I really had high hopes for IE. First of all they’re taking the community seriously, they’re talking with open-source project leads and they’re doing their best trying to repair the mess created by not sticking with standards (unfortunately this means a lot of extra “bug fix” bug-fixing for us webdevelopers but that’s alright).
Some of the things I’m really struggling with are:
what were they thinking when they designed the UI?
I had the beta installed for about 2 hours and then I quickly jumped back to the less painful IE6 which i only use for testing anyway.
What good is a zoom function if it zooms the content of your site off screen?
I zoomed in and the content of a number of sites zoomed right off screen. Does not seem like the desired effect. Big off-screen text is not more readable than on-screen tiny text. A 10 for effort, 1 for implementation.
Stimulate trust
Messages during installation that say “Running Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool…” does not win my trust. Does this mean that Microsoft actually installed malicious software on my machine before?
Some random feedback from del.icio.us
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer gets a facelift. Unfortunately, it’s a train wreck. The UI is a jumble of random buttons – once again Microsoft is trying too hard to do too much. It’s a browser, not the space shuttle.
Next they will be explaing it is becasue they all went blind and got kids to do it.
Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?
With all Microsofts resources they’ve got to be able to do better.
