Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Koki on 18/9/2010 at 18:04

Are you talking about Opera or IE9 now?

Quote Posted by Bjossi

Let me guess, you're one of the sad losers still running Windows 98?

Well obviously? Can you name any other windows other than 98, Vista and 7? DUUUH?

Ulukai on 18/9/2010 at 19:32

Quote Posted by ZylonBane

No menu bar, and... a completely blank title area? WTF?

I haven't yet played around with it so I can't comment myself, but it sounds like they're trying to (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/09/15/user-experiences-site-centric-browsing-on-windows.aspx) remove the stuff they think people don't use.

Renzatic on 18/9/2010 at 20:17

Everything the menu bar offered has been consolidated into the gear menu on the far right. Print, file, internet options, and some other somewhat useful stuff is all right there, ready to hit if you so need. Basically everything but cut, copy and paste, but we all know only the sloppiest of sloppy fucks use the menu to do that.

ZylonBane on 18/9/2010 at 21:18

Quote Posted by Ulukai

Oh my god--

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Through the use of a glass frame, monochrome treatment of controls, and the back and forward buttons that take on the branding of the site icon, the browser visually recedes to the background.

Someone on the UI design team over at MS needs multiple punches in the face.

Muzman on 19/9/2010 at 01:47

So badly wishes it was Safari (circa 2005) and yet still screws it up (you can't halfway be a Mac desktop, Windows. They represent entirely different ways of concieving application space).

They really don't get this stuff. It was IE8's (I think) fairly radical changes that made all the little old ladies at my mum's church switch to Firefox en masse.
Maybe they're thinking ahead to kids who love that fluid post modernity. These days I'd think people mostly like to know where one application starts and another finishes, which part is the web site and which part is the browser.