Now this is some pretty funny stuff. The guys over at IEBlog want to brag about Internet Explorer 7 having tabbed browsing, almost every other person that comments seems to be more worried about Internet Explorer fixing how it actually reads Web sites.
Personally I’d say the second is a little more important for a Web browser.
As a semi-Web designer, meaning I have done a layout once or twice here and there. I am far from an expert but not close to being a newbie. With that aside though, the reason I switched to Firefox was because Firefox just handles Web site coding better. Tabbed browsing is great, but I want IE to be able to handle basic Web standards for a change. Personally I’m tired of making a change to a Web site then having to check it in five different browsers to make sure I put all the “tricks” in there to make it look right.
When somebody writes a book, do they have to write several different versions so that every person can read it? No. So why should browsers and Web standards be any different? Now I’m not going to beat up on Microsoft too much. The reason I do it though is because I don’t want to see Internet Explorer 7 being all flash and no substance. Wow a built in pop-up blocker, extensions and tabbed browsing while using IE’s crappy engine. That is already around, and it’s name is Maxthon.
I’d really like to use Internet Explorer again, but I have yet to find one thing to really get excited about. It seems right now Microsoft is looking away from innovation and more towards playing the catch up game.
