My IE7 Experience

Microsoft released IE7 on Wednesday.  I went ahead and installed it on my laptop.  Let me tell you that I did not enjoy that installation.  After I download and run the file I a prompted that I need to install security updated for IE before I even install the browser. Well not wanting to get hacked with this security hole I go ahead and install it.  Five minutes later it says it needs to reboot.  Ugh!

Ok so I say yes reboot.  But the installer hangs and needs to be forced to end. That’s intuitive for novice users to do.

Once the system came back up the installer didn’t run and start where I left off. I had to restart the installer and it again asked me if I wanted to install security updates.  I again said yes thinking there might be more, as dumb as that sounds.  It checked for installs and ran the Malicious Software Removal tool again.  Then it went right into installing the browser finally.

It took about another five minutes.  After it completed it required ANOTHER REBOOT!!!  Holy crap two reboots to install a web browser.  Once the system came back I launched IE.  It has some nice UI features to the browser but I found some weird UI choices as well. For instance to set any options in the browser now has to be done in a control panel or something cause there is no more menu items across the top.

No File, Edit, BOOKMARKS.  How can you leave bookmarks off a browser?  

Anyway I went and checked out some of my sites.  Some are just not right at all.  Travis said that IE7 is interpreting display: block; in some cases as display: crazy; he had to do some conditional statements to get a work around working, another crappy work around for IE.

So far as a web developer not to happy that I know have to deal with another crappy browser from Microsoft.  The best part is now I need a virtual machine because I can not have both IE6 and IE7 on the same machine for testing.

Excuse me while I go rip my hair out.

If you’re not using Firefox yet, thugs are going to come to your house and beat up your first born.

Related Links:
Microsoft IE 7
IE7 vs Firefox 2: The memory usage showdown
Robert Scoble: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)
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