Monday mornings
For once I've woken up this morning and not felt like someone has just let off a bomb inside my head. Yes world, I'm actually awake and with it. Usually I am half asleep as I can never sleep on Sundays but last night I managed to get off before 1am and I was back out of bed at 7am. Woo yay! Although I'm sure some of you out there will be laughing at me thinking "yeah that's a walk in the park dickhead", I can assure you that I get about that much sleep EVERY night and come Sunday I am just over-tired and can never actually get to sleep even though I am exhausted. So bite me.
It's sunny here this morning, which would be great except for the fact it feels like it's -5 degrees outside. The wind has a worse bite that pit-bull with your hand crushing it's bollocks. Speaking of things that don't seem what they are; has anyone actually installed the IE7 Beta? I did over the weekend even though I am now 99.9% just using Debian as my OS. I thought I better have a look at it considering what I do for a living I have to constantly keep an eye on all browsers and how they render pages. Well I must say I think I have seen IE7 BEFORE. It's called Mozilla. 
The tabbed browsing is childlike compared to Mozilla and of course the search is placed in just the same place as Mozilla's and yes you can add more providers, um, just in the same way Mozilla does; complete with the SAME LAYOUT on the page you do that. The first bug I found with the search though has some interesting err side effects. In Mozilla, when I choose to search the new evil known as Google I get redirected to the .co.uk domain and so get more relevant results demographically speaking. Well IE7 just takes me to the .com domain and that's it. Strictly speaking it's not a bug but it does, under-the-table, restrict the neatness of results from Google. Is this something done on purpose? Or just an oversight on M$ developers end? Anyway, the other rather striking problem is font weights. IE7 renders font weights a lot heavier than every other browser and it actually makes my home monitor look like a LCD flats screen, in short: UGLY! Yes they have managed to fix a few of the CSS bugs which now requires EVERY developer to now run around trying to think of a way to hack the hack to make sure it works in the fixed IE7, the broken IE$foo and the now unsupported MacIE. I've not really messed with it further than that but I intend to have a good bash this evening.
Edit: Let's re-phrase! I intend to have a deeper look in to the new IE7 broswer to see what qwirks it has and so on... Heh!
