IE 7 - First Glance
I have just had a chance to play with the new IE 7, at last some features we have been waiting for for ages.
Tabbed Browsing
Not only is tabbed browsing now standard and easy to use, there is a cool feautre to enable you to jump to the right tab when you have quite a few open. When you click on the thumbnail icon in the toolbar you get mini screen shots of all fo the currently open tabs! Magic stuff.
I love the way Microsoft take an idea and expand on it to make it even better!
I love the way Microsoft take an idea and expand on it to make it even better!
RSS Feeds
Again, something we have been waiting for forever. The way this works is that when you visit a site with a feed available IE activates an RSS button on the toolbar. You click on the button and then subscribe to the feed, super simple.
I guess I miss not having this sort of function in something like outlook express but I guess that’s not too far off now.
You can get IE7 from here if you want to install it. The installation was simple, required a reboot, and the download was reasonably small for Microsoft, about 11 mb.