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Internet Explorer 8?
#257609 04/21/09 10:37 AM
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Anyone using IE8 yet? Any thoughts?

It doesn't look like they have a speil chek yet. I might just stick with FireFox....


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MarkSJohnson #257613 04/21/09 12:34 PM
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I've been using it on the laptop for about a week, so far so good. The only problem I've seen so far is if you click on a link which opens another window for that new page, it seem to take forever for the new window to open and page to display.


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Murph #257615 04/21/09 12:55 PM
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Because they eventually had to land the black helicopters.

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MarkSJohnson #257619 04/21/09 01:13 PM
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Re: Internet Explorer 8?
MarkSJohnson #257620 04/21/09 01:18 PM
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 Originally Posted By: MarkSJohnson
Anyone using IE8 yet? Any thoughts?

It doesn't look like they have a speil chek yet. I might just stick with FireFox....


Ha! Firefox user here. Same problem.

I tried IE8 last week and was chugging along with it thinking, "hmm, this isn't so bad," when I came across the lack of the auto spell check. I hadn't even realized how often I use that in my daily postings here and in other places. I'm positive that there's an add-in spell checker somewhere for IE8, but I didn't feel bothered to go find it. I'm happily back to Firefox.

Regarding Microsoft...

I'm a long-time Windows user and application designer/developer. Years and years and years. I'll even defend Vista to some degree. But about a month ago my wife bought herself a Macbook Air. It pains me to admit it, but I actually really like the stupid thing. After about 5 minutes of "where's the damn control panel" ranting, I got over it and it started to make sense. So much so I've found myself looking at Macbook Pros as a possible replacement for my Dell notebook...


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Re: Internet Explorer 8?
MarkSJohnson #257751 04/22/09 11:36 AM
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Mark (et al), I've been using a little IE add-on called ieSpell for years. It's free, fast, unobtrusive, spyware-free, and adware-free. There does seem to be one glitch with IE8 in that, when it comes upon a misspelled word, it fails to highlight the word in the text. So far, that hasn't bothered me too much because the misspelled word is shown in the ieSpell box. I've reported this bug and I suspect (hope) they will fix it before long.


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Ajax #257755 04/22/09 11:52 AM
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Thanks Jack!

Part of my reason for wanting to go to a different browswer is that on this, my newest of computers, I have to close and reopen IE 3~5 times just while reading the boards here (I haven't had problems with any other sites at all).

It just frequently hangs as if it were waiting for a response from Axiom, yet if I close IE and then reopen, all is fine. I was just going to go to FireFox as I used it on my old computer and I miss the spell check, when I saw that IE had a new version....


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MarkSJohnson #257756 04/22/09 11:58 AM
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Yes, I, occasionally, have a problem with IE and the Axiom forum. It's especially frustrating because it's intermittent. Most of the time everything works fine. But, now and then, I can't get a page to open. The little green line just slowly crawls to about half way and then it just sits there.

Or, when I try to submit a post, it does the same thing. I usually have to close IE, wait a bit, and then come back to the forum. Fortunately, I've found that my post has gone through and I don't have to redo it. This is the only site with which I experience this.


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So Jack and I are now in agreement: The problem is not with us! \:\)


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