Months and months ago I posted about the new IE 7 Beta – well it’s now available as a release candidate (meaning it should crash a whole lot less). It looks pretty, has tabs, has a slightly cumbersome UI but I’m willing to get over lots of it. Basically, it’s a good browser without being great. They’ve weeded out lots of the really frustrating rendering things, so that web developers are happier people generally, and they’ve got it coming close to where Firefox is at. Personally, I think that Firefox still kicks its behind, but given that we’ve got a few apps that only work in IE at work – there are worse problems than having to end up using this puppy for them. Naturally, I’d recommend that rather than use this, you click on the “Firefox with Google Toolbar” icon on the lower left hand side. But this is better than using IE 6, so if you’re still using that – get onto IE 7 quick smart!
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
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IE 7 Available as Release Candidate
August 25, 2006 by Geoff
Category World | Tags: Browsers,Firefox,IE-7,IE7,Internet-Explorer,Microsoft,Reviews,Tech | 2 Comments
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Checking Out Windows Live Writer
August 14, 2006 by Geoff
This post is being written in the latest new fandangled thing from the Microsoft “Windows Live” people – who look like they’re doing some pretty cool stuff. “Windows Live Writer” – which can be found here, is a WYSIWYG blog editor.
At this stage I must admit it does look pretty darn clever. It’ll suck down the styles from your blog and make it look exactly like it will end up in your post. Pretty smart. I’d say I’ll keep playing around with it – at this stage it’s only a beta and there will no doubt be some issues. I’ll have to give it a whirl on the train this evening too – see how it performs in an “offline” environment. If we even manage to make it work with “Ultimate Tag Warrior” (which I just plugged into the wordpress install), we might even use this regularly.
Pretty funky tool at any rate.
Category World | Tags: Blogging,live,Microsoft,Reviews,Tech,windows,windows-live-writer,wordpress,Writer | 1 Comment
