(Our home-grown online course platform, however, works just fine. [I work at a university.] That’s what you get for paying millions of dollars for something you’ve already got. Stupid administration.)

Drag 1DeleteMe into and out of Folders and it will be gone on the first drag but not neccessarily so. It may disappear on the second or third drag operation.

Can anybody replicate?

I migrated all of my Favorites to Firefox and it has some quirks but I then realized those quirks were simply doing something a bit differently. Like creating a new folder in the Bookmarks collection feels quirky until you learn it is a two step operation.

Firefox sure seems so much easier to use than IE and of course is quite easily extensible.

I’ll still need IE7 because it installs the Windowss RSS Platform which is not otherwise available unless running Vista but I’m using Firefox more and more on a daily basis and all that I really need to go full-time is a way to synchronize Bookmarks with Favorites.

Isn’t it ironic? Microsoft’s SyncToy will synchronize Bookmarks and Favorites but some process must transform the format when synchronizing.

On the other hand, we’re making heavy use of CSS that contain IE6 hacks. I have to review them, I hope mostly remove all of them and get a nice display for the future.

Anybody share my faith?

Good day.

I like managing favorites in Firefox using the Manage Boookmarks item in the Bookmarks menu. I just checked and low and behold IE has added that to IE7 too. It’s under the star with a plus sign icon. They could have made it much more intuitive but it is there for organizing your favorites. I don’t know if it’s as effective as the one in Firefox but it’s much better than IE6.

I’ve played with it a little more and most sites are ok. I’ve seen some really bad renderings, mostly of sites built in .NET using MS Visual Studio .NET. That’s ironic ;-)

I’m a confirmed Firefox fan so it’s a hard call whether I’ll switch but I sure hope they cram it down everyones throat as a critical update. (What the heck? Did I just say that?)

Hands down, it’s a much better browser than 6!

Andrew

DO NOT TRY TO DRAG AND DROP FAVORITES

IE7 deletes Favorites when dragged and dropped. Furthermore, this POS IE7 still has the same bug since IE4 that prevents saving a Favorite by dragging the icon of a URL from the address bar into a Favorites folder. IE complains that the page title is too long — but we could save that same URL unmodified by going to Favorites > Add to Favorites on the toolbar.

So the only work around requires using Favorites > Add to Favorites right? Then what kind of surprise do we get? Some Microsoft moron altered the code to force open all Favorite folders already expanded. This makes scrolling to try to find a folder nearly impossible for those with large collections of Favorites.

Furthermore, when using Favorites > Add to Favorites with IE7 the entire collection of Favorites may not even be shown so it is now impossible to save a Favorite.

USE THE IE7 VIRUS AT YOUR OWN RISK

Why do *we* have to be prepaired for *IE7*

If it’s supposed to be so damn good, why are there a whole new set of issues that developers need to deal with?

If your site is written in pure-blooded pedigree HTML, you shouldn’t need to prepare at all for IE7, you’ve already done that.

If your site is written in a cross-bred mongrel of hacks and bodges, it’s not surprising if it doesn’t work in a browser that follows the rules. If IE7 still allowed all these hacks to work, it would be no better than what went before – and we all know how bad that would be!