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Old 01-31-2006, 02:36 PM   #21
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Both, but I use Firefox.
 
Old 01-31-2006, 07:23 PM   #22
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More importantly, IE7 will actually support alpha channels in PNG images. That, in my view, has been the most soul-crushingly awful lack in IE6 to date.
Thank goodness! That has been irking me for years. Of course, there are ways to hack in alpha support, but I always felt Microsoft should be adding it natively.

And supposedly they've also fixed all of these things:
  • Peekaboo bug
  • Guillotine bug
  • Duplicate Character bug
  • Border Chaos
  • No Scroll bug
  • 3 Pixel Text Jog
  • Magic Creeping Text bug
  • Bottom Margin bug on Hover
  • Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
  • IE/Win Line-height bug
  • Double Float Margin Bug
  • Quirky Percentages in IE
  • Duplicate indent
  • Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
  • 1 px border style
  • Disappearing List-background
  • Fix width:auto

For those who don't know what any of that stuff is, consider yourselves fortunate!

I really can't believe they let this stuff go for so long, not to mention the lack of some important CSS2/2.1 support, so I'm very glad the success of Firefox scared the pants off the folks at MS and got them moving again. Much as I admire and applaud Gate's philanthropy, there's something to be said for taking care of your customers, too, especially when your company's very successful browser shapes (or limits) what's done on the worldwide web.

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Old 01-31-2006, 08:08 PM   #23
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IE. Because it's already on my computer.
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Old 01-31-2006, 10:12 PM   #24
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More like "whured" amiryte?
 
Old 01-31-2006, 10:25 PM   #25
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Thank goodness! That has been irking me for years. Of course, there are ways to hack in alpha support, but I always felt Microsoft should be adding it natively.

And supposedly they've also fixed all of these things:
  • Peekaboo bug
  • Guillotine bug
  • Duplicate Character bug
  • Border Chaos
  • No Scroll bug
  • 3 Pixel Text Jog
  • Magic Creeping Text bug
  • Bottom Margin bug on Hover
  • Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
  • IE/Win Line-height bug
  • Double Float Margin Bug
  • Quirky Percentages in IE
  • Duplicate indent
  • Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
  • 1 px border style
  • Disappearing List-background
  • Fix width:auto

For those who don't know what any of that stuff is, consider yourselves fortunate!

I really can't believe they let this stuff go for so long, not to mention the lack of some important CSS2/2.1 support, so I'm very glad the success of Firefox scared the pants off the folks at MS and got them moving again. Much as I admire and applaud Gate's philanthropy, there's something to be said for taking care of your customers, too, especially when your company's very successful browser shapes (or limits) what's done on the worldwide web.
That's the beauty of competition. If it wasn't for Firefox, they would have most probably kept IE on the shelf.
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Old 01-31-2006, 10:50 PM   #26
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IE, with sheer, brute massiveness. You know. Like a Sumo ringer. Not sure if FireFox can beat the sheer massiveness.

Quite yet, anyway.

I would kill for more time to respond to this thread for more match-type comments, but sadly, I hope these few lines get the humour intended across.
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That's the beauty of competition. If it wasn't for Firefox, they would have most probably kept IE on the shelf.
No doubt. I remember there was a Microsoft memo leaked some years ago, not that long after 6 came out. Can't remember the exact wording, but it was something to the effect of "Well, now we can take a break on IE for a while with Netscape out of the picture." It turned out to be quite a long while, didn't it... coming up on four and a half years with no new features or bug fixes (except for those which affected security or system stabilty).

It'll be good to have IE fighting to hold on to its dominance. Personally, I like IE a lot and would love to see it become something I'd find more useful. Until then, it's Opera for most of my browsing, Firefox for some of it, and IE for a little.
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I installed Internet Explorer 7 public Beta 2 yesterday. Works like a charm, so far.

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It'll be good to have IE fighting to hold on to its dominance. Personally, I like IE a lot and would love to see it become something I'd find more useful.
That is an awesome way to look at things.

That's all I wanted to say. Carry on.
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More like "whured" amiryte?
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Firefox is winning! Ye!
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Firefox is winning! Ye!
Only because this is a fixed competition.
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Okay, I am now programming heavily with Javascript, and I have to say
Firefox > IE 6

Don't believe me? Check out this website
Here
IE takes about 10 times the amount of time Firefox takes, to render a page generated by a javascript inserting rows into a table. What's really pathetic though is IE on the Mac. It is 3 times slower than the IE on Windows, and 30 times slower than Mozilla Firefox. Safari and Opera have very comparable times to Firefox.
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Firefox 2.0 alpha is coming soon, with the final version somewhere in June
Also, what's this about Opera integratin bittorrent in their browser?
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Opera 9 preview 2 is going to released soon.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1920351,00.asp
And yes, Opera is integrating BitTorrent in to the browser. Opera does everything before anyone else, you know.
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I don't care too much about BitTorrent (although it might come in handy for the occasional interesting BT link I come across... I just never come across them often enough to want to install a separate client), but the other changes in Opera 9 look very sweet. Looks like they've streamlined many of the customizing options, added several others, and Widgets sound like they'll be fun to play around with.

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