Primarily though, my main reason for preferring it is that it doesn't make a fucking infuriatingly annoying clicking noise every time I click a link like IE does - my mouse already does that, why the hell would I want my browser to do it too?!
This is obviously post necromancy, but there is actually a very good reason for that - accessibility. It's aimed at blind/partially-sighted users or users with mobility problems who can't work a mouse, allowing them to get the same 'click' feedback that other users would get. It can also be turned off ;)
I'm also a web developer (front-end flavoured) and I'm not really looking forward to IE9 becoming semi-mainstream because they're guaranteed to fuck up the box model somewhere for the umpteenth time. Development for IE is like death by 1000 tiny layout anomalies and I have no reason to expect their latest one to be any different.
This is obviously post necromancy, but there is actually a very good reason for that - accessibility. It's aimed at blind/partially-sighted users or users with mobility problems who can't work a mouse, allowing them to get the same 'click' feedback that other users would get. It can also be turned off ;)
I'm also a web developer (front-end flavoured) and I'm not really looking forward to IE9 becoming semi-mainstream because they're guaranteed to fuck up the box model somewhere for the umpteenth time. Development for IE is like death by 1000 tiny layout anomalies and I have no reason to expect their latest one to be any different.