A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
Summary: Check out the many interfaces of Internet Explorer versions 1 to 9
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Messenger moves into the toolbar in Internet Explorer 5.5.
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RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
Most of my memories with IE7 were more nightmarish, when we found most IE6 "optimized" sites started falling like leaves on Autumn. Then came all the pop up blocker stuff and finally all the problems with the CSS hacks.
As much as MS wants us to hate IE6, no current feature makes "upgrading" compelling, albeit in the end most will either do that or switch to other browsers.
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
Upgrading not compelling? Anything is better than IE6. In order to better support Firefox and other browsers, nearly all websites are now supporting standards based browsers anyways, and that means that IE8 works fine.
The days of "IE6 optimized" websites are over, as far as I can tell. Internal corporate networks may still use it, but I haven't seen a public website touting "IE6 optimized" in a long time.
I'm sure they may still exist - but they've long since fallen off my radar, as most of them are rather useless now. They don't get updated, so might as well make a permanent copy of them. Printing to PDF usually works.
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
(In fact, my ISP's account management website not only rejects Opera categorically, it advises me to get a "modern" browser - like IE or *Netscape*...)
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
Where is Al Gore when you need him
Ah yes . . .
And Active Desktop, the beginning of the worst decision Microsoft ever made: To actually integrate IE deeply into Windows.
I'd mark that as the beginning of people (including myself) really hating Internet Explorer. Before then, it was just competition for Netscape. The first of Microsoft's really nasty moves, which wouldn't be reversed until IE7.
And ah, yes, IE6. Microsoft, fully satisfied that they had killed Netscape and the rest of the competition, basically seemed to have pledged to stop updating IE forever.
That wouldn't change until a Phoenix rose out of the ashes of Netscape and became Firefox, which would outwit IE6 and show how much the Internet could really improve.
With Firefox taking market share from IE6 constantly and eventually rising to a very respectable percentage of the total Internet, Microsoft basically had to start updating IE again. IE7 and IE8 bought IE much closer to standards compliance, and it looks like IE9 will pay attention to performance as well.
Hopefully, Microsoft can earn some respect back. Hopefully. Right now, there's still a lot of hate for IE and the really bad things Microsoft did with it in the past.
The only big question mark right now with IE9 is the interface. I really hope that Microsoft does [b]NOT[/b] tack on the interface from the previous versions onto the new one. Google Chrome and Firefox beta are both showing that minimalistic, lightweight interfaces work great on a browser. IMO Microsoft should really take this opportunity to overhaul their UI as well as their engine.
You forgot IE 5.5 SP2 disabled Plugins
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
just click on the picture...
RE: Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 9
photo recovery