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

[AEF]

On Jan 13, 10:07 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> 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!

OK, but it's been like this for years. So how long will it take for
non-Apple companies to catch on? Yeah, well. It's not the only such
thing.

AEF