Wednesday, February 01, 2006
IE 7.0, Beta 2 Preview
Yesterday I installed the IE 7.0, Beta 2 Preview on my primary development machine. I am writting this from IE 6.0 on a Virtual PC. Why? A bug in IE 7.0 doesn't render the text in the editor control used by Blogger. It's not that the text is white...it isn't rendered at all.
But there is a second, bigger problem with the IE 7.0 install....and something that I've complained about for many years....something that has occurred with every IE upgrade and Service Pack since at least IE 4.0. I spend time to arrange the buttons on the Links toolbar exactly how I want them and to remove superfluous buttons like "Customize". The IE install has always reordered these buttons alphabetically and added back the "Customize" and other buttons that I've deleted.
Additionally, IE 7.0 came up and told me there was a problem with my security settings and wouldn't automatically load my home page. I had options to have IE fix the security settings, change them manually, or ignore the warning this one time. Hmmm..not very good options as I was never told what, exactly, was the problem...only that there was one.
My Microsoft finger print reader doesn't seem to work quite as well. I have to touch the reader more than once to get it to work and the icon that normally appears in the title bar next to the minimize button also appears at the top of rendered page.
IE 7.0 seems to render pages faster. I've never liked tab browsing, but am giving it a try. I may yet turn it off. There are more security settings and an anti-phishing tool, but I'm not sure that's working. I got a message on one page that it wasn't turned on, but going into Options showed that it was.
My grade on IE 7.0 at this point is a C. Hopefully that will change as the IE team continues their work.
But there is a second, bigger problem with the IE 7.0 install....and something that I've complained about for many years....something that has occurred with every IE upgrade and Service Pack since at least IE 4.0. I spend time to arrange the buttons on the Links toolbar exactly how I want them and to remove superfluous buttons like "Customize". The IE install has always reordered these buttons alphabetically and added back the "Customize" and other buttons that I've deleted.
Additionally, IE 7.0 came up and told me there was a problem with my security settings and wouldn't automatically load my home page. I had options to have IE fix the security settings, change them manually, or ignore the warning this one time. Hmmm..not very good options as I was never told what, exactly, was the problem...only that there was one.
My Microsoft finger print reader doesn't seem to work quite as well. I have to touch the reader more than once to get it to work and the icon that normally appears in the title bar next to the minimize button also appears at the top of rendered page.
IE 7.0 seems to render pages faster. I've never liked tab browsing, but am giving it a try. I may yet turn it off. There are more security settings and an anti-phishing tool, but I'm not sure that's working. I got a message on one page that it wasn't turned on, but going into Options showed that it was.
My grade on IE 7.0 at this point is a C. Hopefully that will change as the IE team continues their work.
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 10:30:00 AM 
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