IE 6.5 Top Ten Features Wishlist | The Coffeehouse

jamie

<perfect world>

Available free for download
A NEW update to the award winning, industry leading Internet Explorer browser.

New Features including:

1 - better security

2 - the top ten css bugs fixed

3 - "Enable tabs - toolbar"

4 - Hi res WMF/EMF vector support featuring smaller file sizes than Flashtm vectors + PNG support

5 - Free auto-blog feature to msn communities - or choose your own destination publishing point ( rss enabled to any site - or at least most popular engines)

6 - MORE storage - integrated photo album button on toolbar - goes to communities = "nicely" kill google haha

7 - SMART Fullscreen ( you tell me.. as the new sp2 ver IS NOT full screen)

8 - IE Themes: Just as easily as you could change the scollbar colours - now that functionality is avaiable for the browser background, staus bar, all icons and borders! -Example:

......
scrollbar-track-color: #B5C7DD;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #999999}

menu-face color=
browser border=
button back= src ms_back.bmp
button ahead = src ms_ahead.bmp
etc
menu size=
staus visible =
staus size=
etc

9. ?

10. ?

* I tried to take everything into account across the board - tabs / png / css / gmail / themes / longhorn non-svg vectors ( wmf/emf) fullscreen done right and lastly - blog rss

im sure i missed some stuff let me know - but what im hoping is that everyone more or less - if they agree just posts ..like.. YES!

then ms would have a list to go on
not an unstructured argument again.. ( see - all other ie threads)

?

** for brevity - heres the top ten:

1   Over all security
2   CSS fixes - not all but some
3   Tabs support (enable through toolbar choice)
4   PNG / Vector wmf/emf support
5   Auto-Blog
6   Auto-Photo
7   SMART Fullscreen
8   IE Themes
9   ?
10 ?

jamie

9. faster FTP w/file reslove?

lars

I the Wiki is a good place to put this.

jamie

Was aiming for a simple top ten list
..pre-wiki

prefreably "definative" top 10
..you cant get feedback in wiki...
?

pacelvi
Phear

I"d like to see these additions to the Download Blocker, PopUp Blocker, etc.

Instead "Your computer is trying to do some vague thing"

I want (for popup blocker):

- User clicks Submit
- If at all possible detect if this action will result in PopUp windows and if so , ask, BEFORE sending the HTTP to the server,

"Clicking on that thing will result in Pop Up Window at [URL], Proceed?"

, otherwise ask the same question, note the useful URL indicator.

And for the download blocker "Website is attempting to download [FILE NAME.EXTENSION]" instead of "Let the website do what it wants?"

lars

Anyone can edit the pages on the Wiki. Just a thought since there already is an IE feedback section. Works both ways I suppose. Carry on... ^-^

billh
call -141

IE 7: Codename "Swiss Cheese". "Collander" would work, too.

jamie

10. Lock homepage?

* so if you make your homepage google or what ever and click the little "lock" icon - NO spyware can change it EVER Wink

about:blank - CoolWebSearch
no! www.google.ca
reboot
about:blank - coolwebsearch
no! www.google.ca
reboot
.....

arrg

so..>>>>>>>>

1   Over all security
2   CSS fixes - not all but some
3   Tabs support (enable through toolbar choice)
4   PNG / Hi-res Vector wmf/emf support
5   Auto-Blog - to msn communities
6   Auto-Photo - to msn communities
7   SMART Fullscreen
8   IE Themes (Simple css - like scroll bars)
9   Faster FTP with file resolve (like cuteFTP)
10 Lock Homepage (STOP alot of spyware)

..id be very happy anyway Smiley

ps - the reason i added hi res wmf is i wanted to make a site that, like Flash, expanded to any resolution. Built all using layers or tables using percents - it would be possible - problem is - i could find no suitable graphics format to this - and Flash - doesnt have the regular right mouse click properties flyout - like jpgs - so making a Flash anything a URL or mouseover script is next to impossible ( or its all gotta be flash.

Enter hi-res wmfs or emfs. These would scale without loss of resolution and would enable me to build the above scenario. Im a aware of SVG (plugin maddness) and other Longhorn based vectors. Hi res wmfs - would be fine for me - id actually use them for everything ( so long as the file size was comparable to Flash.

bsilby

I agree with this list of 10. They all seem reasonable to me. This should keep IE on top of the heap Smiley

Brent.

object88
amplify.

pacelvi wrote:
- User clicks Submit
- If at all possible detect if this action will result in PopUp windows and if so , ask, BEFORE sending the HTTP to the server,

There's no way to know what will come back from a submit, so this isn't technically possible.

jamie

bsilby wrote:
I agree with this list of 10. They all seem reasonable to me. This should keep IE on top of the heap

Brent.

