Browserfest
So I guess you all know that IE7 is now on official release. This will come down via windows update in the near future, but I suggest you go and get it now if you have no compelling reason to do otherwise. The only minor pain will be cross browser testing, as you’ll need to run IE6 in a virtual PC (I think there are various articles around about hacking a standalone IE6 that will live happily side by side – good luck with that).
Something that totally slipped past me is that Firefox 2.0 has also just been released! I have no idea what’s new just yet, but I love this little browser so I’ll be installing today. I think you should too.
firefox has an inline spell checker now.
hurrah, my werds will be spult rite.
actually the sods don’t include any dictionaries, and there’s very little help in installing them; you need to download the UK English dictionary before it all starts up (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/)
Also it seems to have messed up adblock which requires new components, but won’t tell me which ones.
Comment by barryd, October 25, 2006 @ 10:45 am
Hmm, the process for upgrading extensions went fine for me… it found a bunch on incompatible extensions, went off to find the updated versions, and auto installed.
I’m not sure if I’m imagining this, but pretty sure the rendering speed has improved. Strutting around my own site seems much faster anyway.
I think the impact of the new release seems much less than IE, but mostly because IE was lagging in features and CSS support so the changes are more apparant.
One thing I saw in Opera that I really like is incorporating paged data results into the browser – it will find links that are likely to be next page / previous page and provides shortcuts for navigation. Quite a minor thing, but nice feature.
Comment by Oli, October 25, 2006 @ 11:29 am