Internet Explorer 7 Released
For those of you that don’t know, Microsoft have released Internet Explorer 7. Although I prefer Firefox to IE, I do have to admit that there are some nice features in it. Of course, one of those — tabbed browsing — has been available to users of Firefox and most other browsers for some time now. However, for reading pages and making web sites look nicer there’s no doubt that IE 7’s anti-aliased text comes into its own. Hope Firefox has this in the next update.
Otherwise, it’s still probably typically Microsoft and likely full of security holes, so for all you techies out there an Internet Explorer Blog is available here. Hats off to whoever registered ie7.com as a domain name and used it to push Firefox. Not sure if I’ll switch more to IE7 now although I am looking forward to the release of Microsoft Vista, but for sure I’ll try it out if only so I get nicer looking fonts onscreen.
Internet Explorer is available for download here. Firefox 2.0 and Thunderbird 1.5 can be downloaded here.
Strange, now I view this post in Firefox and can compare the screenshot with the rest of this page, anti-aliased text doesn’t seem such a big deal after all. Bound to be back with Firefox in a few days if not sooner.
Comment by Onnik — November 21, 2006 @ 9:46 pm
If you want the same effect for fonts as in IE7, simply enable the clear type effect in ‘display properties/Appearance tab/Effects button/enable Use the following method… and select Cleartype’.
I was impressed with the IE7 font display. I uninstalled it a couple of days later but missed the font effect. So I changed the effect to Cleartype for the WinXP.
Everything looks much better now.
Comment by nazarian — November 22, 2006 @ 3:59 am
Oh yeah. Thanks for that. Definitely back to Firefox now.
Comment by Onnik — November 22, 2006 @ 8:48 am