Comments on: You will take this IE7 and you will like it!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:30:22 +0000

And why the hell is the addess bar on the very top, with the menu bar bellow it in IE7? and the addess bar being the only bar that has no way of being moved? I will have no problem with IE7 if it wasn’t for that.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:27:15 +0000

About sites not working on IE7 or Firefox, but no problem with IE6:

maybe the site is coded to not work on anything except IE, but that code does not recognize IE7 as being an IE. I dont know, it could be the problem.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:28:47 +0000

what would you download your browser with? or do you want to go to the store and buy a disc?

By: Thomas J. Brown

Thomas J. Brown — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:36:08 +0000

Actually, I have no doubt it would be wildly popular… Among geeks and nerds. Real people would probably never see it.

Then again, if the right geeks and nerds see it (such as the ones at MS), perhaps something could get done.

You would just have to be careful to point out that the purpose is not to lambaste IE, but to show MS that enough people care about the product and actually want them to do something about it.

By: chad

chad — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:35:22 +0000

I was debating buying a domain something like

MStakebackyourIE

and having a wiki like section that people could come in and report bugs and bad features, inconsistant javascript and CSS stuff… hopefulyl getting quite a collection of dirt on the browser and with a lot of wishful thinking make IE recall the damn release once the site starts to get attention and people start to realize how bad the browser is…

of course its all wishful thinking and would never work (or would it) … but a boy can dream can’t he!

By: chakrit

chakrit — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:24:47 +0000

I’ve been wondering for a long time …. why MS won’t fix all the w3c problems with IE6 via their automatic updates system. And instead they built IE7 which from my own beta exp. and above comments stated, still has a lot of things that need fixing.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:26:52 +0000

Hey. I picked up my MacBook at the Mac Store!

By: Thomas J. Brown

Thomas J. Brown — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:53:59 +0000

I just wish there were something we could do educate people. I have a friend who works at the Mac Store (not to be confused with the Apple Store) in Seattle who says that, usually once or twice a day, he talks to someone who honestly believes that the only way to access the internet is to use IE.

I suppose from a marketing standpoint, you have to give MS props for what they accomplished. Over 85% of the users of the site that I develop at work are IE users. I even know other web designers who know full well that IE is bollocks, but continue to use it anyway (why they do it baffles me).

It’s kind of like the person who always gets what they want. Once they have it, they’re happy for a short while, but soon they don’t really care about it anymore. MS has done the same thing with IE. I mean, hell, how long has it been since v6 came out? It’s just been festering away for years. All of the “alternative browsers” are putting IE to shame and all MS can do is release what amounts to v6 with a facelift and tabs.

Bah, I’m ranting again.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:50:17 +0000

Seriously. Looking at my own site which loads as it should in Safari, Firefox, and IE6… Why the hell is it off in IE7? Did MS invent some new hack requirement to get things to work as they should?

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:22:09 +0000

Same thing here…Ive been using the BETA on my development machine for awhile now and Im not impressed. There is really nothing in the release that Ive liked all that much, except for the novelty of the tabbed browsing view that shows mini-views of all your open tabs. Other than that its pretty boring, and some things (like the new bookmark navigation and toolbar design) are actually worse than IE6. I can already tell Im going to be troubleshooting JS errors for the next 18 months!