Internet Explorer 7

[Thad Enouf]

Thanks Thad, I guess I should have seen those little arrows. It seems obvious now. I'm getting old, maybe it is time to lower the resolution on the screen a notch.

No problem. For me, there's not much worse than getting a relatively new GUI on software I've come to depend on.

 

[MINI]

I love firefox. Ie 6 and 7 keep opening a bunch of blank windows and crashing me.

 

[jaerdaph]

More faint praise:

I love IE7 - it's what IE6 should have been.

My biggest criticism would be that it goes a little overboard with security out of the gate. It's also a pain in the rump having to verify that you want to insert a picture or a link on message boards like this when you use the messsage tools.

 

[drothgery]

More faint praise:

I love IE7 - it's what IE6 should have been.

Do remember that IE6 came out with Windows XP in 2002. And it was leaps and bounds better than the major competition at the time (Netscape 4.x, and the very early Mozilla-based browsers).

 

[jaerdaph]

Do remember that IE6 came out with Windows XP in 2002. And it was leaps and bounds better than the major competition at the time (Netscape 4.x, and the very early Mozilla-based browsers).

I do remember. I also remember having to download hundreds of security patches every other week since 2002. But you are correct, sir.

IE still remains my browser of choice, and I'm quite satisfied with IE7. As soon as I get some time I'll pop over to annoyances.org to see if I can turn off what I don't like about.

 

[Ranger REG]

The only problem I do have with IE 7 -- as well as IE 6 -- is that I cannot fully utilize all of the History features (mainly by Date and by Site). Any advice on how to repair it?

 

[Thanee]

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

I'm using one that was found on the net, it displays right with both IE and Firefox.

Using it in my PbP maps, like THIS one.

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// Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher.
// http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 31-May-2004

// *************************************************
// This extended version includes imagemap
// and input image functionality.
// It also requires a 1px transparent GIF
// *************************************************

var strGif = "transparentpixel.gif"
var strFilter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader"

function correctPNG() 
{
   for(var i=0; i<document.images.length; i++)
   {
	  var img = document.images[i]
	  var imgName = img.src.toUpperCase()
	  if (imgName.substring(imgName.length-3, imgName.length) == "PNG")
	  {
		 var imgID = (img.id) ? "id='" + img.id + "' " : ""
		 var imgClass = (img.className) ? "class='" + img.className + "' " : ""
		 var imgTitle = (img.title) ? "title='" + img.title + "' " : "title='" + img.alt + "' "
		 var imgStyle = "display:inline-block;" + img.style.cssText 
		 if (img.align == "left") imgStyle = "float:left;" + imgStyle
		 if (img.align == "right") imgStyle = "float:right;" + imgStyle
		 if (img.parentElement.href) imgStyle = "cursor:hand;" + imgStyle
         if (img.useMap)
		 {		  
	      	 strAddMap = "<img style=\"position:relative; left:-" + img.width + "px;"
	         + "height:" + img.height + "px;width:" + img.width +"\" "
			 + "src=\"" + strGif + "\" usemap=\"" + img.useMap 
			 + "\" border=\"" + img.border + "\">"
		 }		
		 var strNewHTML = "<span " + imgID + imgClass + imgTitle
		 + " style=\"" + "width:" + img.width + "px; height:" + img.height + "px;" + imgStyle + ";"
	     + "filter:" + strFilter
		 + "(src=\'" + img.src + "\', sizingMethod='scale');\"></span>" 
		 if (img.useMap) strNewHTML += strAddMap
		 img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
		 i = i-1
	  }
   }
   for(i=0; i < document.forms.length; i++)
   {
      findImgInputs(document.forms(i))
   }
}

function findImgInputs(oParent)
{
	var oChildren = oParent.children
    if (oChildren)
	{	
		for (var i=0; i < oChildren.length; i++ )
		{
		   var oChild = oChildren(i)
           if ((oChild.type == 'image') && (oChild.src))
		   {
		       var origSrc = oChild.src
		       oChild.src = strGif
		       oChild.style.filter = strFilter + "(src='" + origSrc + "')"
		   }
		   findImgInputs(oChild)	
	    }
	}
}
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);

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Bye
Thanee