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#1 Cossack

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Posted 22 October 2006 - 02:20 AM

Hey guys, microsoft just released internet explorer 7, Im using it right now and its the best browser ive ever used! You guys gotta try it.

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Posted 22 October 2006 - 02:21 AM

It is quite a fine web browser (I've been using it since RC 2).
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 06:58 AM

I agree with the above, takes a little getting used to though.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 08:24 AM

Yes it appears very solid, I need a tool that transfers my Firefox settings over.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 09:00 AM

Time to start designing sites with IE7 in mind then. And leave IE6 to rot.

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#6 Athena

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Posted 22 October 2006 - 09:38 AM

I use FF and am not going to change that, but out of curiosity, what new features / fixes etc are there?

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Posted 22 October 2006 - 10:38 PM

Is it compliant with anything beyond microsofts websites yet? Like, uh... CSS1 would be good? Or 2.1 if they wanna catch up with reality. Thats right, theres more to the web than microsofts hub.

And leave IE6 to rot.

Actually people still use IE5 (source), and with the radically different layout many IE fools will probably be reluctant to make the switch.

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Posted 22 October 2006 - 11:19 PM

What can I say but: it's not really my problem? It's widely known behaviour that things get designed for the most recent tools available. As a matter of yesterday IE7 is more recent than IE6, therefore all the fools should be ready for the fact that less and less websites will now work correctly in their outdated browser.

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#9 chemical ali

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Posted 22 October 2006 - 11:27 PM

Just design all the web around Internet Explorer seeing as its what 80% of the world uses. Its easier than pissing around with designing it for firefox or opera.
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Posted 22 October 2006 - 11:49 PM

It's taking me some getting used to. I still can't figure out where the refresh button is.

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 12:37 AM

[F5] / [ctrl]+[F5] should still do it...
Yeah, I'm the one who uses keyboard shortcuts :p
@ Blodo; I guess IE users should be used to inferior service anyway ;)

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 01:00 AM

It came with ClearType (or whatever it's called) by default, which took a while to disable, and it looks bad with my windowblinds theme (part of the wallpaper shows up in a few cracks). I'll continue using FF, and if I need to, I'll use the IE Tab extension to test out sites in IE.

#13 Cossack

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 01:11 AM

It's taking me some getting used to. I still can't figure out where the refresh button is.


It's directly to the right of the adress bar.

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 03:05 AM

It came with ClearType (or whatever it's called) by default, which took a while to disable, and it looks bad with my windowblinds theme (part of the wallpaper shows up in a few cracks). I'll continue using FF, and if I need to, I'll use the IE Tab extension to test out sites in IE.


what skin you using for windowblinds? I'm using azenis 2 and I'm having no trouble, nore have I for any other skin (thats including the dodgy alienware suites) also, what version of windowblinds are you using?

@ jeeves, you moron, of course it works, :ohmy: do you think I ment a different IE7 when you asked what I was opening the TWN site with :thumbsupsmiley:

@ gaia, download and see but for thsoe too lazy, it gets rid of the menu bar (file, view, tools, etc) and gives you a tab bar, favourites and add favourites are buttons next to each other on the tab bar, it also has an address bar that includes a search box and refresh and stop buttons, on the other side of the tabs bar is another toolbar with a number of menue's that basically do everything else that the main menu used to.

as a general rule it's faster and more reliable, it comes with a phishing filter which so far hasn't done me much good or bad, and a number of other miscilanious stuff

I've been using it for ages and I can't fult it in comparasin to any other browser I've used.
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#15 Jeeves

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 05:01 AM

@ Rawlo, you moron, remember how you kept report bugs absent in all other browser? :thumbsupsmiley:
Lets not turn this into another my browser > yours thread, I just wanted to know specifically how much closer to working it was

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#16 Blodo

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 08:09 AM

Destroyer: You won't find what you don't look for. Cleartype can be disabled on the first screen when you start IE7.

Ali: I can't really design for IE alone, but when I do it for Firefox and Opera the newest versions of them don't really give any problems - so I can just say that it works in the newest versions of the most popular browsers. It's always the advantage when an employer wants a site to work in multiple browsers :thumbsupsmiley:

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