New Internet Explorer 7.0 BETA
Ok, I have been using both Internet Explorer 6 and the new Firefox for the last year. I have not fully converted to Firefox (mainly because I am a creature of habbit and have been using IE to long) but today I downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7.0 BETA and have been using it all morning and am somewhat impressed so far.Â
One thing I really like is you have the use of ”Tabs”. (A great feature of Firefox.) I have been frustrated with certain toolbars I use not working well. Probably because they are not prepared for the new version of IE. The main one I am having troubles with is the SEOINC toolbar. It seems that IE is just putting it in a certain place and not allowing it to be moved, even with the toolbars unlocked. So far this is the only bug that I personally have found (but I am sure there are many) You can include the toolbar towards the bottom of the page through some customization, but I have not figured out why its not working up top in the normal area.
The reason I blog about it, is Microsoft has realized they need to make some changes and win some people back from Firefox. With that said, according to my stats I still get 80% of my traffic from people using IE. So what does this mean to you? If you are not looking at your website through ALL browsers you may be missing something. See how your website looks, loads, reads and how the colors look. You may be surprised when you see the way it looks through different browsers. If make your website look good no matter what browser people use then you are doing things right and have nothing to worry about!
One thing that you will never get from Microsoft that you will from Firefox is cool toys … Firefox is open source, and because of that you will always have developers adding to it making it better and better. I will probably keep using both cause there are benefits both ways, but its important to understand why you should!
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