Ie 7 Beta 3

[Alexius 0]

The only reason it holds a monopoly over such a large amount of users is that it comes preloaded with all PCs, and since they are the majority of all operating systems used (that is, Windows PCs to clarify) people do not really bother on finding another browser when theirs seems to work alright. Alright, however, doesn't cut the cake.The fonts in IE suck... it needs anti-aliased font (as somebody had said earlier). Additionally, it needs to load webpages with a W3C Standard so that instead of screwing up webpages that don't write styles specificially to work in IE, all webdesigners require less code to complete a webpage.This is coming from a webdesigner who had to spend around 20 more hours on his CSS to actually get his site working 95% well in IE, while in Safari, Firefox, and Camino, it runs perfectly.

Edited July 31, 2006 by Alexius (see edit history)

[Mjay06 0]

It'll have to be pretty spectacular to get me to switch from Firefox

[Alexius 0]

GAH! I hate it when people say "company 1 copied company 2, just look at it!" First of all, you can't just say IE copied FF because it cleaned up it's interface and made it more "user friendly." That is what a company is supposed to do, especially when doing a major program upgrade. And you can't say IE copied FF's tabs idea, FF was not the first web browser to implement tabs. IE is certainly not copying anyone. They might be getting ideas on what people like, what they like, what is most efficient (certainly, tabs, and simple interface). MS is doing the right thing. IE is MS's own code, they did not simple "copy" someone else's code and make it their own, and neither did FF.

Right. One of the first browsers to implement tabbed browsing was Safari on the Mac. So, somebody copied somebody, eh?

[Tetraca 0]

For those who are complaining about anti-aiased fonts in IE: Are you SURE you enabled Microsoft Cleartype in the display options? IE will only render anti-aliased font if Cleartype is on...