Torchwood rocks.

More in a day or two.

But for now I just have to say: Gwen, you run like a girl…

Very True Mood: ecstatic

So Jack’s asked me what I think of version seven of the “that damned browser” (aka the “browser-like operating system component”). Well, I’ve been using the betas for quite a while and really I don’t really see a lot to get very excited about.

The interface is strange, with all the useful stiff tucked away on the bottom right hand side of the toolbars (and I understand that the next release of Office will have a similar layout) and several obscure buttons way down there on the status bar.

Tabbed browsing. Great if you’re wedded to IE, but last year’s news (well year before last, or was it the year before that?) for everyone else. Thumbnail view of tabs is nice but not as nice as Opera’s tooltip thumbnails.

RSS reader is nice. Much better than Firefox’s dire live bookmarks feature and nicer to look at than Opera’s reader.

Security features. Obviously needed, not my area of expertise, nothing much to say.

CSS improvements? Yep, at last we have max-width support and so on. But really just playing catch up with the competition. Not seen anything in the way of new bugs or incompatabilities that’s going to cause problems for my sites but time will tell.

Page zoom. Copied from Opera and not quite as well done. Very good to see both page and text zoom available. Shame that text zoom is still as crippled as it was in IE 6. And no minimum font size setting - probably the single best invention since the back button, a very simple setting that solves so many problems.

Search settings, nice, better than IE 6, not as good as Opera.

Which, just about sums it up. A huge improvement on IE 6 but not as good as Opera or even Firefox.

Very True Mood: relaxed