2 posts tagged “beta”
Of all the people in the world I figured Adobe could do this right. All of the other colour pallet websites are so slow, and Adobe's attempt is no better. I have no idea how passing hex values for colors can take so dang long but what designer has the time to wait 10-20 seconds per page to browns color pallets.
Granted Adobe Kuler is an Adobe Labs project implying that its beta, but common if Adobe cant make Flex fast who can? I guess we will have to wait and see.
All that aside it is pretty cool. Check it out at http://kuler.adobe.com
Yes its true, Internet Explorer 7 released yesterday. I have been playing around with the beta version for quite some time now; because as a designer you want to stay on top of the browser development.
It is drastic improvement form its predecessor and now sports many of the same features as Firefox. Such as: tabbed browsing (I actually like IE's tabed browsing better), built in search box, and even third party extensions (called add-ons in IE) except IE give the creator the ability to sell extensions.
The on feature I love about IE7 it the built in rss reader. It is not the most full featured rss reader out there but it is the easiest to setup and use out of any I have tried. It automatically detects that the page you are on has an RSS feed and lights up the feed icon at the top of the page. Then all you have to do it click it and it will give you a preview of the RSS feed inside the reader. (the photo to the left is a screenshot of my Vox blog previewed in the IE 7 RSS reader)
Although IE tas much better CSS support there is still drastic diffrentces between the way IE and firfox dispaly webpages so it looks like designers will still have to use javascript hacks for some time.
If it wasnt for the fact that I use a Mac at work and a PC at home I would probably switch to IE7, (mostly beacuse of the RSS reader) but since I like constitancy I will be using Firefox for now.
