Comments on: Is it a bird? Is it a Plane? It’s IE7

By: John Evans

John Evans — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:28:48 +0000

Thanks for that, Ian. Some reassurance needed for many, I think.

By: I.A.M.

I.A.M. — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:43:34 +0000

I’ve been using Firefox since before it was in official release and regularly use IE for confirming ‘prettiness’ of layout and so on. Firefox as default works for most IBM/Windows units, and I can’t reccommend anything but, frankly.

I ran across a reccomendation on a WordPress entry about IE7 compatability; thought to myself ‘well, yeah, that’s a good point, oughta check that, shouldn’t I?’; downloaded the IE7 release candidate; installed; re-started; works a treat and looks like Firefox with a few extensions pre-installed and a simple, glass-based theme as default.

Application Compatibility Toolkit? Developer Center? Information Index? I don’t play those games, doubt that Joe Average does either, and merrily trundle onwards.

By: John Evans

John Evans — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:36:07 +0000

One vote in favour, Charles. They’re going to need more than that.

By: cHARLES

cHARLES — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:02:09 +0000

I use it and love it! I think your hype and “imagination” is worse than Microsoft’s.

By: John Evans

John Evans — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:36:55 +0000

I downloaded an earlier version, which overwrote IE6. Lots of stuff didn’t work with it, so I had to wipe it off the system and download IE6 all over again. I am very, very wary of this piece of software.

I’m going to switch to Firefox as my default browser before it arrives and see how it works then. More importantly, I’m worried about our websites. They could be compromised if things don’t work with IE7. Niall Kennedy is recommending all manner of intricate steps to take.

A plague on Microsoft for this clunky stuff.