The Fat Kid At the Party – Or 24 hours with IE 7

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I’ve downloaded the Beta 2 of IE7 and I’m somewhat impressed.

After some fumbling (I had BETA 1 on my system and B2 insisted that I remove IE before continuing. Riiight. That’s like getting Catholic Church out of our bedrooms. Ba-zing!), I got it up and running. I don’t know what kind of Jedi Mind Tricks it’s using for fonts (I remember somewhere there was a make-fonts-crispy add-on a while back), but I’m suitably impressed at the clarity it brings to a page. This is pretty much the only we-didn’t-copy-Firefox feature IE has going for it.

I’m no techie, so I couldn’t tell you if it’s secure or speedier or if it will take care of your fish when you are on vacation, but I am impressed with the new stuff. The tabbed navigation, the smaller icons, calm colour scheme are all fresh. But wait. Oh yeah. Had that already on Firefox nearly a year ago. As for add-ons. ZZZZ. Hey did I show you my cool “BlackJapan” theme? It rocks!

One weird thing is the placement of the textual menu system, below the URL field as opposed to the usual top and to the left. Why do this? Just to be cool? Michael Jackson wore one glove to be different and everyone thought it was cool, for all of 6 seconds. Why change switch this around from oh… pretty much every single piece of software out there?

In all, I’m finding IE7 much like an attention starved kid at his brother’s birthday party: “Lookit me! I can do that! Lookit! LOOK IT!!!”

8 thoughts on “The Fat Kid At the Party – Or 24 hours with IE 7”

  1. Peter

    It took me a few days and I finally realized I could understand this post – well, at least the “fat kid at the party” part. 🙂

  2. Dead Robot

    All the Firefoxes (including a Mac version) are here

    Apple officially stopped supporting IE when they created Safari. It’s getting a bit rusty too.

    I’ve noticed that Safari for 10.3 isn’t as good with AJAX web pages (usually have to double click things to get their attention).

  3. Brian

    Its about time IE caught up with the rest of the browsers. Safari, Firefox, and Netscape have tapping. I use the still buggy Firefox, and I love the tabbed features.

    I don’t think they make IE for Mac anymore, is this available for both?

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