Archive for March, 2008
It’s the little things
How do I know that a product is getting the proper amount of care and feeding?
When they fix and implement the little touches that make a difference.
I’ve been using IE 8 for a few weeks now and noticed that something that has always
bothered stopped bothering me.
What is this feature?
The search box in the upper right corner now updates based on the searches that you
do in Google, Live Search etc.
Let’s day I fire up the web browser and hit control-E (the shortcut to take you to
the search box).
I then type “Ryovac AAA” and get some results. However, I now want to refine my results
by clarifying the search a bit.
So in the search page I type “Ryovac AAA Hybrid” and hit search. Now I open
a new tab and want to issue that same search so I can browse a different page. Uh
oh, the IE search box says “Ryovac AAA”.
Well in IE 8 it says “Ryovac AAA Hybrid”.
Thanks IE Team!
This feature is actually more useful when you are searching some error message you
are getting on your PC and you are constantly refining the search over time and have
like 5 different tabs open as you continue your research.
To me this feature is just like the one where IE
finally started matching text in menus the way it’s supposed to. This feature
has saved me countless frustrating minutes.
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