Thanks brent. The more yays than nays the better the results
There is power in numbers folks - the more people that can find 3 or 4 features out of 10 that they like - the closer we are to a common concensus - the closer we are to ms will hopefully take us seriously

I think this list pretty much runs the gamut of features and fixes ive read everyone talking about

hey add some .. 11.? 12.?

* the thing with the wiki - is there no polling mechanism for feedback - sure you can delete someone else post and make your own - and change it back and fight! Wink

This is what user polling is for - it should be available on every thread - even as a quick click: Rate this Thread - Agree, Somewhat agree, Respectively Disagree, Interesting/Unsure

Id love to have a separate poll - within one thread, for every feature in that 10 list - Would make IE better? Would not make IE better?

anyway...the purpose of this thread is a pre-wiki - pretty close - we can live with this - feature/fix list for what i refer to as IE 6.5

otherwise thanks for humouring me Wink

Auto Blog Feature Correction:
** Fun Fun Fun on the Auto Blog
Maybe goes to your msn profile - not communities ( sort of same thing)

im sick of clicking on peoples msn profile and its user: wwerwetre no details
make a reason to use it

lars

I'll add one: Opera style page zoom.

jamie

/Lars - you mean like when an image is resized to fit - and you get an auto magnify glass? = one click - instead of a) having to turn the feature off under tools - or b) the 4 arrow icon - which can only be clicked to one zoom level (100%)

i agree - in both scenarios - the mozilla implimentation has got ie's beat

lars

IIRC Opera has a feature where the user can zoom in on a parth of the webpage. 100%, 200% etc and blow up that part of the page. Like a magnifying glass. I don't have Opera installed at the moment so I can't check. But that's basicly what I want. I've found it useful for pages targeted at lower resolutions where the images get really small on a larger screen. I'm sure it's a good thing for visually impaired people too.

/Lars

jamie

one more on the vectors -

MS - do you still have shares in Corel? ( i know they are private now)

Say what you like about that company - they have great programmers - and are familiar with XML

i was hoping maybe they could work with you on a format for vector - that seems less foriegn to the new ones being proposed ( svg - plugin - jaggy )

cmx / wmf / emf

hi res - smaller than flash - can include images
vector - OR images have auto-alphablend applied option ( for tuner skins - or desktop icons etc)

jamie

oh thats cool too - zoom a page - id use that

BruceLee

There are many cool features IE should have added but I think a small, clearn and fast browser is the best we should have. The additional features could be added by plugins and extensions. Firefox is a good sample.

jamie

...but firefox currently has MORE features than ie..

it does fullscreen correctly ( with plugin)
it has standards and css down
it has the zoom capability

all ie has going for it is the windows page rendering engine - or whatever the win equiv of geko is - i just dont like how moz renders in chunks = geko i presume

manickernel
anticipate consequences..

Intelligent Surf Recognition feature..
..after a short learning period such as in voice recognition of my personal preferences and habits IE could simply take me to the sites I want to go to without me having to go to the effort of clicking a mouse..it could read my mind, know the mood I am in, correct for the time of day. Hey! I would no longer have to engage myself by making any independent decisions... my browser would become an extension of my persona. It would know where I want to go today, even if I don't.

Wink

recoil

I say yay! to the list of ten. The added features futher along in the thread would make sense too. They should make a 6.5, since not everyone will move to Longhorn right away, and I am _sure_ that all of these are being considered in Longhorn right? Big Smile

Macaruchi

Something else missing.
A download manager.

ZippyV
Fired Up

Download manager was already in PDC version of Longhorn.

magundy

xero05

In response to #10 on your list, it is nearly impossible to lock your homepage forever. Spyware/Adware designers would be able to program their spyware/adware programs to unlock and hijack your homepage. Unfortunately, the truth hurts. Sorry. Expressionless

Xero

P.S.
What is with the version 6.5 mishigash? Why can't it just be Internet Explorer 7? Actually, it might help if Microsoft gave IE a different name like Sonicbrowse or something like that.

AndyC

jamie wrote:

1   Over all security
2   CSS fixes - not all but some
3   Tabs support (enable through toolbar choice)
4   PNG / Vector wmf/emf support
5   Auto-Blog
6   Auto-Photo
7   SMART Fullscreen
8   IE Themes

1 & 2, can't argue with either of those.

3,could happily live without it.
4, PNG alpha transparency needs fixing, wmf/emf are better replaced by Avalon.

5 & 6, don't see the need. The great strength of IE has always been it's minimalist approach. That was why it was always better than Netscape in the bad old days. I really don't want to see it weighed down with bloaty features.

7, well I'd argue it conflicts with 1. You can still run IE fullscreen if you want, but nobody can, and never should be able, to override it.

8. Themes suck. If you going to have theming capabilities it needs to be universal across the GUI, not based on individual applications.