Re: InternetNews - Product News -- Internet Explorer 6 Beta to be Released This Quarter

*snip*

>According to the alleged notes, some of the new features of the browser 
>include:
>
>*New Explorer bars -- existing Explorer bars include Search, Favorites and 
>History; IE 6 will add a Media bar, Contacts bar, Search the Web bar, News 
>bar, Personal bar, and the ability to add new HTML-based Explorer bars 
>created by Microsoft or third-party developers
>*Support for Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) standards -- IE 6 
>includes a new Privacy tab on Internet Options which allows the user to 
>set the level of privacy desired by specifying whether Web hosts may 
>collect client information through cookies; IE 6 utilizes P3P 1.0
>*Virus Protection in Outlook Express 6 -- the new option prevents 
>applications that could potentially be a virus from being saved or opened
>*General tab -- a Delete Cookies button has been added to the General tab 
>of Internet options.

*end snip*

Search, favorites, media, contacts, web, news, personal, privacy 
preferences, outlook express 6, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....

Am I the only one who finds the ever increasing amount of space hogged up 
by "features" I'll never use annoying? I don't WANT more bars and menus and 
chopped up frames that clutter my window and eat severely into my usable 
viewing space. Hell, I don't even want to have to be bothered with turning 
them off.

What I WANT in a browser is support of standards. I want full CSS 
compliance. I want bugs worked out and idiosyncrasies fixed. I want it to 
be faster, to run better, process more smoothly, launch faster, crash less 
often, and to take less than 3 days to download for installation (without 
having to then download for another 4 days getting all the pieces to make 
it work correctly and as needed).

Jeniffer (living in a fairy tale, and waiting for Prince Charming to come 
along on his DSL connection...erm...white horse)
OffLead Productions

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