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PaoloM · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject: IE7b2. ZOOM!!!!111

It works. It's fast. A lot.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx
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Magus · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

In. Deed.

I like the layout, and the more polished feel. A few thoughts as I play:

Favorites menu.
- being able to open all pages within a subfolder is something I've wanted
- buttons to list either favorites or RSS feeds
- can be pinned, and pages/folders act like links. much better than "click, hover, peruse"
- fixed size apparently, not dynamically fitting to content

Tabs.
- the throbber is on the tab itself, showing the loading action
- the active tab is slightly larger, making it easier to select
- new tab button still isn't intuitive
- Quick Tabs are godly. I will hear no denials.

Zooming.
- quick zoom at the bottom right of the IE window is a dropdown to show the current zoom, not unlike in Word.
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Mord · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject:

If it has type-ahead find and quick text zooming (Ctrl-+ and Ctrl--) then I'll no longer have any reason to use Firefox (on Windows anyway).
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lewis · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject:

I've been using b1 for a bit and I love the new tab button.

Having the menus not at the top really weirds me out though.

I assume the bits of the DOM which weren't implemented in b1 now are? Was annoying on a few sites.
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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

I hate to be the party-pooper, but it doesn't appear to be offering anything more than Avant does now. Maybe the phishing filter, but I don't really need that.

Can you control, with fine-grained adjustments, how tabs appear in multiple columns? This is an absolute must for me, as I frequently have MANY tabs open. Firefox and Opera both fall down on this front, either squeezing them into one impenetrable line, or by going to multiple lines which aren't squeezed at all and wind up taking like 1/3 of my vertical screen space away.
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lewis · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

Damn.

It's really f88king nice! I love how it doesn't have menus any more, I love the new icon and buttons, the page zooming is something I've never seen a browser do before (I don't think ctrl+/- will do quite what you're expecting, Mord Smile

). Pretty daft how it scales the scrollbars as well, though... duh...

I don't like the way the Favorites sidebar is now called the Favorites Center, or that they still can't spell Favourites.

But somehow life will go on.
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Mord · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject:

Jay · **Ex OSYer** Captain Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 1589

Just installed it and I hate it:

1) When I reenable the classic menu, WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD does it appear underneath the address bar? Even when I unlock the toolbars, I can't seem to change this positioning. Menu Bars are supposed to be at the top of the window....

2) It's kind of ugly. Whats with the background on the tabs?

3) It does handle transparent/translucent PNGs correctly. Thank goodness for that.

4) So we removed the menu bar and instead replacing it with icons that essentially perform the same function as the menu bar? What was the point. Oh and just to annoy people like me that like the menu bars at the top of the forms, you of course are unable to move the new "button menu" to the top of the window. Figures.

5) Quick Tabs seems kind of cool.

Perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned... but I don't see what the thrill is all about. There are some admittedly nice features (Quick Tabs and proper PNG support being at the top of the list) but the UI is generally a mess. Is there some way to simply place the menu bar at the top of the window? Is there a way to get rid of the l33t background on the tabs? Is there anyway to customize the size of the address bar? Can I hide that MSN Search feature as I have absolutely no intention of ever using? Are we honestly so desperate for a real update to IE that this will suffice? How is standards support in this version? Has MS finally delivered on that front as has been speculated?

EDIT: The Zoom feature is pretty nifty as well. Nonetheless....

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Damn this thing sucks up some ram. 70 megs of memory after a few minutes worth of use and three tabs open. That's a lot more than Firefox typically uses... between Visual Studio 2005 and IE7, I may need to look into more RAM soon.

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:56 am Post subject:

The RAM sucking thing makes me hesitant to try it. But this:

OscarWilde · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

Welcome to yesterday IE7.

And also, this is beta, so I'm guessing they're going to have quirks and bugs. So, ummm... if you see problems, report them. Only helps MS to make a better product for you guys in the end.
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It still doesn't seem to do anything better in the interface departement than Opera.
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OscarWilde · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:36 am Post subject:

Okay, I found out what Quick Tabs are. Reminds me of Shiira's, 'quick tabs', which I tried for a while but wasn't a big fan off.

I'll be testing out IE 7 later on my PC and make me own opinions.
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Mord · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:06 am Post subject:

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lewis · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:14 am Post subject:

I ain't fussed about how much memory it uses as long as it's fast. And it is really, really fast.
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Mord · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject: