Quote:
|
Originally Posted by X-Istence
IE 7 with regards to plugins and whatnot might be light years behind, but at least they have fixed their rendering issues. Since they have fixed their rendering issues the box hack has stopped working for their browser as well, so it will be more standards compliant.
|
Have they? I was using the IE7 beta before my Firefox revelation. (Beta 2, I believe.) It rendered woefully slowly. It loaded pages slower than IE6 and Firefox. I fell in love with tabbed browsing. If I hadn't, I would have gone right back to IE6, which in my opinion was a faster and less resource intensive/buggy program. (Of course I know that IE7 was in beta and had some kinks to be worked out.)
I held out against the FF onslaught for a long time. I was the last of my friends to get it. Now that I have it, I don't love it for the plug-ins or ad ons, or 3rd party content. I love it because without all of that it has a remarkably clean UI and a better Google toolbar.
On another note, why in the world would anyone still use a text-based browser? The only reason I can see not to get one of the numerous
free browsers currently out there would be the lack of an Internet connection, but if you need a browser, you obviously have Internet access.
I just wish that people would upgrade their old browsers so that Internet standards and technology can move forward, instead of being tied down backwards-compatibility. (Netscape 4+CSS=grr)