Nathan J Pledger

Program.X musings from the Isle of Man concerning ASP.NET, in particular accessibility, web standards and neat ideas.

IE7 is awful (for me)

Haven't blogged for a while. Not had anything intelligent to say.

This seems pretty intelligent ...

IE7 is awful. I swear the Beta and RTM wasn't as bad as the one thats running on my machine at the moment. It is always crashing ... humourously, while I was trying to blog about it crashing.

Yet on Vista, it is rock solid.

Hmmm.... between a crashing browser than behaves itself web-standards wise a little more, or a stable dirty browser, I know which one I'd choose.

Btw, any better way to find my own blog than having to do Sign in > View posts by Nathan Pledger (which brings a new window - poor accessibility wise)?

Posted: Jan 24 2007, 12:17 PM by Nathan Pledger | with 5 comment(s)

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Ramon Smits said:

Luckily there is a browser that behaves the same on all systems called firefox :)

Really.. I cannot life without it. I have FF installed at home (xp-sp2 & ubuntu 6.1x) and at work and all those plugins are awesome like the bookmark plugin, the web developer toolbar, the weather pluging, the built-in dictionary, the advertisement remover, bugmenot.

It really is a mystery to me why a developer would want to use IE7.

And about an easy way to get to your dashboard. I really don't know where to find the link :). Just remember the word 'controlpanel' by saying this 100x times.

http://bloggingabout.net/controlpanel/

# January 24, 2007 6:03 AM

Erwyn van der Meer said:

I use IE 7.0 and FireFox 2.0 on both Windows XP and Windows Vista. All configurations have crashed on me (say once a week), but I notice no significant differences in stability.

# January 24, 2007 6:06 AM

Jean-Paul Smit said:

I've never experienced a crashing IE 7. I work with it on a daily basis on a Windows XP machine.

# January 24, 2007 2:14 PM

Ruud Campsteijn said:

@ Ramon Smits:

"It really is a mystery to me why a developer would want to use IE7."

A developer would want to use IE7 since IE6 has a massive market share, and IE7 will take over IE6's reign with giant leaps. It's just a matter of time (especially with Vista around the corner), and since you'll want to make sure your app works with the most popular browser it's imperative you check your app with IE7.

BTW, I use Firefox 2 at home myself, so I am certainly not anti-Firefox or anything.

# January 25, 2007 1:55 AM

Nathan Pledger said:

"It really is a mystery to me why a developer would want to use IE7."

I agree Ramon. Just because I am a developer doesn't mean I can't have free choice. I prefer to use IE7 because it is cleaner and has a new tab button - which bizarrely, Firefox does not have by default - although I did find a key combination when you click the refresh button that does the same.

So long as it works in all browsers (particularly ones that occupy 90% of the market ;) ), it matters not.

I guess I have a bd install :(. May explain VS randomly corrupting my web.config file, too. Which is great fun. That Visual Studio, it;s such a joker! :O

# January 25, 2007 2:05 AM
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