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Old 03-17-2007, 09:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can anyone recommend one of these, preferably with the capability of subscribing to podcast feeds too? I understand IE 7 has this feature built in, but I tried this version of IE and it brought my ancient PC to its knees!

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Old 03-18-2007, 02:08 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Can anyone recommend one of these, preferably with the capability of subscribing to podcast feeds too? I understand IE 7 has this feature built in, but I tried this version of IE and it brought my ancient PC to its knees!

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I'd suggest using Bloglines or a similar RSS service...
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Old 03-18-2007, 01:50 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I don't like the idea of a web-based one - something that functions as a toolbar within IE, and automatically notifies me of updated blogs would be great if such a thing exists, as this is what I understand the new version of IE to include.
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I'd seriously consider a web-based Reader ... they are miles ahead when it comes to RSS.

Firefox has some basic feed reading built in and may be lighter weight than IE 7 on your machine.
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If you can run ie6 there is a good chance you can run firefox.

Save yourself a lot of trouble and get firefox.

ie is evil, evil I tell you eeeeevil!
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ie is evil, evil I tell you eeeeevil!
I agree. I'm a web developer and it adds significant time and cost to most of my projects. It is a ridiculous browser and I cringe every time I see somebody using it.
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Hehe, sorry guys! Been looking into Firefox, and it does seem to be the way to go, even with my RSS feeds question. :-) Will have to get downloading now...
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I agree. I'm a web developer and it adds significant time and cost to most of my projects.
Definitely. I decided to use PNG images on my new web site, and found out that Microsoft only started supporting PNG transparency with IE 7 (I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky that they finally did it at least). So I had to spend a lot of time looking for an IE 6 hack that makes PNG transparency work in it. All other browsers have been supporting it natively for years.
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It STILL doesn't support overflow which all other browsers do also.

It's just crazy, totally crazy.


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I agree. I'm a web developer and it adds significant time and cost to most of my projects.
Ditto. I would say that I spend at least an extra 50% of my time on every project fixing it to work with IE. Even right now I have an issue with people logging on to several of my sites that only shows up in IE.

And I spent a fortune on a custom Java script only to also find it breaks under IE 6.. I just want to cry sometimes.

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Hehe, sorry guys! Been looking into Firefox, and it does seem to be the way to go, even with my RSS feeds question. :-) Will have to get downloading now...
I mentioned it because Firefox has an rss reader.
They call it 'live bookmarks' tho.
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