I downloaded the RC1 a while ago but decided to use it today for some unknown reason.

Is it just me or is it really cool?? I like it so much that I dont think ill be using firefox from now on, or maybe untill ffox 3.5 comes out.

It looks, feels, and works amazingly.

In ie7 whenever i opened a new tab there would be lag, from the time of opening a new tab to the time I actually see it, which would drive me insane.
No troubles in ie8 as of yet and ive been using for about 2 hours now.

Your guys thoughts?

Josh Wrote:I downloaded the RC1 a while ago but decided to use it today for some unknown reason.

Is it just me or is it really cool?? I like it so much that I dont think ill be using firefox from now on, or maybe untill ffox 3.5 comes out.

It looks, feels, and works amazingly.

In ie7 whenever i opened a new tab there would be lag, from the time of opening a new tab to the time I actually see it, which would drive me insane.
No troubles in ie8 as of yet and ive been using for about 2 hours now.

Your guys thoughts?

I haven't used IE8 yet, but this brings to mind a conversation I once had with a woman who had worked at developing software before. In brief, companies are profit driven, and it is always less profitable to write new software, rather than build on top of existing software. I assume this is probably much of the reasoning behind the abysmal failures of IE, that it was created when standards and development practises didn't exist like they do today, and added to again and again until its performance lacked to the extent that the browser starts to lose market share. There's really no way to tell how much of this generation of IE has been from scratch. For all we know, there may still be code from IE 1.0 in there.

I looked briefly at the features in IE8 when I tested Windows 7 a while back, and yes, lots of the features are pretty cool. But I'm not so sure that things such as Web Slices will be adopted so heavily, as I gather from this image that many of them require that people actually change their site to make use of the features.

So the question becomes, is it likely that the majority of sites will change to adopt IE specific features, or will they favour a more inclusive approach? If the features aren't widely adopted it will probably be because Microsoft won't allow other browsers to implement features that are in IE.

Quote:It looks, feels, and works amazingly

Oh, you mean like Google Chrome?



Haven't used IE8 yet, doesn't seem that long ago that IE7 came out, so if IE8 is new code from the ground up that would be impressive...

Nothing wrong with some good competition...

P4 Wrote:Nothing wrong with some good competition...

So true, yet it's always the case that the best isn't the most popular (Opera) and the worst are mainstream (IE < v8, Firefox).

I don't particularly like IE but this comment is total rubbish:

Quote:and it is always less profitable to write new software

I work for a decent sized software company and I can tell you that it's legacy applications that kill companies, and a huge chunk of the time it's more profitable to scrap your old junk and start with something decent.

I was going to commend you for not turning this into another Opera spam thread but looks like your last post did it. Maybe next time aye?

I find chrome a little buggy at times. crashing every so often.
ie8 works like chrome in the fact that each tab is its own running process, when one tab crashes you just close it and reopen a new tab and it will tell you about your recently opened tabs then your back where you were before.

two_days_late Wrote:I don't particularly like IE but this comment is total rubbish:

Quote:and it is always less profitable to write new software

I work for a decent sized software company and I can tell you that it's legacy applications that kill companies, and a huge chunk of the time it's more profitable to scrap your old junk and start with something decent.

Legacy applications do kill companies, but it's usually the case, especially where smaller software companies are concerned, that it's less time consuming and more profitable to build over your existing software and push it out as an upgrade. When you start developing from scratch, the cost for actually planning what you're going to do and considering backwards compatibility are often way too high for some to even consider, so it's usually the case that you add to the current software and hope that it works enough that people won't complain.
That's the theory behind my comment, and perhaps it doesn't apply to your software company and others, though I suppose it might depend on what type of software the company actually makes. I suppose 'always' is a bit of an exaggeration if you take it literally.
I can still remember some article I saw a while ago mentioning a dialogue window for adding fonts in Windows Vista that hadn't been changed since Windows 3.

And concerning Opera, you might try directing your concerns to Opera Software for making a browser that is worth the effort.

I was using IE8 Beta 2 on my PC and found it to be really slow and annoying. to the point that I had to revert back to IE7.

I have since re-upgraded to RC1 and have foudn that after turning off suggested search it works great. Really good how only 1 tab crashes at a time now (non sarcastic).

P4 Wrote:Google Chrome

P4 Wrote:mean

On a serious note however,
people need to realise that
every browser has pros and cons
rather than make inflammatory remarks,
a better solution would be to use the browser which you think
is the best.
some may disagree, but i will
gladly prove there points to be
absolute nonsense, because we can solve this issue without
yelling for attention.