Ie 6

Even in beta stage (6) on Windows XP, beta 2505 it is very stable.

With developer tools it helps a lot in researching how others do things.

I will not use anything else, but as someone put it (And no I am not sexist) Windows XP is like windows 2000 for women LOL, I didnt say that, I was not here.

K

I haven't upgraded yet, was going to then heard it has lots of bugs still and isn't that great an improvement on 5.5. Someone even said they think it should have been numbered 5.75!

I will probably put it on one of my less used pc for the moment just so I have it to test on but I think I'll stick with 5.5 for now.

What bugs exactly?

OS bugs? 3rd party software bugs?

I think it is very stable even in beta format.

K

I've been running IE6 since back when it was a BETA. No problems at all. This is the fastest browser I've ever had.

It's a coin toss for you. It doesn't work out for some people, but when it does, it really works!

Does it render pages the same way that IE 5 does or have there been a lot of improvements in CSS support and the like? I'm wondering if I should keep 5.5 around for the time being just for testing purposes until 6 becomes more popular. I don't really use IE that much, but I'd like to take a look at 6 just to see what it's like.

Too bad they won't let you install multiple versions on the same machine!

I recommend everyone upgrade. It has a several handy features, but it isn't a complete face lift. But frankly, IE improved on a few things, and there wasn't much else to improve. It comes with nice cookie management, the ability to lock your toolbars in place, a new media bar, and nifty image tricks like automatic resizing and whatnot. I am running it without problems and think it is a worthwhile upgrade.

Think I will go with 5.5. I am sorta with Webmistriss and Meg on this one. I had heard about the bugs also and this is why I asked.

Marc what exactly do you mean when you say you can lock your toolbars in place?

Oh, Do I get a cookie when I hit my 200 posts mark??

DM

LOL WHAT BUGS!!! hahahah

I read several newsletters, gain security advisories and topic dicussion from several different forums and I have not ran into one bug LOL.

K

Keeg, Do you use IE 6 on a regular basis or just for testing? If you haven't had any probs with it at all then I may just go for broke and D/L 6.

Yes, I have had IE6 beta on Windows 2000.

Then upgraded to Windows XP that was Beta with a beta IE6

Then installed Windows XP fresh (To see the difference in installations) with a beta version of IE6

Every version of IE6 has been stable. It does not crash its solid.

Now I have been running an NT kernel since I ran windows NT 4 server with my proxy server setup a couple years ago.

I now only run windows xp machines (3 under my desk here) and they are very stable.

I am getting DSL here in a few days so I will then be able to test IE6 in a broadband environment, wait I did already a couple weeks ago when I took this workstation to the bay area and ran some virus scanning for a company located there.

So, yes I would say you are safe to go to IE6, not even a question.

K

Quote: Originally posted by disaster-master
Marc what exactly do you mean when you say you can lock your toolbars in place?

If you right-click on your toolbars, you can "lock" the bars in the position they are in. This will prevent you from accidentally rearranging things. Love it.

Stabability and bugs in IE 6? No problems, has crashed several times, but so did 5x. Definitely not worse, and adds some nice features.

Quote: Originally posted by mjames

If you right-click on your toolbars, you can "lock" the bars in the position they are in. This will prevent you from accidentally rearranging things. Love it

That was one of my biggest pet peeves about v. 5. It seemed like every other day I had to re-arrange everything because I moved them by accident.

So am I right to assume that there are no major differences in the way it renders pages?

The main differences that I see between IE 5.5 & 6.0 are that if you put your cursor over a jpg (not a gif), it puts a bar over it that gives you 4 options. One is to print it, the other is to email it, the other is to save to favorites and the other is to open MY PICTURES folder. I was curious if that was a way around the no-right click script, since you don't right click.

The other thing that I really like is that it can help disable some annoying popups.

I have been using it for a couple of weeks and have noticed virtually no differences between it and IE 5.5. No crashes and no pages displaying funny.

hmm.. sounds good..
/me goes to Microsoft Windows Update

How does it (IE 6) deal with the older html tags, I heard tags like center, b, font etc are being dropped in favor of stylesheets, (XHTML) does IE6 still support the html 4 standards ?

the tags mentioned are supported... I just finished installing IE6... no rendering difference on TWF than the IE5.0 I had before.

What about the smart tags, or scumware as its now known, are these still operational ? (hope not)

Been reading about this topic from htmlgoodies.com and thiefware.com among others

When I enabled them (Disabled by default in 2505) they tied into Office XP like this. If it recognized a name on a page and you happened to have a similiar address in your contacts folder in Office XP it would have a pop up menu for it. Send this person a message etc. I think it is worthless but I am sure some great amount of Intranet developers will find some overly justified reason to absolutely HAVE TO HAVE it.

It is pointless from what I can see but it was turned off by default.

K