Autodesk is reporting through its network of employee-bloggers that Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Release Candidate 1 breaks its DWF and DWG viewing programs. Users are being advised to avoid downloading IE7 until the problem is solved.
The affected programs include Autodesk DWF Viewer, Autodesk Design Review, and Autodesk DWG TrueView. These three Autodesk applications use HTML as part of their menu interfaces, and they look to the code in Internet Explorer for operational support.
The heart of the problem is that Microsoft Internet Explorer is more than a browser; it is part of the Windows operating system. As Autodesk employee-blogger Scott Sheppard explains, “In addition to the browser executable, Internet Explorer consists of many supporting libraries that are related to functionality as common as the opening and saving of files. Internet Explorer is really part of the operating system. It affects how HTML pages are browsed on the Internet or how HTML is used as part of menu systems for Windows applications.”
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--RSN