Lions and Tigers and IE 7! Oh my!

[Aloone_Jonez]

They're just dumbing it down their already dumb web browser.

[Refalm]

They're just dumbing it down their already dumb web browser.

It's not exactly dumbed down. Have you ever take a look at the Internet Explorer control panel?
A lot of useless options that have no real meaning to browsing. Who in his right mind would disable HTTP 1.1? Only some nerd expert with nothing to do would. And those people would rather use Regedit or WinHex for that kind of stuff anyway.

[worker201]

Typical Microsoft.   Trying their best to turn the Web into a closed platform.

Actually, I think you've hit the nail right on the head.  Pretty sure that's exactly what they're doing.  The internet is the future, so they want to own it.  And if they own it, nobody else can.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Well if that's so then Google is a big obstacle in M$'s path ... lets hope Ballmer doesn't Fucking Kill

[adiment]

IE7 is pretty bad. I don't know if it's my version or it's just buggy - I tried it last night and it seemed lagged like when I'd click links it would take IE about 5 secs to start loading them.

All IE7 has is a nice theme...

[Aloone_Jonez]

Hmm I don't know, I'm not going to pass judgement on IE 7 until it's out of beta phase. I remember lots of people were complaining about FireFox when it first came out so I'll wait and see.

[Orethrius]

I'm not so sure, Aloone.  I don't recall Firefox ever excluding a standard View Source option, but YMMV.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

You mean you can't "view page source" with IE 7 ? Uhhh ... why would they do that ? I actually use it quite a bit to find out where embedded items are located ... it's quite useful ... I wonder if it's just that way for the beta ?

[Orethrius]

You mean you can't "view page source" with IE 7 ? Uhhh ... why would they do that ? I actually use it quite a bit to find out where embedded items are located ... it's quite useful ... I wonder if it's just that way for the beta ?

Possibly, but it still stinks to me.  I've not seen ANY other browser do anything on that order of magnitude, even in betas.  ESPECIALLY in betas.

[toadlife]

Tried it. I think it's ugly.

[Refalm]

Tried it. I think it's ugly.

Windows Vista will have those IE7 graphics all over :rolleyes:

[WMD]

Well, not all of Vista will look quite like that.  IE7 seems to be at the bottom of the barrel, but Vista won't look quite that bad.  (It'll still look bad, though :p)

And...did anyone notice that the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner looks exactly like the Spotlight icon, just mirrored horizontally?

[hm_murdock]

Actually, IE7 on XP is ugly... and IE7 on Vista is the same code running with Vista's new ultra-mega-super rendering 3d vectorized death engine. I mean Quartz. I mean Avalon. No, I mean Quartz.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

I hope Vista crashes and burns ... into Ballmer's ass !!! And then Ballmer goes on a rampage and slaughters Bill Gates along with all the makers of Vista and then Ballmer experiences a reactor meltdown in his head and erases M$ HQ off the face of the earth for all time :thumbup: ... oh and the blast causes a freak EMP wave that erases all copies of all M$ software incuding Winblow$ off all the harddrives on the planet and satellites and space probes, and melts all the M$ cds and dvds everywhere !