My Opinion on Internet Explorer
IE is still the most popular browser today.
IE7
IE7 is an absolute and utterly humiliating failure. It was very sad to see it fails over time taking into account that I'm usually a Microsoft fan when it comes to products and tools. It introduced some good usability features which already existed in FF but not in IE6 because IE6 development was frozen for quiet a while. The short list of features includes tabs, Ctrl-Enter, etc. The IE team should not have touched IE engine though. The browser became unstable and buggy. I use it only due to the fact that the majority of my users are on IE7.
IE8
IE8 is more solid than IE7 at a first glance. I installed it because Microsoft has moved it to the high priority updates last week. Too early. IE8 has many issues and I was forced to uninstall it. It needs service pack ASAP and I can't recommend to install it yet. In addition to some severe connectivity issues it causes many popular sites not to work properly with it. It has severe back compatibility issue.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:46 PM
