Comments on: 5 things ie8 got right

By: Kahor

Kahor — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:57:28 +0000

It’s funny I don’t see
# Search with google
# Map with google map
How easy is it to customize it for other non microsoft tools and remove the default ones ?
I wish people would stop trying to make decision for me, or AT LEAST pick the most used/efficient tools, not just the one you wish I’d use.

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By: Justin (rawseo)

Justin (rawseo) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:02:06 +0000

@EL:

Thanks for the links.

By: EL

EL — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:09:50 +0000

As you mention, Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT – Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

Bundling Accelerators into IE8 makes a lot of sense. Selection-based search is really helpful. One GREAT feature of KallOut which you don’t mention is BestGuess. The challenge with selection-based search is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. Itâ€™s a little clunky once you get more than two or three. KallOut does a super job figuring out which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout — Accelerators for Firefox is actually kind of spooky when it works so well.

Check it out! I agree that it’s a big step forward for the user to have the selection-based search bundled into the browser by default, however.

See KALLOUT – Accelerators for Firefox — http://bit.ly/vJKbW

-EL

By: Justin (rawseo)

Justin (rawseo) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:34:37 +0000

@biggieG:

Even if they are borrowed from other browsers, it is still a step in the right direction.

By: BiggieG

BiggieG — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:20:02 +0000

All those features have been ruipped off from other browsers, so it’s nothing that MS got right.

By: Justin (rawseo)

Justin (rawseo) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:52:30 +0000

I think Microsoft just figures you can use IE7 emulation mode to check out your websites in IE7. The problem I have is that they aren’t exactly the same.

By: Justin (rawseo)

Justin (rawseo) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:48:07 +0000

I just installed it on my vista laptop with IE7 and it replaced it. You might want to install it in a VM.

By: racy_rick

racy_rick — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:45:51 +0000

I usually lag behind releases just to make sure our web pages work with everything (I’m still on firefox 2, safari 2, chrome, and have ie 4,5,6 and 7 running). Does ie8 replace all of the ie7 stuff or does it keep it installed?