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Internet Explorer 5.2 is here!

Text smoothing Rocks!

Wow, I thought that the Quartz text smoothing would'ng be that much of a big deal, but damn, MacRumors.com has NEVER looked better than it does now. This **** actually works.

As for Omniweb, feel free to use it if you want to, but I will stick with IE. I have Mozilla on my computer, but don't see any reason to use it. IE works great for me, I have no problems with it, including accessing kerberos protected web sites, which I don't think Mozilla has support for the plug-in I need.

Anyway, Go Quartz Text Smoothing, Woot!
 
Originally posted by sjs
Alpha, you don't trust me? I am so hurt. And that remark about "protruding eyebrows"... I resemble that remark. Here I thought we were friends. I forgive you cause I know its just your yankee upbringing.:D
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Well, I wasn't calling you Bubba, Sparkey.

Yes, I am from up north, where the country started :p :D. There are also more then a few companies in my area that make products for the Mac you know... How many do you have down there?? :D
 
Re: Text smoothing Rocks!

Originally posted by peterjhill
Wow, I thought that the Quartz text smoothing would'ng be that much of a big deal, but damn, MacRumors.com has NEVER looked better than it does now. This **** actually works.

As for Omniweb, feel free to use it if you want to, but I will stick with IE. I have Mozilla on my computer, but don't see any reason to use it. IE works great for me, I have no problems with it, including accessing kerberos protected web sites, which I don't think Mozilla has support for the plug-in I need.

Anyway, Go Quartz Text Smoothing, Woot!
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Well, I will use IE for everything I am affraid except *cough* adult *cough* surfing because Mozilla can kill pop ups. I wish that IE had that ability.
Overall a good job my M$.
 
Wow, Let me just say again, the text smoothing is incredible. I just took a quick jaunt around the "Information Super Highway" ;-) and the difference is incredible. There is a night and day difference with the smoothing on vs. off.
 
I know you werent calling me Bubba, I was just identifying...

How many companies do we have down here that make stuff for Macs? Lets see...that would be zero, I expect. We're not exactly a bunch of non-conformists, you know.
 
Originally posted by peterjhill
Wow, Let me just say again, the text smoothing is incredible. I just took a quick jaunt around the "Information Super Highway" ;-) and the difference is incredible. There is a night and day difference with the smoothing on vs. off.
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Where do you turn it on and off? I couldn't see an option in the preferences for it?
Not that I'd ever want ot turn it off of course, I just wondered.
 
Originally posted by verbose101

Where do you turn it on and off? I couldn't see an option in the preferences for it?
Not that I'd ever want ot turn it off of course, I just wondered.
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Its in the Interface Extras section of Preferences in the Explorer menu.

IE 5.2 looks great, and so far I've had no spinning beach balls either!

Cheers,

Dobbin.
 
Originally posted by dobbin


Its in the Interface Extras section of Preferences in the Explorer menu.

IE 5.2 looks great, and so far I've had no spinning beach balls either!

Cheers,

Dobbin.
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Ah huh! I see it! I can't believe I missed that :rolleyes:

Thanks dobbin :)
 
Originally posted by dobbin


Its in the Interface Extras section of Preferences in the Explorer menu.

IE 5.2 looks great, and so far I've had no spinning beach balls either!

Cheers,

Dobbin.
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Your right! I just noticed that! Great news, and a great post. I did not realize that it wasn't doing it until you said something.
 
eek! :eek:
I just turned off QE text smoothing and it looked bloody awfull!
It was turned back on again faster than you can say 'quartz extreme' ! :D
 
Originally posted by verbose101
eek! :eek:
I just turned off QE text smoothing and it looked bloody awfull!
It was turned back on again faster than you can say 'quartz extreme' ! :D
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Looks fine either way for me, on or off. With it off, then fonts have thinner lines, which makes it all look more like 5.1. Since you can do it either way, it's one of those options that is up to your own personal prefernce.
 
Originally posted by Backtothemac


Your right! I just noticed that! Great news, and a great post. I did not realize that it wasn't doing it until you said something.
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No problems, its nice for a lurker like me with only 10 posts in 6 months to find something useful to say!

