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From the IE Blog:
This release is not the preview or the update to the preview,
but the real Beta 2 of IE7 for Windows XP SP2, Windows
Server 2003 SP1, and Windows XP 64-bit Edition.We acted on a lot of the feedback and bug reports...
around some CSS behaviors, application compatibility
feedback, reliability data (yes, we do analyze the
information that comes when you click 'Send Error
Report'), and user experience feedback.
Going to take some getting used to, but definately a better initial experience than Firefox from a user's perspective. (Took me a good two days to figure out how to setup multiple tabs for my "home page").
*LOVE* the quicktab thingy.
(Five minutes later .. the CSS thing is going to take some investigation. Definately renders some stuff differently from Firefox. Back to Firefox for me until I get the time to debug the CSS. Wish they had a firefox compatiblity module which switched rendering engines. ;)
Wish they had a firefox compatiblity module which switched rendering engines. ;)
Ha! Have you suggested that over on Channel 9? ;)
Wish they had a firefox compatiblity module which switched rendering engines. ;)
I've been using IE7 for a long time but just for testing. I love the rendering engine.
For me as a devloper IE lacks all of the nice extensions Firefox has and I already got used to, starting with the Web Developer extension... so for me as a WebDev there is no way back... I'll keep my FireFox.
Even if it hurts me, I know Firefox will loose some % in market share, because users will see they have Tabs ,RSS support, pages load faster, and they look nicer in IE7 (for my taste).
- Steven
[news.bbc.co.uk...]
For me as a devloper IE lacks all of the nice extensions Firefox has and I already got used to, starting with the Web Developer extension... so for me as a WebDev there is no way back... I'll keep my FireFox.
IE6 and IE7 have a similar tool you can download.
They've reversed the way that the mouse wheel works to zoom in and out when you hold down CTRL - MS shouldn't be messing with usability elements like that. Very bad.
TJ
I did this and well Dreamweaver went all squirrely right after the install, I had javascript errors coming up, just from DW loading. I think I might wait till the full release before I try it again, but even then I think I will just stick to FF.
As for the font smoothing of IE7, it reminds me alot how Linux renders pages for its browsers.
MY INTERNET CRASHES WITHIN 2 MINUTES WITH IE 7
is this normal?
I installed the IE beta 2 on my main machine. Internet crashed within a few seconds each time.
Uninstalled to get back to IE 6
BUT
why is IE beta 2 crashing? Is it me? Or everyone
I'd figure even MSFT would make sure their product works semi-smoothly before going beta, then ironing out the rest...
Hubes
This is beta software (i.e unfinished, pre-release code) with a high degree of entanglement with the underlying OS.
Do not install this software on a production machine unless you are prepared to spend time and effort sorting out any resulting issues. Install it on a virtual PC or on a test PC.
You should expect problems with beta code - that's the whole point of releasing it early to testers. The problems could be with the way the code works, installs/uninstalls, interacts with other code etc.
I think MS should make this clear on their website, rather than saying "Check it out and download it today" a better phrase would be "Download it and let us know about all the problems you experience so we can fix some of them in the final version."
Even when IE7 is released as a final product, early adopters would be wise to wait until any significant issues have been identified before deploying on production machines.
I'm getting a lot of "debugging" notices now
looking good.. glad to see quick updates, too bad you can't just download the updates and reboot. having to uninstall, rebooot, upgrade, rebooot kinda BLOWS
why is IE beta 2 crashing? Is it me? Or everyone
crashing like crazy for me too. just normal surfing I get a crash about every 3 minutes. o_0;; Even one of my main sites makes it crash immediately.... which is obviously no good. :(
Even though its beta (2), I'm surprised it performs this poorly. a second betas should be further along then crash every few visited websites.
That said, In the limited amount of time it works though...
I did like what I saw a lot.(though they really need to add super Drag and Drop. and its REALLY annoying you CAN NOT move the top address bar and can't choose to get rid of the search bar...even as a customize toolbar option.)
I'm going back to maxthon for now.
1) Loaded it, like all new MS things it looked gorgeous.
2) Looked at my site -- everything centered. Ok, might be a CSS bug.
2.5) I did not accept my site's RSS feed because it had a DTD in it.
3) Logged into HSBC's business banking -- everything centered
3.5) HSBC's system rejected my login because of an unsupported browser type and I could not figure out how to muck around with the UA.
4) Got annoyed as hell that it had the Cleartype setting enabled by default. Why should a browser mess with what is a system wide display setting?
Now trying to do a clean uninstall.
Pity. You'd have thought that Microsoft would have made a special effort to release a stellar product which atleast performed to the level of its previous product and at the very minimum on par with Firefox.
Will definately be a few more months and a few more betas before I even bother downloading and testing it again. Wonder what the firefox 2.0 schedule is...
Sort of similar to the george bush query that was demonstrated at pubcon. Looked gorgeous, but had dupe results... (fixed since then)
What? You were able to get through the business banking "IE Only" check on HSBC? And all the stuff was not centered?
Oh well, too late for me to give it a second shot. Perhaps with 7.1
Personal banking, could also be a different country site as some of them are different.
