New Version of Internet Explorer

topic posted Thu, July 31, 2008 - 1:01 PM by  Lori
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The public library has 'upgraded' to a newer version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is nice that this version offers the 'tabs' feature I had come to like in Firefox, but it also offers some value-subtracted features. Two value subtracted features that I have noticed concern how the '<u>F</u>ile|Save <u>A</u>s' feature is implemented. First the default format is the proprietary .mht (Microsoft MHTML) format. This conveniently packages the graphics, framed pages and the like into one file, but is unreadable by 2.0.0.1. Next library trip I shall check to see if a more recent Firefox is available. The new IE offers the option of saving as HTML, but the resulting files no longer identify the original URL. This is a major headache when I would like to add a link to a "to do" list (see geocities.com/n8chz/webtodo/ ), but the file which is the source of the link uses relative addressing for internal links. Another annoyance is encountered during offline reading of .mht files on IE 5.00.2920.0000. Displaying these files really slows it down, and right mouse operations such as '<u>C</u>opy shortcut' (of central importance for creating 'to do' lists) tend to 'blank out' display of larger files.
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Lori
Detroit
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