Re: IE dehanced?

davegb wrote:
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Most frustrating of all, the toolbar itself. The button to add a
tab is a blank button. The icon only shows up if I hover over it!
What good is that?

I'm not sure what you mean.

Are you complaining because there is no icon there that says
"Click here to
open a new tab"? You know where to click - do you need a pretty
icon there
as well? After all - you have to 'hover' over it to click it...

I understand that, and as long as that's the only icon in that area,
that's ok. But if I ever figure out how to use all that waste space
between the New Tab icon and the Status bar, then there would be
more icons and I'd like to know which is which. What does hiding the
icon accomplish anyway?

That space is FOR the tabs and command bar... If you don't want to use the
tabs - disable them and then you can use that space just for the command
bar. You can add several things to the default command bar to take up all
that space if you desire. If you turn off tabs, however, I doubt you'll
ever fill up that space.

Also - you know that with my 24" widescreen, what you call huge, I would
call humongous. I don't consider it wasted space, however - I consider it
unused and less cluttered. ;-)

And the status bar toolbar is way over to the right,
with no apparent way to drag the toolbar over to the left, into
the huge gap of wasted space in the center of the toolbar area!!
What are they thinking?

"Status toolbar"? What are you referring to as the status toolbar?

The one MS calls the "Status Bar".

The status bar is the bottom bar.

I appreciate the help. I'm just very frustrated with all M$ products
lately, Seems to me that they're just playing a shell game with
their users. They move things for no apparent reason. Are the
recycle and stop buttons easier to use in the middle of the bar
than over on the left, where they've always been, where all
experienced users expect to see them?

I understand the frustration - but when you say 'experienced users' - it's
not really that to me. If you didn't want to change - don't use IE7
(there's no requirement to do so in XP.) Heck - you really do not have to
use IE at all (I mainly use FireFox myself.)

Everyone is different. People who mainly use keystrokes for things are in
the advantage right now. Sure - the Office 2007 interface and IE interface
is different - but if you hardly ever used the mouse - it makes no
difference. The same key shortcuts still function.

Also - what you see as different, many people didn't know really there was
any changes as they just started. ;-)

Going from Commodore VIC20s to Windows Vista with Macintoshes, *nix and many
other miniature GUI OSes (BeOS for example) in between, you learn *not* to
get used to much. ;-)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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