Internet Explorer 7

[tecnowraith]

So who here has downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7? It has a lot of new features including a similar feature from Firefox, Tab Browsing. Yes you heard that right, Tab Browsing is now part IE7. A redesign of the interface and favorites section as well. The other question is who will be switching over?

 

[Mercule]

I've been using it at home since the Beta 2. I like it quite a bit. It performs better for me than FireFox ever has.

As a web developer, I'm impatiently awaiting the time when my company migrates from IE6.

 

[drothgery]

I've been using it at home since RC1 and at work since launch. A few sites look a bit odd in it, but I have to keep Firefox around anyway (like Mercule, I'm a web developer), and I like IE7 better.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I've got it, and I dislike the user interface intensely. I can't see the purpose in switching round all the things that they've done (including hiding the menu by default(!)), and even after several months I find my mouse going to the wrong part of the application.

Several of our internal intranet apps break on IE7, which isn't much fun either.

It has some changes to it's CSS handling which is going to be a good thing in the long run, but as a web developer it means that we've got to include another set of tweaks (in one major website we have to load a whole different stylesheet just for IE7; I thought those days were gone! That website is built on Microsofts Sharepoint Server 2007 as well. Go figure.)

I'm still a Firefox man for my general web browsing.

Cheers

 

[Thanee]

It's good to see that Microsoft finally catches up there, after a decade or so (or when did Opera introduce all these nifty things).

Havn't tried it yet, but seeing how I totally dislike the IE 6 user interface, I doubt I will use it much.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Let's see a textbook definition of 'damning with faint praise' -- it's the best version of IE yet! Still lacks the flexibility and customizeability of Firefox or Opera, and lags behind the latter in performance as well. Not to mention it still has all the inherent issues with having your most outward-interacting application tied inextricably with your OS.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Not to mention it's buggy on the boards...

 

[babomb]

It's an improvement over IE6, but that's not saying much. I don't like some of the changes to the interface.

It does have a little better standards support than IE6, which is good for everyone in the long run. But it's not enough. Firefox and Opera are still far better. One of the problems for developers with IE7 is that MS fixed some of the bugs that people exploited to hide unsupported features from IE6, but without adding support for those features. And of course, for the time being, developers have to try to support both.

 

[Faerl'Elghinn]

So who here has downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7? It has a lot of new features including a similar feature from Firefox, Tab Browsing. Yes you heard that right, Tab Browsing is now part IE7. A redesign of the interface and favorites section as well. The other question is who will be switching over?

If only it were attractive enough to draw everyone away from the web developer's nightmare that is IE6. They finally implemented code to recognize the alpha transparency of .png images. There were ways around this problem before, but none of them were ideal, and IME, all of those that fixed the issue for IE created problems in Firefox and Netscape... Microsoft... *sigh*...

Edit: P.S.--If anyone has ever found a blanket fix for the above problem, please let me know.

 

[Ranger REG]

So who here has downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7? It has a lot of new features including a similar feature from Firefox, Tab Browsing. Yes you heard that right, Tab Browsing is now part IE7. A redesign of the interface and favorites section as well. The other question is who will be switching over?

Already did. Though the tab area is gettting to be a bit too crowded. At least I can move the tabs around in order, especially when I'm looking and posting on several forums simultaneously (in IE6 or older, multiple IE windows would have filled up the taskbar).