Microsoft has just realeased it's IE7 beta 2, and much as I hate to say it, it seems kinda funky. It's got tabbed browsing support (although it's crap like Firefox in that I've not found a way of making the tabs windows within the main one (MDI style)).
The RSS reading feature is nice and sleek. And to be honsest it looks in general - the font rendering is brilliant!
My blog looks great in it... although it seems to think the post on the Royal Mail being Poo is a phishing site... hmmm... there's a button to click to tell Microsoft that it isn't though, with is nice.
It also thinks that I need to download the "QuickTimeCheck Scriptable Object" to view my blog to it's full potential - which I'm not terribly convinced about! I might have a look into that... :-/
Another feature I think could be useful is a nice tool called Quick Tabs, which allows you to view all the opened tabs at once as little thumbnails - handy if you've a lot of tabs open on a subject but you can't remember what the title of the page was you wanted to look at.
It's apparantly got transparent PNG support as well - although I haven't gone on a mission to find a site which uses them to check it out fully.
All in all a big improvement over IE6. Go and check it out for yourself if you like - over at Microsoft's site.
Ah ha... I've found why it wants to install the QuickTimeCheck Scriptable Object, it's all my webstats programs fault as it gives me stats on how many people who visit have QuickTime playing capabilities.
Posted by: Ed on February 1, 2006 6:15 PMOoh look, an inbuilt Google search thingy... like I've used in Opera for years.
Tabs!... but in a somewhat broken way, not like the ones I've used in Opera for years.
Transparent PNG's! Maybe in a few years I'll actually be able to start using them on websites... did I mention Opera's been able to do them for years?
It's certainly an improvement on IE6, and long overdue, but the only reason I use IE anymore is to get to sites which don't render properly in other browsers.
Posted by: Joe on February 1, 2006 6:27 PMGoogle Adsense has just started causing the scriptable popup on my pages as of yesterday, Aug 14th. Faaaaaaak.
Oh and Joe, all you Microsoft haters are whiny little biaaatches. "ooooooooh, I've been doing this for years with Opera".....
Great! Good for you! You're a stud! Rockstar! Do you sit at home and say "I'm so smart cause I use Opera". Do you wear Opera t-shirts. We all wish we could be as smart as Joe. Joe is the man! Fantastic job Joe.
Posted by: Jonny on August 15, 2006 10:19 PMCheers for getting to the bottom of the QuickTimeCheck Scriptable Object thingy!
Posted by: Jonty on August 15, 2006 10:56 PMCan you help me? I am always getting the message in IE7 that says:
"This website wants to run the following add-on: 'QuickTimeChheck Scriptable Object' from 'Apple Computer, Inc.' If you trust the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here..."
What should I do? Should I click on the bar and let it run or not? Is it spyware?
In IE7 as in IE6 I am having problems with the window maximizing at 100% and constantly have to drag it to fully open, because when I pull down the slide bar, it always gets smaller if I don't drag it down perfectly.
How can I maximize windows at all times?
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Thanks.
Posted by: Tom on December 2, 2006 10:08 AM