IE7 [Part 2]
Downloading IE7After some playing, we discovered that IE7 does not work on windows 2000. You can't get the menu bar (file, menu etc) to be at the top of the page. This may sound a silly point but I found it extremely annoying that the menu bar is below the navigation / address bar.
The next problem I discovered (my colleague did, too) was that it plays with your file associations. You will no longer be able to use ftp in Windows Explorer, random files are opened in IE7 instead of the normal program.
When my colleague then tried to uninstall IE7, it got even worse and he was forced to reinstall it just so he could use his machine properly!
Overall, it looks like an old version of Netscape, it just does nothing for me compared to Firefox. The tab browsing does seem very similar to Firefox, which is a good point as well as IE6 plugins working too. I expected that I would need a download a new version of my plugin's (Google and Alexa).
posted by Simon Burfield @ 2:32 pm
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Well I have to say I disagree. I downloaded IE7 last night at home and I think it looks fantastic.
It's all beautifully minimalistic and clutter free. I love how you can zoom in and out easily with the zoom function at the bottom, the single page with a thumbnail of each open tab is brilliant, and for the first time in any browser, I was able to print first time without it all spreading across multiple pages.
On that subject, why has it taken so long for browsers to sort it out? Why is it only version 7 that gives us a print preview button? I suppose that being the internet, it was thought that printing would happen less and less, when in fact the opposite is true. So much for the paperless office - but that's for another time...
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