Feedback not so good on IE7
Marketing Pilgrim have taken a look at the feedback the blogging world has produced about IE7. Most of it has appeared not so good. Although when I done my IE7 review a week after release I said the browser was an improvement over IE6 I did mention that the non-standard user interface could be very off putting to users who have the automatic upgrades enabled. Although Firefox tries to make their interface comfortable for migrating IE6 users, the interface in IE7 is drastically different.
Although I was fairly positive with IE7 when I did the review, I’ve recently had to use the browser fairly frequently over the past week (work related testing) I do find the flaws in IE7 a lot more apparent when it’s used alongside Firefox. Therefore, if I had used IE7 alongside Firefox when I had written my review I probably would have given IE7 a lower rating. Like their Zune, IE7 just appears to have been rushed out too early.
What I think they should have done is make a user interface for the XP version of IE7 that fits in with the XP user interface standards and left the new look to Vista. Their best bet for XP would have been to resemble the look of IE6 as much as possible but with the addition of tabs.