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

Joomla! CMS rolled in its 100,000th verified forum user yesterday. That's 100,000 users in just over 18 months and officially "Joomla! has the largest Open Source CMS focused forum on the planet."

Stats-wise the Joomla! forum has:

• An average of 172 new user sign-up each day
• 765,000 posts
• More than 1200 posts daily

There's even a funky Free Joomla! A3 poster to commemorate the ocassion.

Now if the next landmark can be just to get Joomla! 1.5 out of the door, that would be awesome.

Labels: CMS, news, open source, software, tools

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