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stevebubs - 21/3/06 at 05:43 PM

Has anyone downloaded and installed IE7 beta yet?

I did so this afternoon.

Quite different, and the font rendering is much better. Ironically now just about on a par with the Acorn machines I used at school 15+ years ago....

olv - 21/3/06 at 06:22 PM

Opera and Firefox are still much better browsers imo and have been implementing some of IE7s 'new' features for years.

britishtrident - 21/3/06 at 06:35 PM

MS beta software don't be silly wait until it is released then wait 5 years until most of the major security loop holes are plugged.

stevec - 21/3/06 at 07:21 PM

Firefox is supposed to be more secure than Internet Exploder aswell.

donut - 21/3/06 at 08:21 PM

Or you could just dump microsoft altogether and go MAC!!

stevebubs - 21/3/06 at 08:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by stevec
Firefox is supposed to be more secure than Internet Exploder aswell.


Agreed - it's still not a patch on firefox.

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greggors84 - 29/3/06 at 06:53 PM

Problem i find with firefox is some sites dont work with it. Not sure if they have been designed using microsoft software or something.

millenniumtree - 29/3/06 at 08:05 PM

As a software developer / web designer, that's EXACTLY what the problem is.

It's short-sighted web developers who assume everyone uses IE, and only test on IE that cause all the problems.

I write everything so it's at least usable on 3 browsers:
IE 6 (5.5 if I can find a copy of it somewhere), Mozilla Firefox, and Lynx (command-line browser lots of blind folks use)

I don't have a mac, only Windows and Linux, so I can't test safari, but if I hear of any problems from safari users, I put them right immediately. I can't stand when people code for IE and don't care about the 20% of users that don't use it.