Internet Explorer 7 Rocks....Well Sort Of
About 30 seconds ago I was all set to write a post about how amazing Internet Explorer 7 was - a post about how sweet all of the new features are and how I had tested my site and a bunch of other sites and they all looked great.
But then I went to Blogger.com, logged in, and started my post. I am sure I am not the first one to discover this, but the Blogger interface does not work with Internet Explorer 7! I started to type my post and nothing showed up! I was going to be proud of the fact that I was writing this post from IE7, but now I'll have to settle for good ole reliable Firefox.
Now, to be fair, IE7 is in BETA and Microsoft does not claim to have all of the bugs worked out. And the ONLY problem that I had with it was with Blogger. I tested SportsLizard.com out and everything looked and worked PERFECTLY. This is a huge deal for my business. Testing IE7 could have gone one of two ways: either everything goes well and it takes 15 minutes (exactly what happened) or there are all sorts of problems and redesigning my site becomes priority number one, resulting in me spending the next few months of my life perfecting my site for IE7 so that when the entire world begins using it this fall my site won't look like crap (thankfully, that didn't happen).
So what did I like so much about IE7? Among my favorite features:
The impending release of IE7 is one of those things that makes me nervous - considering at least 90% of internet users will be browsing with it come this fall, it has the potential to force me to make drastic changes to accommodate it. Thankfully, I can sleep better tonight knowing that everything likely will be fine. Entrepreneurs are the type of people that like to control their own destiny, it's part of our nature. When things like this pop up, we understand that we have to deal with them, it just makes us happier when dealing with them takes 15 minutes and not 3 months.
But then I went to Blogger.com, logged in, and started my post. I am sure I am not the first one to discover this, but the Blogger interface does not work with Internet Explorer 7! I started to type my post and nothing showed up! I was going to be proud of the fact that I was writing this post from IE7, but now I'll have to settle for good ole reliable Firefox.
Now, to be fair, IE7 is in BETA and Microsoft does not claim to have all of the bugs worked out. And the ONLY problem that I had with it was with Blogger. I tested SportsLizard.com out and everything looked and worked PERFECTLY. This is a huge deal for my business. Testing IE7 could have gone one of two ways: either everything goes well and it takes 15 minutes (exactly what happened) or there are all sorts of problems and redesigning my site becomes priority number one, resulting in me spending the next few months of my life perfecting my site for IE7 so that when the entire world begins using it this fall my site won't look like crap (thankfully, that didn't happen).
So what did I like so much about IE7? Among my favorite features:
- The futuristic style is appealing and extremely user friendly
- Tabbed browsing is on par with Firefox (finally)
- The search feature defaults with MSN, but lets you choose between others (Yahoo!, Google, Ask, AOL, etc)
- The RSS feed support is far superior to Firefox's live bookmarks. Whenever you land on a page with a feed, you are given the option to subscribe. The 'Favorites Center' in the upper right hand corner saves your feeds as well as your bookmarks. When you click on a feed, it is displayed in the browser window
- If you have multiple tabs open, you have the option to view 'Quick Tabs', a thumbnail overview of each of the tabs that you have open - very cool
The impending release of IE7 is one of those things that makes me nervous - considering at least 90% of internet users will be browsing with it come this fall, it has the potential to force me to make drastic changes to accommodate it. Thankfully, I can sleep better tonight knowing that everything likely will be fine. Entrepreneurs are the type of people that like to control their own destiny, it's part of our nature. When things like this pop up, we understand that we have to deal with them, it just makes us happier when dealing with them takes 15 minutes and not 3 months.
posted by Adam McFarland at
3/07/2006 09:18:00 PM
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