Comments on: Is IE7 just as bad as IE6?

By: Web Design Media

Web Design Media — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:16:30 +0000

Honestly, Firefox is the best web browser…IE7 is good though, but its no match for Firefox

By: Everyday Weekender

Everyday Weekender — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:30:10 +0000

I don’t know personally I think i.e. 7 is better the 6.. but maybe because I use firefox now

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:25:12 +0000

It is possible to run IE6 in Linux, so Im sure there is a way to run it in Vista, when you learn how be sure to let me know

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:36:47 +0000

Can you try turning off ClearType? Tools / Internet Options / Advanced / Multimedia “Always use ClearType for HTML.”

IE7 defaults to using ClearType; there is an option in the first run page to turn it off.

By: Spud Oregon

Spud Oregon — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:04:51 +0000

Sorry Tony, my bad. You’re spot on when talking about a technical audience. I have a bunch of sites about child education, and over 90% of my traffic uses IE, that’s why I build for IE. Back to rendering…

By: Gregg

Gregg — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:51:27 +0000

I honestly can’t stand IE7..The font looks blury!!! grrr

That’s why I stick with FireFox

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:46:29 +0000

Actually that’s a fallacy. I suppose it depends on what your site is about, but for those with technical audience, actual usage of IE is significantly less. Looking at my own stats over the last 30 days various versions of Firefox (each patch gets its own group) accounted for 37% of visitors. Closely followed by IE6 with 36% and IE7 with 20%.

And before anyone decides to point out “But Tony, IE6 and IE7 add up to a whooping 56% total!”, please recall the original topic of this discussion – IE7′s render is significantly different from IE6.

So I’m sorry Spud Oregon, but with a technically oriented traffic around, any particular version of IE is actually a minority browser

By: Spud Oregon

Spud Oregon — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:28:12 +0000

I never bothered with all the Firefox addons, so the two things that made Firefox great for me were tabbed browsing and rss feeds. With them in IE7, I’ve got all I need. I also like the zoom function, and printing is a doddle – especially now you can just drag the margins in or out. On top of that, it blends in beautifully with Vista whereas Firefox feels a bit alien.

I’m kind of the opposite of most webmasters. I build sites for IE because it’s the most used browser, and then test them in Firefox and co. When things don’t render in anything but IE, I scream a lot and curse Firefox!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:14:41 +0000

I’ve used IE7 on the a test machine at work and had no real complaints so far. It does seem to take an exhorbatant amount of time to install. I got the feeling it was like an OS service pack with all the file copies it was doing. On the compatibility front it seems to be much better than IE6 but I haven’t really put it through it’s paces.

Kudos to Dean though for an excellent follow up in this case. Well done.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:44:45 +0000

re IE6 on Vista, please look at
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/03/20/ie6-vpc-refresh-now-available.aspx