[QUOTE=Askance]
What version do you have? I had this problem with one a few months ago (I’m on Linux) but it was fixed in the very next update.
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Ummm… looks like it’s 1.5.0.7. Like I said, it can hang out on my computer for the sites that IE7 chokes on, but it’s taking a back seat at the moment.
[QUOTE=Dead Badger]
It makes a pre-defined movement of the mouse into an interface command. For example, in Opera I don’t have to click on a small button up in the top right corner to close a tab - I just hold the right mouse button, make a swishing motion down and right, and the tab closes. Up-down to refresh, up to stop, left and right are forwards and backwards respectively. The right-click means you can’t do them accidentally. There are more, but those are the main ones, and those alone mean that my browser interface looks like this (spot the buttons).
As I say, the only problem is that they get so addictive that you start trying them in other programs. But now you can do that too. 
Hmm, I sound a little bit like the dribbly evangelist guy on Oxford Circus. Ah well.
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Yep, mouse gestures are the greatest invention in the history of computer interfaces. I, too, used to get frustrated when I tried to use them in other programs. As far as I’m concerned, they should be a built-in option in the OS itself. The link from below (many, many thanks Dead Badger) has greatly changed the way I use my computer.
[QUOTE=Dead Badger]
Nope, but (and prepare to love me) have you heard of this? Oh yes, mouse gestures in any windows app. And you can disable it on a per-application basis (or do finer customisation) so it won’t interfere with Opera or FF mouse gestures. The only problem is that I miss it enormously when using a computer without it.
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I don’t think I have ever opened a web page and then cursed Microsoft for not properly implementing CSS in their browser. Can somebody tell me what CSS is and why I shoudl be pissed at MS’s shortcoming in this regard?
Okay, I kinda like IE7’s back and forward buttons – they kinda look like boobs – but for the love of Pete, can someone tell me how to get them UNDER the menu toolbar? :mad:
[QUOTE=Gozu Tashoya]
Okay, I kinda like IE7’s back and forward buttons – they kinda look like boobs – but for the love of Pete, can someone tell me how to get them UNDER the menu toolbar? :mad:
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This is what I was asking earlier - why in the haemorrhaging fuck have they decided to go against the convention of every single Windows app to date and misplace the menu bar? What possible reason could they have for this? In most of the screenshots I can find the menu bar simply doesn’t appear (because, obviously, all the functionality is accessible through the three squillion lovingly-shaded buttons cluttering the UI), but that’s hardly a solution.
Ah; this page suggests you should choose the “Classic Menu” option. Does that work? (I’ve not installed IE7 yet…)
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture]
I don’t think I have ever opened a web page and then cursed Microsoft for not properly implementing CSS in their browser. Can somebody tell me what CSS is and why I shoudl be pissed at MS’s shortcoming in this regard?
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It’s more of a developer thing. If you don’t program web pages, it’s not something you’d worry about. On the developer side, it just really adds length to the programming/compatibility checking process. You sometimes wind up having to do clumsy labyrinthine workarounds to stuff you should’ve been able to do on all browsers several years ago.
[QUOTE=slortar]
It’s more of a developer thing. If you don’t program web pages, it’s not something you’d worry about. On the developer side, it just really adds length to the programming/compatibility checking process. You sometimes wind up having to do clumsy labyrinthine workarounds to stuff you should’ve been able to do on all browsers several years ago.
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What it also means, for the user, is that people who do choose to use Firefox or other compatible browsers sometimes find themselves at websites that don’t display properly.
Admittedly, this can happen to IE users as well.
The difference is, when IE doesn’t display properly it’s generally because the stupid browser won’t follow the proper standards. When Firefox doesn’t display properly, it’s generally because the website is set up primarily for IE users, and has failed to follow proper standards.
[QUOTE=Dead Badger]
This is what I was asking earlier - why in the haemorrhaging fuck have they decided to go against the convention of every single Windows app to date and misplace the menu bar? What possible reason could they have for this? In most of the screenshots I can find the menu bar simply doesn’t appear (because, obviously, all the functionality is accessible through the three squillion lovingly-shaded buttons cluttering the UI), but that’s hardly a solution.
Ah; this page suggests you should choose the “Classic Menu” option. Does that work? (I’ve not installed IE7 yet…)
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Actually, despite the wonderfully boob-like buttons, the fact that I could figure out a way to have IE6 and IE7 coexist meant that I had to uninstall IE7. So, for better or for worse, I couldn’t try out the fix. Frankly, I say good riddance to the whole thing. 
Heh, even Cnet doesn’t like IE 7. They recommend sticking with Firefox.
Microsoft interfaces have sucked ass since the beginning of time. Vista seems to be no better than its predecessors. In fact, it might be worse in some ways since too much bling and business is probably more of a pain than a lack of polish and utilitarian design. I’ve seen several sets of screenshots from Vista that looked like a horror show for interface designers.
[QUOTE=Sleel]
Heh, even Cnet doesn’t like IE 7. They recommend sticking with Firefox.
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Yeah? Well I just installed Firefox 2.0, and I don’t like the way it handles the reply features on this board. Under IE6, to make a text string into a link, all I had to do was highlight the string and click on the “Insert Hyperlink” icon, and the highlighted text appeared in the first dialog box. Not so with Firefox 2.0; even if the text is highlighted, you have to type it into the dialog box again. And the text wrap in the reply box sucks; if you paste in a long url, you now have to use a scroll bar to look at the whole post.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
That one annoys me on a daily basis; sometimes several times a day. Part of my job is IT support and I will often have to talk people through copying or moving files about on their system. I tell them to open Windows Explorer (“Open Windows Explorer,” I say, “Just hold down the Windows key and press E”). I then instruct them to expand one of the items in the left hand pane of the Windows Explorer window, and it all goes quiet. After a few seconds, I say “When I told you top open Windows Explorer, you double-clicked on ‘My Computer’, didn’t you?”, and the answer is always yes.
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If you said Hold down the Windows key and press E, this will open Windows explorer
You will both educate them and save you the time when they go the long way around.
[QUOTE=Rick]
If you said Hold down the Windows key and press E, this will open Windows explorer
You will both educate them and save you the time when they go the long way around.
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“Hold down the Windows key and…the Windows key…bottom left…near the space bar…has the Windows logo on it…no, not Ctrl…nor Alt…and at the same time press E…no, don’t hold E…yes, you’ll need to let go of the Windows key…after pressing E…”
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
“Hold down the Windows key and…the Windows key…bottom left…near the space bar…has the Windows logo on it…no, not Ctrl…nor Alt…and at the same time press E…no, don’t hold E…yes, you’ll need to let go of the Windows key…after pressing E…”
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Too many phone calls have sound this way for me. 
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Too many phone calls have sound this way for me.
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Same here, but it’s always my mother on the line. It’s often quicker to drive there and deal with it myself.