Renzatic on 16/9/2010 at 00:12
It's gottdamn fast, yo. Where hitches are elsewhere seen, what nary hitches in IE9. Fish test goes fast with thousand fishes. Neat Windows 7 intergration. So it's good. Cept for the UI. The UI is kinda stupid. You get a half inch worth of wasted pixels along the top edge, yet only get 2/3rds of the tab spaces given in other browers. And it looks cheap. This is dumb. Shameful, shameful Microsoft.
So what do I think in summary? Fast as slick duck shit, works great in W7, but dumb interface makes me go wot. At least with Firefox 4, you can move that big dumb orange button next to the tabs so it doesn't waste an entire horizontal row. Also you can make it green, or blue, or puce. You can't do this with IE9. There are no big buttons in IE9 with which to move.
This is my review of IE9.
Koki on 16/9/2010 at 12:07
Am I the only one who imagined Renzatic stepping away from microphone with a 'yo' and bowing when I finished reading?
(
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Windows_Internet_Explorer_9.png) Assuming that's it, it looks pretty decent, I dig the simple look, it's like using an iPad or something(Note: I have never used an iPad). Most important question is, can you force it to open windows instead of tabs?
ZylonBane on 16/9/2010 at 15:52
That UI looks like some godawful Romper Room shit. No menu bar, and... a completely blank title area? WTF?
Brian The Dog on 16/9/2010 at 17:46
I agree with ZB, I'd really struggle with that since it's not got a Menu bar. Opera took a while for me to set it up to look like a "normal" Win32 app, and I think this is going the same route. Also, what happens when you have 6 tabs open at the same time? Where are they shown?
Renzatic on 16/9/2010 at 18:49
Quote Posted by Brian The Dog
Also, what happens when you have 6 tabs open at the same time? Where are they shown?
The tabs will resize themselves once you have so many open. Provided you have a highish res widescreen monitor, you can fit eight or nine up there without it feeling too crowded ((
http://users.chartertn.net/greymatt/IE9_tabs.jpg) visual aid example here).
The new UI isn't terrible as far as base functionality is concerned. It's about as easy to navigate as Chrome or the new Firefox. The problem is it's sloppy on anything but 16:9 monitors. If you're on an yee olden tyme 4:3 setup, IE9 will be nigh unusable if you've got more than 3 tabs open. You can't move them to the blank space along the top, you can't set the menu bar there, you can't do anything with it. It just sits there, doing absolutely nothing and being of no use to anyone.
Someone at MS should've know that if they want to go as minimal as possible, they should put every inch of space they have available to good use. Otherwise it's just a pointless gesture. Sacrifices made without any beneficial gains.
Koki on 17/9/2010 at 20:41
So can you force it to open windows instead of tabs?
Renzatic on 17/9/2010 at 20:44
Yup. From the way things look from the settings menu, you can turn tabbed browsing off completely if you so wish.
Koki on 18/9/2010 at 09:40
Ha, Opera has that option too. It simply does absolutely nothing.
Well, it's Vista/7 only so I'll worry about that later. Much later.
Bjossi on 18/9/2010 at 16:37
Quote Posted by Koki
Well, it's Vista/7 only so I'll worry about that later. Much later.
Let me guess, you're one of the sad losers still running Windows 98?
Renzatic on 18/9/2010 at 17:27
Quote Posted by Koki
Ha, Opera has that option too. It simply does absolutely nothing.
It does something. I just hopped in and turned off the tabs. The address bar then took up the entire top row, I didn't have the "open link in new tab" option, and all links to external sites opened in new windows. That's about what you want, right?
