A few days ago I downloaded a copy of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to play around with it and see how things looked. So far I haven’t been particularly impressed. It’s a slightly flashier Firefox ripoff, but the main engine driving the program is as slow and non-standards-compliant as ever. The layout of the menu is fundamentally altered from past versions of IE, and I suspect that they’re going to confuse a lot of their users. The one item that’s impressed me is their implementation of syndication feeds. They’ve made it easy for someone who doesn’t know how to use feeds to start doing so; however, by placing the subscription menu in the “Favorites Center” sidebar, I suspect they’re going to confuse people. Whose idea was it to use the same name for two different and separate features?
The real amusement so far, though, came when I checked out the search bar. The browser’s default search engine? Google. I suspect this was not Bill’s idea.
The fact that Google is your search provider by default is probably because it was your default in IE6 - IE7 setup migrates your autosearch settings. You can read more about search in IE7 on the IEBlog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/07/527266.aspx
Thanks for trying out IE7!
-Bruce
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for your comment. I rather suspected that it was something along those lines; however, I found it amusing nonetheless.
I’m continuing to toy with IE7, especially as I design new blog themes, but I don’t expect to be switching back to IE from Firefox any time soon.
-Nicole