[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[AEF]

On Jan 12, 6:43 pm, "Jeffrey H. Coffield"
<jeff... at digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:
> AEF wrote:
> > v   users performance
> > --- ----- ------------------
> > IE8 2250  had fewer problems
> > IE7 9055
> > IE6 1151
>
> > You say that there were fewer problems with IE8 than IE7, but only 1/4
> > as many are using IE8 as compared to IE7. Are the customer service
> > reps taking this into account? If not, it at least partly explains why
> > IE8 had fewer problems and it speaks rather poorly of IE6 as it has
> > only half the number of users IE8 has!
>
> > AEF
>
> That's a good point but that's all these guys do is hand hold users
> trying to order marketing materials and they have been a good source of
> down to earth info before. It surprised me how many had already gone to
> IE8, but then again I only fire up windows when I want to do a final
> check of web site changes under IE.
>
> Jeff

OK. It's still important to "normalize", as we call it in the physics
world.

>----o----<

I actually tried IE8 at work, hoping it would be better than IE6. But
it was blurrier on the monitor. I checked it on others' machines and
the blurriness varied, and all the monitors were ViewSonics. (I did
only check 2 or 3 others, but mine was blurrier than IE6 and that's
all that really mattered to me.) So I went back to IE6. And I did
check if you could do that before I tried IE8. It turns out that all
you have to do is uninstall it, except that a certain OS patch would
get in the way if you have it and you'd have to uninstall that first,
then reinstall after expunging IE8 from your machine.

I do have Firefox installed at work and I use that for some sites, but
others work better on IE6. Hate the spastic Find function in IE6, but
at least you can use it to highlight a link, or get near it with an
easier target and then tab to the link, and without the mouse just
press Return and it works! Safari can't do that, but Safari is better
with multiple choice items in forms and for printing. Safari puts all
the print params on a single page! I've never understood why all the
important things like page size, orientation, number of copies,
certain things on the Page Setup dialog box and such aren't all in one
place. WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY PUT THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE LIKE SAFARI
DOES? Arghhhh.

AEF