radeonic2 said:took me 13 seconds to download
If something takes a little over 10 seconds to dl what's the big deal?volt said:compared to firefox it's huge that was me point
radeonic2 said:If something takes a little over 10 seconds to dl what's the big deal?
well I've got a 4 megabit connectionvolt said:For you? no deal
I never really liked FireFox, but IE7 and Opera both have features that I consider real progress.
Well, there are really only three options for Windows users so that's about the size of it.DemoCoder said:Progress compared to what, themselves?
I could really care less about this aspect of it. I have never encountered any problems when using IE6, it just works. I like the speed and it feels right. I don't need ten thousand options and features to use the Web. For me the usefulness of the Web is really only affected by the available bandwidth and the ease of the interface. Granted, the interface is something you learn so by simply using a product you will like it more in this regard, but I always found Firefox to be the least attractive of the three.IE is a web standards laggard. I suppose any improvement could be considered progress. Wonder how it rates on CSS2.0 compliancy now.
radeonic2 said:If something takes a little over 10 seconds to dl what's the big deal?
Dsl?Skrying said:Sure, but for me it was a 7 minute download, and that's on my broadband connection. Ahh the joys of 384/384. Not everyone has a 4 megabit connection, even though 7 minutes isnt that bad, its down right annoying since I cant even load a website during that time.
DemoCoder said:IE negatives for me (dont have IE7 yet)
ANova said:Btw, is this build stable enough to install on your primary machine or should I just wait for final?
Edit: Only installs on systems with SP2, fuck that.
Sobek said:As for SP2...disable Security Center and a few other lame servics it adds...where's the problem?
ANova said:no download manager - erm, ok but I find download managers useless and more of an annoyance
no quick access to manage privacy (clear forms, history, cookies, etc) - tools > options > delete cookies, delete files, clear history. How much easier do you want it?
Plugins for Firefox more plentiful and useful - true but IE7 has quite a few more features by default
poor web developer support - If you say so, I wasn't aware of this being an issue.
non-compliant to standards/broken rendering - Don't care, if every site displays fine I don't consider it a problem
Edit: Only installs on systems with SP2, fuck that.
radeonic2 said:Dsl?
ya low speed "broadband" sucks these days when you've got lots of people like me with multi megabit connections who don't mind big downloads
Finally fired up IE7 (rebooted) and I agree it could scare people since the UI is much different.
Interesting phishing filter.
Anybody noticed blurry nav menus?
i.e http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/aiw-x1900/index.x?pg=9
The nav menu text is blurry.. anti aliased?
both browers at 100% zoom/ medium text, infact I can't change text size with ie7.
that's stupid.volt said:That's because IE7 uses ClearType fonts (antialiased). You can disable it under internet options -> advanced. Some sites won't allow you to change font size because that's how their CSS is structured -- but it works fine here on techreport.
DemoCoder said:You'll find them less of an annoyance when IE breaks a file download and progress and you're trying to search out where the damn partially downloaded file is, due to IE's stupid default behavior "let me dowload to a temp file called QXYZ in a hidden folder and then COPY it to the final file destination at the end"
Firefox: CTRL-SHIFT-DEL or Tools -> Clear Private Data.
Like what? You just acknowledged that IE6 was massively lacking in features behind Firefox and that it mostly caught up. So what was added in IE7 that Firefox doesn't have?
You don't care, even though it is causing massive problems for web developers, leading to wasted $$$ and resources on sites, and increased bugs on websites. You don't care that Microsoft is deliberately fucking over everyone else but shipping a shoddy product, bifuricating the market. How did you feel when IHVs shipped GPUs which implemented broken features and held back progress?
Firefox doesn't care what OS or patch level you have. But then, I guess architecting a web browser so it doesn't need patches in the core of your OS doesn't count for much.