What do you think of IE7.0?

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

Originally Posted by homealone

no, I stopped using it

Doesnt your replacement just allow them to install?

[Strzelecki]

From a design point of view it's just as much of a pain to write CSS for as IE 5 and 6 were. There are still problems aligning simple things that Opera, Safari and firefox render quite happily. The only good thing is better support for the :hover psuedo class.
Oh and you don't have to 'validate' Firefox to install it do you, because they want you to use their browser.
Bodging FTP access onto IE7 ('open in explorer') is a bit pointless too.

[SnoopZ]

Opera all the way for me apart from the odd page that wont work. I find Firefox far to slow at rendering for me to change to it.

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

Doesnt your replacement just allow them to install?

probably, it is Firefox, btw Gary

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

Doesnt your replacement just allow them to install?

From mozilla plugins info:

Can I use ActiveX controls?

Yes, however, this is not advised.
There is an ActiveX plugin available for Mozilla. However, installing it can cause many problems, including crashes and conflicts with installed plugins. It is generally recommended that you do not install this plugin, unless you are specifically instructed to do so or are using it to solve a specific problem (and configuring it accordingly). If you install it and have problems, the only support you will usually get is "Uninstall the ActiveX plugin". You have been warned.

That's only for 1.5 & below, then it's pre-configured only to work with WMP. FF 2 doesn't have any facility to run ActiveX controls AFAIK...

[Tezcatlipoca]

It's not bad, certainly better than IE6 IMO.

Still prefer Firefox 2 though.


Also, is there any way to get IE7 to do RSS feeds like FF does with its "Live Bookmarks"...or is it just me being thick? I like how FF lets you see e.g. "Latest BBC Headlines", with a nice little link for each story, whereas IE7 seems to just have one link for the RSS feed, which opens one page with all the links.

[Nikesh]

I think it's better than IE6 but I still don't use it, much prefer Firefox.

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by Matt D

It's not bad, certainly better than IE6 IMO.

Still prefer Firefox 2 though.


Also, is there any way to get IE7 to do RSS feeds like FF does with its "Live Bookmarks"...or is it just me being thick? I like how FF lets you see e.g. "Latest BBC Headlines", with a nice little link for each story, whereas IE7 seems to just have one link for the RSS feed, which opens one page with all the links.

Currently no but it would be a more useful way of showing feeds. You could try Feeds Plus but to be honest they need to make improvements to the RSS reader in IE7 to keep up with the way people want to view things.

[nicke261192]

I have genuine vista ultimate clean install and i find that sometimes internet explorer freezes then wont work even when i reboot. then magically it starts working. i started using firefox now. i even reinstalled vista but it still keeps happening

[themelon]

Im still running IE6 at the moment looking for a decent alternative, IE7 is awful, removed it after it accidentally automatically updated.

[SnoopZ]

IE7 is way better than IE6 in my opinion.

[jkat]

its ok but not much different from ie6, just a wee bit better lol

[AntiSilence]

When I tried IE7 in Vista Beta 2, the first thing I noticed was that the menu bar was below the navigation icons. Personally, I hate that. I know you can probably move it all about, but it's just something I don't like.

[c1rcle]

What's IE7? hehehe actually I do use it for windows update & for those odd occasions when Firefox isn't supported by a web page, but those are so infrequent that I could probably get away with uninstalling it & not notice the difference.

[Ramrod]

At least there is a 64bit IE7. Deerpark is truly pants!