Law Technology

Internet Explorer 8 ? (yawn)

By Ross

This seems to be my week for frustrating rants. With the latest Internet Explorer 8 being my next victim. Truly, am I missing something here? I downloaded the new IE8 earlier this week. My impressions so far are:

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Seriously, what was the point of this update. Looks the same (confusing and unappealing interface). Doesn’t seem compatible with a number of sites (just tried to send a Hallmark e-card with it and it errors out on several pages that Firefox has no trouble with). Maybe all the intelligence at Microsoft these days is focused into SharePoint or Windows 7 development these days. ‘Cause it sure isn’t showing in the new IE8.

If you want some browser run, you should be using Google Chrome with its elegantly simple/brilliant “omnibox” combining the URL box and search box into one (so simple that no one else thought to do it), Apple’s latest Safari 4 (the “Top Sites” panel display will blow you away the first time you see it - no one can hold a candle to Apple showmanship), or the latest Opera 10 Alpha - the most slickly cosmopolitan browser - it’s a beauty and FAST with its new Turbo button (which actually seems to work and is impressively stable for an “alpha” product).

Congratulations Microsoft for slipping again into mediocrity and irrelevance.

Full post as published by Ross Ipsa Loquitur on March 21, 2009 (boomark / email).