Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Interner Explorer RC1: Not bad for a Microsoft browser. But kinda creaky

technologizer.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–12 of 12 posts

Re: Interner Explorer RC1: Not bad for a Microsoft browser. But kinda creaky

#11

Post by lux »

lux wrote: post #9

I don't want to fire up VMWare to install IE8 since it's been slow on me lately, but have they done anything to improve debugging or do we still need visual studio or another external app for that? And can you install this alongside IE7 or is there the same problem that IE7 had where it wouldn't work properly alongside IE6 for testing?

Hmmm, googling mentions something about new developer tools built-in, as well as an IE7 rendering mode. Waiting for the download to see for myself. This sounds promising!

Re: Interner Explorer RC1: Not bad for a Microsoft browser. But kinda creaky

#12

Post by joshsharp »

briansmith wrote: post #5
hernan7 wrote: post #4

"Someday, I suspect, browsers will dump their search fields and just use the address bar for everything." Google Chrome does that; personally I love it. (When I go back to Firefox I always resent having to press an extra tab to go to the search field.)

Everything old is new again. The first browser to do this was IE 6 (or maybe even 5). People didn't get it (it wasn't discoverable enough), and people complained that the browser was helping Microsoft spy on them. Google only improved the UI a little and made Google the default instead of MSN search.

Agreed. When everyone was moving to Firefox because it was 'lighter weight', I stuck with the Mozilla suite because one of the things I liked was searching from the address bar. And this was years ago. It's ironic that the same people criticising the Mozilla browser for being 'clumsier' are now praising Chrome for being more streamlined.
Post reply on HN