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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-saturday-is-all-booked-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a review of the latest Beta release for Internet Explorer 7 on Paul Thurrott's SuperSite. From the article: "While it's not enough to make me switch from Firefox yet--I still love certain Firefox features such as inline search--it's no longer an object of ridicule either. IE 7.0 Beta 3 includes huge functional and security advantages of IE 6 and is an absolute no brainer for anyone choosing to stick with IE. If you are an IE user, head over to the Microsoft Web site and pick up IE 7.0 Beta 3 today." ZDNet has some first impressions of the release as well.

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  1. Thank God Bill is Gone by fm6 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    One of the dropped features was the Read Mail toolbar button, but it turns out that many very vocal people actually use this feature. (Indeed, I'd gotten several queries about it myself.) So based on user feedback, the Read Mail toolbar button is back (well, it's a Command Bar button now), though it's not on by default: To enable it, you need to summon the Customize Toolbar dialog (which, again, is misnamed)...
    In this one passage, I count three different ways that MS does things that are totally stupid. It overreacts to surveys and focus groups, making major changes in response to trivial complaints. It disables features that "nobody uses", instead of just making them optional. (Remember the way MDI went away with one version of Word, then came back as an optional feature in the next one?) And it has complex, inconsistent, and worst of all multiple competing models of GUI design!
  2. Re:It breaks the new slashdot layout by icepick72 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The term "beta" means the product is not yet in release mode -- or not yet complete. So it's not even a point worth complaining about ... yet ;)
    If the product goes into release mode, and the problem still exists, then your point would be valid.
    To see what beta means, see Google definitions of beta at Google that relate to software development.
    Once you understand beta, you will understand why your post is jumping the gun.

  3. No change there then by Tim+Ward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slashdot doesn't render properly in IE6 either. (Well, it does sometimes, must depend on the weather or whether there's an R in the hour or something.)

    I have always assumed that breaking IE was a deliberate feature of the slashdot site, done on purpose to wind up IE users.

    Other web sites, whose authors are trying to attract visitors not all of whom are religious Microsoft haters, have a different attitude towards getting their sites to work with IE.