I was reviewing someone’s site this afternoon and usually uses all the browsers I have which are Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. I updated my IE to Internet Explorer 7 a few weeks ago but only until today did I started to “explore” it. Although it’s not a stable release and still a beta version, it’s running pretty well on mine. I found out a few changes they made in this version.
The hover function in CSS now works in IE7. I remembered it doesn’t work in previous versions of IE. I was testing the new bullets I changed on my site and testing it but then “Eh? It’s changing color on hover” *Rubs eye* I didn’t see wrongly, the hover thing worked! That was a good thing, I’m so glad that it’s showing up in IE at last. There’s also tabs, I was thinking they copied the idea from somewhere o.O but at least there’s improvement. In addition, they added the anti-phishing feature which is kind of cool. It’s something I haven’t seen in other browsers yet and the feature protect us from those fake websites as well. Also, this might be a good news for web designers because the negative margins does not have any more problems in IE7, it’s rendering it just like any other browsers. How about that? :hehe:
Talking about the Internet and laptops, I am so pissed off with the school’s system. A few days ago, the school map their domains to my laptop so that we can install an Accounting program for our EAA classes. And you know what? My laptop is lagging now and there’s some errors here and there. One of my friend’s Norton stop working and became a bit buggy as well. 
This is the second time it’s happening. The first time, I reformatted my entire laptop and I don’t want to do it again and lose all my files. Stupid school and it’s lousy system. =x
2 May, 2006 at 7:07 am
Ehhh IE…
All of a sudden everyone’s doing tabbed browsing. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. It’s great
However, as much as I love Firefox, they really were not the first ones to come up with that concept.
Anyway, as far as I’m concerned, I still don’t think very highly of IE. Good for them for finally fixing up their bugs and other…issues :P
1 May, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Ooh, I’ve just downloaded it. I use IE because I don’t like Firefox and now I’m not so sure that I like the new version of IE. It’s sorta too bulky, and I don’t like the colouring. I haven’t tried out the tabs yet, I’ll try now. It works! :P
One really annoying thing is how the text seems to be made all bigger and uglier. I hope that I’ll get used to it.
1 May, 2006 at 3:27 pm
I’m not into IE.. so yeah. It lags :nono:
1 May, 2006 at 11:56 am
Blah, that’s more stuff I need to adjust on my CSS then for later. I assume that we’ll still be coding for old versions of IE for a while until everyone switches over, but it’s nice to know that it’s taken steps to improve itself. I myself will forever remain a Firefox enthusiast.
1 May, 2006 at 9:02 am
Reply to Alexine
I’m not too sure but there’s something very wrong with the school’s system. I need IE on my laptop because one of my school’s system website can’t load in Firefox and can only work in IE, thus IE is very important to me in that sense. -_-
1 May, 2006 at 5:45 am
Reply to Brenda
Firefox stole the tabs idea themselves
They never invented it.
1 May, 2006 at 5:44 am
Maybe your school network gave you guys a virus o.O
I haven’t bothered to install IE7, I don’t really use IE much anyway and I have a Firefox extension to check if my site works in IE XD
1 May, 2006 at 1:39 am
Internet Explorer 7′s tabs? They copied it from Firefox! Where else?
Heheheh.
Microsoft hates competition. Hence, they seek to copy any other browser that has an idea that is better than theirs. They did the same thing with Netscape several years ago. Tsk.
Anyway, I hope your laptop issues get sorted out soon!
1 May, 2006 at 1:25 am
Eh I didn’t know that IE7 is out! Going to download it like, right now! Haha I think I know where they copied the idea of tabs from. ;D