Look at that crap. It’s just a random scattering of meaningless icons. It reminds me of shitty mid-90’s shareware. “Clean, sleek and streamlined” my ass, it looks like a mockup a seventh-grader put together in Microsoft Paint. A sadistic seventh grader. What the hell happened to the menu bar?
I’ve tempered my dislike for Microsoft products in recent years, but this just terrible. What the hell is going on in Redmond?
I’ve seen the light and am primarily using Apple products now, but come on guys, don’t give up this easily…
Well as you say that looks simply awful. And I can’t help but notice that every single sodding “feature” they tout there is not theirs, unsurprisingly without a skerrick of acknowledgement. It’s like Firefox off steroids.
I like it. I won’t move back from Firefox but it’s certainly a strong improvement, and it does have a number of display features that I actually use on an occasional basis that Firefox simply doesn’t have.
I guess we’ve proved some 8th law of the Straight Dope or something: Dopers will hate on a Microsoft product for no good reason.
I think there may be sufficient genuine reason to hate it, and given that the OP’s expressed objections are chiefly aesthetic, I think he/she is more or less on the money.
For example: The VCR-style back/forward buttons? Maybe even a great idea, but why use a completely different visual style for these and, say, the stop and refresh buttons? It’s visually jarring.
For another example: the ‘favorites’ and ‘add to favorites’ buttons - what the bleeding heck do they align with? They are not horizontally aligned with the back/forward buttons directly above them; they are not vertically aligned with either the tops or bottoms of selected or unselected tabs. WTF?
I agree; it looks like it was slapped together by a one-horse shareware outfit.
I just got a new computer back in August this year. It came with the latest versions of AOL and something called AOL Internet, which is a browser. That browser doesn’t seem all t hat different to me than what IE 7 is purported to be. Oddly enough, the computer also came with IE 6.
It’s crap, and not just knee-jerk (basing my opinion on the beta so do correct me if any of these are now fixed, but I’m damned if I’m going to install the release version).
Each tab contains its own menu layout specifications, so if there’s been any alteration, the browser jumps around like a frog on meth when changing tabs.
Forms still clear data when hitting the back button.
There are no undo levels within form or textarea completion.
Selecting in the text bar still selects the entire URL, meaning typos are extremely difficult to fix.
I went through the tour then clicked “Download Internet Explorer 7” and nothing happened. I looked at the Status bar at the bottom left and saw “Error On Page” Ha!
At some point, when they let me, I will download it. I hate Firefox and this might have some features I can use. I don’t care about the interface because I’m going to change it all anyway. If it weren’t customizable, then I’d bitch. Right now I have everything I need on 2 lines. First line: File Edit View Favorites Tools Help and the Address bar, Second line: Back Forward Stop Refresh Home and my favorite Links. Plus I have the look set to Classic Windows, not the ugly pastel cartoon-balloonish whateveryoucallit interface of XP.
I’d just be happy if they finally implemented CSS properly. Still not going to use it, though, unless it somehow manages to be better than Firefox despite the god-awful interface.
I’ve never tried it, but is it still fair to say that IE does nothing other free browsers don’t do, other than work with webpages put together with Microsofts shitty authoring tools?
As far as I can see, that is their one and only USP, as it has been for a while now.
Can someone please explain to me why tab browsing is so exciting? I have been using Netscape and/or IE forever with multiple windows and using the wonderful built in since windows 3.0 feature of Alt-Tab to change windows. What is so spectacular about tab browsing?
As far as the interface and the new IE 7.0 features: I have to download it sometime in the next week to determine if it will corrupt anything in our work environment. I already dislike the new ribbon style feature, this is my major complaint with Office 2007 also. I do like the improved context sensitive right click menu.
Can’t speak for others, but for me one big draw is the lack of clutter on my taskbar. I often have multiple windows open and tabbed browsing keeps me from having a stack of browser windows on my taskbar (I really, really hate it when all my windows for one program turns into “4 IE windows” or somesuch).
It’s one of those things that doesn’t seem so great until you try it. It doesn’t seem that great on paper, but once I tried it I loved it. It’s not even so much an ‘I like it because…’ thing, I just really like it.
I always have multiple browser pages/windows open too, and I have enough other programs open so that they all meld into one. When I used Firefox and had multiple tabs going, if Firefox crashed (which it did, often) the whole thing would freeze and I wouldn’t be able to tell which pages I’d had opened in it. If IE crashes (which it does, often) I can at least mouseover the taskbar and it will pop up the menu that shows me which pages I had open. IE wins for me just because of that.
I think there’s a plugin for Firefox that will automatically reload the last open set of tabs on restarts. Opera has that behaviour built-in from the beginning, although it asks for confirmation if it detects a crash, in case buggy code on one of the open tabs was what cause it in the first place. It doesn’t crash as much as IE, either, and is now free.
Does IE7 still have the ludicrous situation where the navigation buttons came above the menu buttons, contrary to every single other Windows app in existence? Or did they change that?
IE never had that unless you rearranged your toolbars. By Default you get Menu Bar, Nav Bar and Address Bar and the very useful Links bar hiding off to the right hand side.
I’ve been using IE7 for a while. I have no complaints, but I also attribute that to using a couple good spyware and adware blocker programs. I see virtually no ads, and it crashes on me about as often as Netscape and Firefox have.
