January 12, 2006
Internet Explorer 7.0
I've obtained the elusive IE7.0 Beta 1. I was anxious to test it and see what it does. Working with web design and security, those were the two areas that I was mostly interested in.
First, the good news -- the security in IE appears to be excellent. Recent reports and reviews I've read indicate that it's a huge improvement, and it's supposed to be a bit better than even Firefox now.
Next, the bad news -- as of this release, there appears to be no change in browser standards. Unless they've got more tricks up their sleeves, it looks like the next version of IE will not be compliant with the official standards. That stinks.
I haven't really had time to do speed tests to see how it performs vs. Firefox. It does have the tabbed browsing everyone loves, so that's certainly a plus...
There's also a menu option for managing add-ons, so I'll be checking to see how possible it is to write add-ons (I need that spellchecker!).
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Posted by: Trench at January 12, 2006 11:59 PM (GG13q)
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I wonder how many things they stole from the other browsers besides tabbed browsing and add-ons?
Posted by: Arbitratorofall at January 13, 2006 01:15 AM (5+Jvh)
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I forget about Opera sometimes. I used to use it a lot...
And AbitratorofAll -- I'm sure they stole everything that everyone likes. Nothing wrong with that, if you ask me. I just don't know why they wouldn't steal useful stuff (other than they want everyone else to do things THEIR way).
Posted by: Ogre at January 13, 2006 11:01 AM (+Gl1m)
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They'll have to do some major improvements to pull me away from Opera. Even with all of the addons I've put in Firefox, it still doesn't come up to the feature-set I've come to appreciate as a regular Opera user.
I constantly make use of several great Opera features, such as:
The best tabbed browsing I've used
Easily toggled and configurable auto-reload
Excellent form-filling features with the wand and personal info.
Quick toggling of image-loading on a page-by-page basis
Zoom in and out with + and - keys
Excellent keystroke-based navigation and tab management
Two of the neatest features I use are more complex. For instance, when I'm reading a blog, I hit space-bar to page down. When I get to the bottom of the page, and hit space, Opera will load the next page of older articles. That's reall cool.
Also, if I load a directory of images, and click on the first image, that image will load. To view the second image, I would normally have to click "back" and then click the next image in the list. In Opera, I just hit space.
Yep, IE7 might be better, but I doubt I'll make the switch for primary use.
Posted by: Lockjaw the Ogre at January 13, 2006 01:37 PM (mAhn3)
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I'm going to have to play with some of those features -- I wasn't aware of all of them. Of course, IE could include them and it might take years to find them...
Posted by: Ogre at January 13, 2006 02:01 PM (/k+l4)
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