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RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

kilikopele — Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:18 am

Author: kilikopele

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:18 am

Sorry. That one went right on over.

Re: RE: Re: RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

M-Saunders — Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:47 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:47 am

kilikopele wrote:

Well, Uncle Bill would say you must have something coded incorrectly.

Why would Bill Tung have any interest in website standards?

(If you've never seen Police Story I or II, that won't make any sense. Normal service will be resumed ASAP.)

M

RE: Re: RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

towy71 — Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:48 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:48 pm

A dog usually has four legs, it barks and sometimes fetches sticks: as far as I can remember Internet Exploder has none of those attributes
I haven't had the misfortune to have used the poo that is Internet Exploder for quite a long time now :phew:

RE: Re: RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

wyliecoyoteuk — Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:18 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:18 pm

I think that it is actually that IE insists on checking for a proxy before it loads the home page, despite proxy settings being disabled. (we use a transparent proxy on our firewall). Or it might be because it is an Apache server. FF just goes straight to it.
It is a very simple index page. with about 8 links to other pages, and our company logo.
After the first page, they are about the same speed.

RE: Re: RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

kilikopele — Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:36 pm

Author: kilikopele

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:36 pm

Well, Uncle Bill would say you must have something coded incorrectly. You should be using the official (read: Proprietary) "Windows-quicker HTML" which is available in our $2000 developer's kit.

Re: RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:44 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:44 pm

kilikopele wrote:

Oh, you're going to be angry at me. I'm a Firefox/Thunderbird user from way back, BUT...

You can call IE7 a lot of things, but it starts up faster than Firefox on both of my Windows systems than FF does. IE6 used to be about the same startup time. Dog or not, there are some speed tweaks under the hood.

It starts quickly, but then takes ages to load our intranet page(locked as home on our users' browsers), whereas FF loads it almost instantly.

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

jjmac — Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:40 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:40 am

Not a dog, a fungus type thing. As it has those tenticle type things that spread far and grip hard. Thinking a bit on the 'blob' there too.

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

Rhakios — Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:36 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:36 pm

Surely it is Firefox that is the dog, or at least a canid of some variety

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

jjmac — Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:28 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:28 am

wyliecoyoteuk
>>
Well, I looked at IE7,( and it is popping up everywhere, mainly due to autoupdates), so I had to).
>>

Good 'ol M$ -=- they will of course flag it as being just so popular (grin)

v5/6 ripped the guts out of my osr2 -=- still haven't gotten over that yet.

jm

cropped up on the short wave dial, late last sunday night, it was very light, tried to gain it up but still a bit scratchy ---
"screechhspuuutcraccckleee luto is a planet screeeeetchspuuttt were very pissed off sputtttcracccckkkleee you lot just wai sppuuuttttlecraaaacccccssss" ...
the transmission then just dimmed out ???

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

TheDoctor — Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:21 pm

Author: TheDoctor

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:21 pm

IEx always loads faster than Firefox, since it gets loaded when you start Windows up. (Note, this does not apply to Windows 3.1, just in case anyone wants to be pedantic. )

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

kilikopele — Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:21 pm

Author: kilikopele

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:21 pm

Oh, you're going to be angry at me. I'm a Firefox/Thunderbird user from way back, BUT...

You can call IE7 a lot of things, but it starts up faster than Firefox on both of my Windows systems than FF does. IE6 used to be about the same startup time. Dog or not, there are some speed tweaks under the hood.

I should, laughingly, point out though that-despite the MS position that you can always uninstall and easily revert back to IE6, both of my systems refused to uninstall it. It was like a cancer that killed the host when I tried to remove it.

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

sunix — Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:38 pm

Author: sunix

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:38 pm

tnx

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

OnlyTheTony — Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:05 pm

Author: OnlyTheTony

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:05 pm

As someone who is involved in web development IE7 is only marginally better than IE6 (in that it now recognises PNG alpha channels). 5/6 years of development and it's still falls way short of Firefox in terms of both standards compliancy and functionality.

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

godofthedevil — Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:27 pm

Author: godofthedevil

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:27 pm

well since i use linux, i dont use MSIE (much).. i did try MSIE for like 10mins hated it and got rid of it via system restore.. well m$ wont let you roll back normally.. i think MSIE7 is trying badly to rip off Firefox, but for me firefox is the DB of web browsing. shame 80% of the web surfing population dont see that.. then again they are not aware or just are lazy to try something new. its like someone finding a quicker route home then using a old way that you know.. i would like to try the new route..

RE: IS IE7 a dog or what?

candy — Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:08 pm

Author: candy

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:08 pm

It's a dog! and I can say that.

I find whenever I've had to use it, it reminds of why I chose Firefox instead.