7 beta was to ensure that stuff like this didn't happen. I'm glad at least that the rendering glitches that broke the "Get Steam Now" page and others on the Steam website were already fixed. The moral of this tale is, Valve guys, go grab the latest version of Vista you can and install it on a machine, and test your games and Steam on it, make sure it's all great. Make Steam games show up in the Vista Game Explorer. Make Steam play nice with UAC. Play around with extending Aero Glass into the Steam windows so that it looks awesome. Please! Vista is going to RTM real soon now, and it may already be too late to get Microsoft to work any of your feedback into Vista, but it's not too late to make Steam work fantastic on Vista when it starts being publicly available. This is all stuff you're going to have to do eventually anyway, but it just makes sense to get it in the can now ahead of time while it doesn't really matter so you don't have to pull people off other things to rush it when your average Joe starts installing Vista and starts getting really annoyed when Steam inexplicably fails to update any more because UAC is making the update fail. Which is especially tricky because you won't be able to push out the update which fixes Steam failing to update. You'll have to wait until that guy is frustrated enough to hit the Steam website, or start complaining to support. You want to give your customers the best possible experience. Make sure Steam works (and works well, you better support the Vista Games explorer or you're going to look lame) with Vista right out of the box. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Dodd Sent: 22 October 2006 18:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] IE7 and HTTP fast download issue Facts are wonderful things! Thank you. My apologies to Valve. This is definitely a Microsoft induced BUG not a feature change. On Oct 22, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Alfred Reynolds wrote: > We are working on a fix for the problem, should have something next > week. The bug is that the IE7 COM control now returns corrupt data > ocassionally for the document complete event, we are writing code to > counter that. > > - Alfred > > Father dougal wrote: >> -- >> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >> tut tut http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=489017 >> and >> from what i heard its nothing to do with valve its something micro >> wank has >> changed in IE7 maybe u should join the other hundred people who have >> reported this to both microsoft and valve and they keep pointing the >> finger >> at each other :) >> >> >> >> On 22/10/06, Matt Albiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> If anyone finds this alleged IE7 fix that's in the steam forums, can >>> you please share the link with the rest of us? >>> >>> On 10/22/06, ShootMe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> is it a client-based fix or a server-based fix? (search-function >>>> doesn't work in steamboard forums so i didn't find until now) >>>> >>>> if its a client-based fix you could forget it - and server-admins >>>> will have to decide if they would kill their servers with custom >>>> maps due removing fast-download or to loose players with IE7. >>>> >>>> A server-based fix (if possible) is mandatory or a client-based fix >>>> which could be provided with a regular steam-update that the user >>>> has no manual work to do. >>>> >>>> IE7 will be installed automatically through auto-update soon on >>>> WinXP Clients, so there should be a fix asap. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Thomas >>>> >>>> Father dougal wrote: >>>>> -- >>>>> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >>>>> u should realy look on steampowered.com forums as there is a fix >>>>> for this allready :) and it is a fix as my other pc is running >>>>> VISTA and i had to use it ;) >>>>> >>>>> On 22/10/06, Saint K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Bug confermed, we're dealing with the same issue here :( >>>>>> >>>>>> Saint K. >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Roman Hatsiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:56 PM >>>>>> Subject: [hlds] IE7 and HTTP fast download issue >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> This is something that is haunting IE7 users since first beta >>>>>>> releases - if fast downloads are enabled on server sometimes an >>>>>>> attempt to download missing file via HTTP just crashes the game. >>>>>>> IE7 was released few days ago and now we are receiving >>>>>>> increasing >>>>>>> number of complains about this issue. The only workaround is to >>>>>>> disable fast downloads but it is quite poor solution actually. >>>>>>> Dear Valve gurus, any plans to fix this issue? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Roman >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>> archives, please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matt Albiniak >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >> -- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
