Why I Hate IE7

Don't accuse me of jumping on the bandwagon - these are my own personal reasons for hating IE7...

1) The code view or Page > View Source: Why is it all in black text? I love Firefox's syntax colouring, you can't beat it for helping to debug/scan lines of code.

2) Why does my stylesheet work so perfectly with Firefox? I just write it as I would normally and it just works. In IE6 it quirks out and in IE7 it quirks out. I have to write a normal stylesheet and one for each of the dire IE6 and IE7 browsers! If Microsoft had just stuck to writing a browser that renders styles correctly there wouldn't be this waste of time hacking everything.

3) Anti-fishing. Great. Yes, there are people dumb enough to be suckered by phishing but when IE7 questions every single link and stops you going there it just becomes a right royal pain in the arse.

4) CTRL-F, Find on page... why does IE7 have a stupid floating box and not the slick, integrated search that FireFox has?

5) Downloads: No single download manager, just a load of scruffy individual boxes... 10 downloads? 10 windows to close.

Labels: browsers, tools