Re: IE6 IE7 and FireFox

DamBogan wrote:
This FireFox seems to be quite popular with people who seem to think Microsoft should conform to somelses rules (why would they do that?)

Re conformance to the rules, I assume you meant to say "someone else's rules". First, the standards (rules) are established by the W3C, of which Microsoft is a key member, and Microsoft has done a lot to help define many of the standards, so the 'rules' can hardly be said to be someone else's. Second, the standards are intended to help make different browsers render pages consistently, and how is that objectionable?. And third, if you don't like the standards, you will hate IE7, because Microsoft has much improved its conformance with the rules.

but sort of lacks a few functions that I would call necessary, important, and perhaps even critical.
1, when I goto view the source, that is really just what I am doing... viewing the source, I cant edit it even if the page Im looking at is on my hard disk.

Which has nothing to do with Firefox.

2, when I want to download something, it starts its cute wee download box, which could be great if they did it right, and starts downloading to my default download directory. Nowhere along the way am I asked "Where do you want me to put this file?"

It works for me just fine. Take a little closer look at how you use FF, and what options it offers.

3, I cant send a webpage to my friend, I can send them a link, but not a full page with pictures and button and an interface and scripts and bells and whistles, just one line of text starting with http:// will do for FireFox thankyou.

I think that this is something being discussed for the future. Rome was not built in a day, and neither is a browser.

FireFox has done a good job of copying IE6's layout, the menus buttons are all in pretty much the same place, which I guess will give new converts to the product a sense of familiarity, but when even Microsoft moves onto something new for IE7, where does that leave FireFox?

Firefox's similarity to IE was exists to make it easier for people to migrate to it from IE. Other related browsers, e.g. Mozilla, are very different, even though they render pages the same. As for what IE7 is doing, well, a lot of the improvements are being borrowed from other browsers, including Firefox, and because Firefox is updated much more often than IE, if a really great feature appears in IE7, Firefox will be able to quickly adopt it.
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