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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

AEF wrote:
> 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.
> 

Probably because there is nothing like 20-20 hindsight!