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- era4O4
Do you use it? Do you like it? Do you recommend keeping IE7 until more users/clients switch to 8?
- nocomply0
haven't used it.
probably won't like it.
plan on keeping and testing in IE7 until i see more real people (not just developers) upgrade to 8.
- trooperbill0
still sucks, gonna stick with ff3.5beta for now
- mikotondria30
I got hold of it about 10 minutes after the 'official' launch, dutifully extracted the installer - actually closed other applications and saved my data, it imported my bookmarks, and went ahead and installed itself, for some reason requiring a total restart of my system.
It opened back up, and in the 10 minutes it sat there whilst I was on the phone it managed to crash and need restarting. Yes, I did want to let Microsoft know about the problem.
I played with it and it seemed fine enough, though on XP here I didn't like the screen-font smoothing which I always think looks like someones put a lace net over the screen. I just like pixellated fonts I guess. It just looks like ie tho :/ give me some skins !
- ETM0
The restart is no mystery. IE is integrated into the whole OS, File browsing etc.
- stewdio0
If you've coded for the web you understand how painful it is support the many heads of IE. If you've worked in a conservative office you know that sometimes workers don't have the necessary access to download and install a replacement browser. If you've used Windows for a while you know how vulnerable it is to viruses.
Wouldn't it be an interesting thing if people wrote viruses for Windows boxes that left IE untouched (so no actual damage) but downloaded and installed FireFox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc. and set one of them as the default browser. Wouldn't that be lovely? Imagine waking up to the headline "Millions of infected [improved] PCs."
Imagine a world where browser competition didn't include IE, whose market share is correlated to its install-base and not performance. Instead we'd be left with WebKit, Mozilla, and Opera; organizations that are actually committed to making the web better because their market share depends on it.
- juhls0
Government still primarily uses IE6, so who knows when we will even get to IE7. As it stands now, most of our web sites do not work nicely on Firefox.
- era4O40
Thanks, I feel like the consensus is to hold off for a while. I appreciate your help.
- zarkonite0
as it stands, IE8 passes the Acid2 test (http://www.webstandards.org/200... and MS claims it passes the most W3 tests (out of 7200 tests it apparently comes ahead), it's also the fastest at loading the most used sites on the web (http://www.microsoft.com/downlo... and finnally, there's a "compatibility" button that lets you view sites with IE7 rendering...
I personally like the accelerators, you can right-click an adress on a web page and ask to google map it instamagically...
- zarkonite0
and there's a new Expression Studio tool to let you preview all the IE's at once called SuperPreview...
- monNom0
another browser to support, hurrah!
here is my gift to you all:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />