Internet Explorer 9 BETA for IT Professionals (#IE9) – a guest post by Simon May

re: Internet Explorer 9 BETA for IT Professionals (#IE9) – a guest post by Simon May

Tim — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:58:13 GMT

It took a while to work out how to make the 'one box' a useable width - drag <em>between</em> its right hand border and the adjacent tab. Haven't worked out how to get multi-line tabs yet though, so this work-around is only partially successful.

I'm surprised at how wasteful the design is spacewise (especially given the contrariwise claims). What is the point of the blank title bar? - I would prefer it if tabs remained on their own line(s), and bring the min-max-close buttons down (leaving a thin bar at the top for moving non-maximized windows).

Titles seem to have been lost altogether - why not have them as a one-box tooltip?

Integration with Windows 7 UI works well.

re: Internet Explorer 9 BETA for IT Professionals (#IE9) – a guest post by Simon May

Si May — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:47:08 GMT

Hi Dave,

Glad you like it, I think it's super but some would say I'm biased XD . As were in Beta it's possible that we'll see some more stuff but that's an engineering decision for the IE team (they have a great post on the logo today by the way that's worth a look http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/). They've made some great progress with CSS3 (selectors was a problem and they've got that licked).

re: Internet Explorer 9 BETA for IT Professionals (#IE9) – a guest post by Simon May

Dave — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:37:28 GMT

Ie9 is looking great and looks good with some web dev stuff, impressive so far but needs more work and testing done and it will be finaly one of the best browsers. But please dont forget the shadow CSS stuff, this makes a great visual difference which needs to added.