I find it so much easier on the eye that I have changed my display settings to a higher res!

Cheers.
 
great now I have to wait untill I get home to use it. Sounds nice though.

No harm being a Bubba SJS, I moved to Boston for five years and came right back to Nashville. Loved Mass, but Natick ain't exactly Metropolis, ALpha, oh well.:D
 
Quartz text smoothing. Yet another reason to stick with the undisputed leader in Mac web-browsing, IE. Good job M$!
 
Originally posted by sjs
Not to put too fine a point on it, but except for a very few exceptions, I cannot imagine why anyone would be using IE:

a) its MS...nuff said
b) it crashes more than every other mac program combined
c) OmniWeb and Mozilla are good enough to wean you off IE for 99% of tasks.

Who cares if they fixed a few leaks. Its garbage and you shouldn't be using it!!!
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Omniweb? It doesn't support dhtml (nearly all modern sites) and still doesn't support css fully. Other nuisances are it's way of using drawers. When I position and size a window, I don't want it to move when I open a drawer. IE has got that down pat.

And bookmarking in IE is a wonderful thing. Mozilla and netscape could take some lessons on this from IE. Customizing the the top bar and the folders of bookmarks across the top is great. And what is with the OS9 look and feel of mozilla? At least IE is trying to integrate OSX. Omniweb of course wins the OSX compatibility war, but on looks alone.

A little more rendering speed (although I can't tell the difference really) and some tabs and there would be NO reason to use anything but IE.

And I despise microsoft! But hey, when it works it works.
 
Originally posted by drastik
great now I have to wait untill I get home to use it. Sounds nice though.

No harm being a Bubba SJS, I moved to Boston for five years and came right back to Nashville. Loved Mass, but Natick ain't exactly Metropolis, ALpha, oh well.:D
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Never said it was... Bubba... :D

I don't go for large cities. In the six years since I moved back to MA, I have been into Boston about six times. I might need to go there from time to time for work, but that is all.

Natick started off as a nice Jewish town, hence the reason there are so many Chinese restaurants... Us Jews love to eat Chinese (actually we like all oriental women :D ;) ).
 
it looks like I'll be one of the last to catch the update...

I cannot do any X updates while at work since we still use OS 9...ugh...:rolleyes:
 
Personally I still use OmniWeb. Please, Please download OmniWeb 4.1 SP91 and use it for a week then use IE again and you will notice that OmniWeb is MUCH nicer in every area. OmniWeb has 100's of more features also. I am going to use IE more now that it has AA text though! ;)
 
someone mentioned that Mozilla kills pop ups? i've never heard of it before, but i'm guessing that Mozilla is a browser? no pop ups eh? where can i get it!!!!:D
 
Nice improvements..

Aside from the text smoothing, which i believe makes the text look just fantastic compared to before! Yippie. Anyway, I've also noticed that one web site whose java never seemed to work finally works.. Try www.fox2ktvi.com, they have a scrolling news thingie up in the right hand corner. Before, that never worked. Now, it works!!!

Christopher
 
and once again ie is the very LAST browser to inccorporate AA. ie is just so far behind its not funny.

and dont bother letting alpha know there is anything better. he is like the peecee user who refuses to look at mac. "its a mac" its a mac." as if the refrain means anything.

this is the way it has always been. those who know computers will search out the best solutions and those who dont will just use what is installed. but it looks very likely that 'what is installed' will change in august.
 
You know something AL... I never told people to NOT use any browser they chose to, just don't say that ie or netscape are crap and to avoid them like the plague. IF you want to use one of the others, fine, do so. Just don't go telling me that because I prefer to use a browser that displays ALL the pages I go to PROPERLY that I am "like the peecee user who refuses to look at mac". I have tried the FULL releases of the alternate browsers and honestly found them lacking.

Considering how it's all a matter of what you choose to use, the point is rather moot. You use what you want, and I will use what I want.

btw, AL, try to cut down on the novel length postings... You get more people to NOT read them when you do that.
 
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