24th May 2006, 4:59 PM
Netscape's later upgrade came at the cost of scrapping ALL the code that came before and starting the Mozilla project, and then taking the results of that project to create the new Netscape.
By the way, they did add tabbed browsing to IE, among a number of other features, and they even have your precious "create tab" button right there on the tab bar. They seem to be imitating Firefox with the look.
Wow, and to think Wii is considered a bad name. SeaMonkey? Seriously? Why not just be honest and call it brine shrimp?
Back to IE, it has it's issues, but I'm really just too lazy to update a whole new browser with the plugins I'd like, not that many even... It would be nice to have a "universal plugin interface" standard implemented some day... I will say IE7 does a lot right, but there are still certain features I want implemented. The archaic design of the "custom settings for specific web pages" system they have needs to be completely overhauled. That whole "security zones" thing may have seemed like a good catagory system at the time, but I've never bothered using it and network admins just set up a proxy in businesses anyway to determine what sites are safe and what aren't. Better to scrap that and allow full customizing on one massive list, and if you want to catagorize, you can make your own, as many as you want.
But more than just security settings for each site (catagory as it stands now, but it should be updated to per-site as I suggested) and cookie settings per site (at least they have that right), it is about time a browser let you customize PLUGIN settings for each site. I want to disable Flash and Shockwave for all sites except the ones I allow. IE does let you disable flash at your leisure now, but it is a little clunky to use as of yet. I've seen ones with buttons that let you disable flash at a single click, and that's almost what I want. But, the best would just be to remember my settings per web page (well, domain actually, but that's already the case with the cookie setup so it should be a simple enough thing). And, it should all be accessible from a big shiny "security settings for this page" button right there on the tool bar. I've seen a lot of browsers do cookies like IE and per site security settings better than IE, but I've yet to see any do per site plugin settings.
The only other issue is that IE7 is only going to be released on XP and Vista, while competing browsers are on EVERY OS worth mentioning, but oh well, with all of them imitating each other as well as working towards net standards, I'll be fine just using "whatever".
By the way, they did add tabbed browsing to IE, among a number of other features, and they even have your precious "create tab" button right there on the tab bar. They seem to be imitating Firefox with the look.
Wow, and to think Wii is considered a bad name. SeaMonkey? Seriously? Why not just be honest and call it brine shrimp?
Back to IE, it has it's issues, but I'm really just too lazy to update a whole new browser with the plugins I'd like, not that many even... It would be nice to have a "universal plugin interface" standard implemented some day... I will say IE7 does a lot right, but there are still certain features I want implemented. The archaic design of the "custom settings for specific web pages" system they have needs to be completely overhauled. That whole "security zones" thing may have seemed like a good catagory system at the time, but I've never bothered using it and network admins just set up a proxy in businesses anyway to determine what sites are safe and what aren't. Better to scrap that and allow full customizing on one massive list, and if you want to catagorize, you can make your own, as many as you want.
But more than just security settings for each site (catagory as it stands now, but it should be updated to per-site as I suggested) and cookie settings per site (at least they have that right), it is about time a browser let you customize PLUGIN settings for each site. I want to disable Flash and Shockwave for all sites except the ones I allow. IE does let you disable flash at your leisure now, but it is a little clunky to use as of yet. I've seen ones with buttons that let you disable flash at a single click, and that's almost what I want. But, the best would just be to remember my settings per web page (well, domain actually, but that's already the case with the cookie setup so it should be a simple enough thing). And, it should all be accessible from a big shiny "security settings for this page" button right there on the tool bar. I've seen a lot of browsers do cookies like IE and per site security settings better than IE, but I've yet to see any do per site plugin settings.
The only other issue is that IE7 is only going to be released on XP and Vista, while competing browsers are on EVERY OS worth mentioning, but oh well, with all of them imitating each other as well as working towards net standards, I'll be fine just using "whatever".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)