Apr 25, 2006 | blog
Gosh!
(I Don’t know how else to express it in a family friendly way.) 🙂
They’ve polished up the rough edges from the last time I loaded the beta 2 preview! I’d loaded up the previous build awhile ago and had really enjoyed the great new features (tabs, integrated RSS, pop-up blocker, phishing filter, etc…). On the other hand, endured the performance hits of early beta and anomaly’s that come with test software.
This version however, is feature complete and performs that way as well. Check out the IE homepage to download and give it a try – IE7 beta2 is fully supported by MS at this point, and should be experienced to be believed.
Feb 27, 2006 | blog
Or something in the site code anyway. Interesting results in Internet Explorer here on RickMahn.com. When viewed with IE6, the site’s sidebar is displayed below the last post information (and to the right – that part is correct). When viewed with Firefox and IE7, the sidebar is in the correct position – so I’m not sure what is causing the issue.
Obviously I’m going to have to comb through the code for the body and sidebar sections to really understand what is happening. Strange that it renders correctly in the beta version of IE7 and not in IE6.
IE7 however has a different issue. the top banner is displayed while the page is being rendered, then it disappears when the page is just about completely loaded.
Now I can hear all the Firefox users saying “so, what’s the problem” – and I’d like to leave it at that. However, I do like to have everyting working as it should and I’ll have to admit my main browser (still) is IE, though I’ll admit to using FF on an alarmingly increasing rate.
Anyway – just wanted to let you know that I’ll be working on the sidebar issue to correct the problem. 🙂
Feb 1, 2006 | blog
Now is your chance to see what all the fuss is and will be about. Microsoft released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 on the world last night. While its not a final release product, I can tell you it is FAST, feature rich and has good support for RSS.
I’m not too delighted at the feed support as I could be – MS is only supporting RSS at this time, and if you notice on Blogger we have ATOM feeds. Doesn’t work right now. Eventually, I may be able to uninstall Pluck which I have used for over a year as my main RSS/ATOM reader. That won’t happen yet, but it could when the IE7 ships later this year – we’ll see how much better the RSS support gets. That its built in and works rather well already is very promising.
Another irritating thing I’ve noticed since installing on XP (I’ve used IE7 on antoher OS…), when trying to create this post here at Blogger using IE7, the “Compose” mode when creating a post does not display text correctly – its white on white! Using the “Edit HTML” mode DOES show the text so you can see it.
Well, its a beta release and it is impressive in the changes and features MS has brought along so far. Also impressive is MS’s interest in listening to the user community for feature and usability improvements in IE7. The laundry list from IE6 is long, and MS has worked very hard to build a modern browser.
Is it better than FireFox – probably not, especially in beta, but its a BIG step in the right direction and will continue to improve. Also, I have to admit here that I’m a dedicated IE user, so while I use FireFox (and Opera too!), IE is my main browser and will probably continue to be.
Well, more to come on this as the days roll on!
Dec 19, 2005 | blog
Microsoft has selected the icon to represent RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7. More information about this decision is available on the RSS Team Blog over at MSDN Blogs.
