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Internet Explorer 8 Final is out! |
yea g
Joined: Jul 02, 2008
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I installed it but I really can't live without my firefox addons. For me it ended up the same place as google chrome, the recycle bin.
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Daedalus85
Joined: Apr 23, 2007
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On 2009-03-21 01:22:44, fatreg wrote:
as a result as an IE user you will get formatting errors, text not displaying properly, colours not right etc etc, page loading time does vary, I can visit the same website in Safari and in Firefox and I can assure you Safari will gather data and display it quicker than firefox every time.
See, I had this argument with my degree lecturer when he insisted our web coursework had to be written to be compatible in Firefox, and when I refused, I wrote a written explination on said website. The vast majority of the world still uses IE, so the vast majority of websites are written for it.
I've never had 'formatting errors', 'text not displaying properly' or 'colours not right', so I wouldn't know what these apparent errors look like lol 
If it 'aint broke, don't fix it, and IE has been fine for me since, well, forever. I'm very 'anti-firefox' and 'anti-apple' to most extents, because I can't see the point in alot of it lol, IE has always worked for me, I know my way around it quite welll and I know what to do if something goes wrong.
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Nanu
Joined: Feb 18, 2006
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@Daedalus
You really do have a different perspective on things mate, the whole reason I struggle to build my website and give up from time to time is because of IE, what I can get to look absolutely perfect in Firefox, safari and chrome looks like crap in IE, then it gets above my head when I have to start writing exceptions in the script for IE to display it properly. For me the fact that it is the most popular browser MS should have addressed the issues years ago, I only use IE for online banking as my bank insist upon it, for anything else I use Firefox as IE is just way too slow!
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QVGA
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apart from some interface differences this is still the same as IE6. both are just incredibly shitty.
IE feels like a huge crane moving while firefox is like a tiny sports car.
on pretty much every page i open, it says 'error on page' down at the bottom. this happened in IE6, 7 and 8 as well. because of this many a times there is some content that never loads. made for IE my ass!
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laffen
Joined: Aug 07, 2001
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Have you tried this this with Chrome? http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
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whizkidd
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Yes, tried it out yesterday.. 
T230 >> T610 >> Ngage QD >> N73 >> N85 >> Omnia HD >> And countless other review units |
yea g
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The coolest thing ever
http://experiments.instrum3nt.com/markmahoney/ball/#
and guess what? It doesn't work with IE
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HornyNick
Joined: Mar 09, 2008
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Can someone please check www.more4pubquiz.com please?
It was running fine yesterday, today I install IE8 and all i get "cannot display this page" |
whizkidd
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On 2009-03-22 06:40:02, HornyNick wrote:
Can someone please check http://www.more4pubquiz.com please?
It was running fine yesterday, today I install IE8 and all i get "cannot display this page"
Nah its not IE8. The site is down I guess.. not workin from here as well.
T230 >> T610 >> Ngage QD >> N73 >> N85 >> Omnia HD >> And countless other review units |
HornyNick
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Ok thanks.
Just a coincidence then. |
gaming_guy
Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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On 2009-03-22 06:40:02, HornyNick wrote:
Can someone please check http://www.more4pubquiz.com please?
It was running fine yesterday, today I install IE8 and all i get "cannot display this page"
seems to be ok for me (in FF) today
K700i > K750i > K810i (current phone)
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HornyNick
Joined: Mar 09, 2008
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Yeah, I just been on and its back up.
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HornyNick
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Right! Thats it, I've had enough.
I'm going back to v7. 8 really is annoying, the only good thing about is the favourites bar.
For some reason 8 really hates Facebook it takes ages before I can get on, it loads up the top and bottom bars then thinks it is done. I have to refresh the pages ages before it finally decides to do it properly. |
HornyNick
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I cant downgrade to IE7! On the Micrsoft website it just says "You already have IE7. It is included with Vista, the OS you are using" There are no links for me to re-download it.
The only option I have is to download IE7 for XP. Will this work ok woth Vista? |
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