NeoSmart has a review of the just released Internet Explorer 7 and screenshots to match. The review focuses on the user interface, security, and compatibility of Internet Explorer 7 compared to IE6, Opera, and Firefox. They conclude: "The world of online browsing has finally reached a point where, by-and-large, it doesn't matter what browser a user chooses or how they decide to browse the web, for the most part pages will display the way they should, the users will be secure, and malware needs to find a new venue. This latest build of Internet Explorer 7 only strengthened our opinion."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Oh really? When I used the old Mozilla suite, Ctrl + F brought up the standard find dialog. How did you access find as you type then?
I wasn't commenting on keywords, I was asking what you were referring to. I'm still a bit unclear on what you mean, but my guess is aliases for bookmarks that you can type into the address bar to access?
Opera has also has had that for a while. (edit: just tried keywords/aliases in Opera 3.60 and it has it. This was released in 1999. Not sure if earlier versions had it.) The Mozilla Foundation wasn't even created until 1998, let alone having an actual browser product. They didn't ship a 1.0 until something like 2002, right?
Edited 2006-07-02 20:57
Member since:2005-11-12
Member since:2005-07-06
Wrong again folks. Mozilla/Firefox supports both plugins and extensions. They are not the same. An extension can add new features to the browser by extending the underlying XUL code or completely change the user interface around allowing users to tweak it in unlimited ways. A plugin such as real player is incorporated into the rendering part of the Mozilla/Firefox engine but it doesn't extend the XUL code at all.
Sorry, I used the wrong terminology. IE has had add-ons. They are "plugins", but are actually called add-ons. They do the same thing as extensions, though not as easy to develop.
Member since:2005-11-12
It doesn't really matter which product had which feature first. Find as you type is really just incremental search which first came out in Emacs long before any browser had it. The Firefox developers took a look at which features were useful and brought them together. These might not be new features but they are useful features. So IE 7 now looks like Opera and Firefox and other applications out there. They saw what people are using and made changes to IE to bring it up to speed. Is it innovation or invention? I rarely see new inventions in software anymore. It is usually the way developers combine features they have seen elsewhere. Look at something like itunes. It is innovation? Download of purchased files is an old model. Synchonization of music to a desktop is just a copy of palm pilot features. Nothing new but possibly innovative in the way the existing tech. was brought together.
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2005-11-12
As far as I know, the Mozilla browser never had it
Well, guess what, you guessed wrong. Mozilla had it before Firefox became popular, which was before Opera had it.
Keywords... huh? Keywords for what?
More evidence the contrarians don't know what they are talking about. Keywords in Mozilla/Firefox allow you to open a bookmark or group of tabs using one letter abbreviation. If you were familiar with the feature you would be able to comment on it.
Extensions are just plug-ins with a different name dude. IE had those long before Firefox or Moz
Wrong again folks. Mozilla/Firefox supports both plugins and extensions. They are not the same. An extension can add new features to the browser by extending the underlying XUL code or completely change the user interface around allowing users to tweak it in unlimited ways. A plugin such as real player is incorporated into the rendering part of the Mozilla/Firefox engine but it doesn't extend the XUL code at all.
Edited 2006-07-02 20:55