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there are too many buttons to fit horizontally on a toolbar, IE replaces the rightmost oneswith a popup menu disguised as a >>.You can change the colors of the buttons to any of Apple’s recent case colors—the iMac flavors,graphite, PowerBook black, and PowerBook bronze. However, you cannot pick yourown custom color, and none of the ones Microsoft provides match any of Apple’s Appearanceaccent colors. I’m not a fan of any of Microsoft’s choices; the graphite and blueberry areprobably the least distracting. You might think that the color of the toolbar buttons is aminor issue—after all, some people even hide the toolbar. However, Microsoft has ensuredthat everyone will care by changing the accent color within IE to match the chosen toolbarcolor. Focus rings in text boxes, scroll bar thumbs, the menu highlight color, and the namesof form buttons all use the toolbar color in IE. Thus, even standard interface elements lookdifferent in IE than in any other Macintosh application. Consistency is perhaps the mostimportant Macintosh interface ideal, and Microsoft has let its stylistic choices get in the wayof it. Even worse, IE 5 has a bug where its toolbar color replaces the system accent color in allapplications. This persists after you’ve quit IE, and the only solution is to restart yourmachine.IE 5’s toolbar is completely customizable. Select Customize Toolbars… from the Viewmenu, and IE loads a special Web pages that shows the toolbar buttons that are available. Youcan drag them onto the toolbar, rearrange the toolbar, and drag buttons you don’t want toATPM 6.04 ← 97 →Stuff: Internet Explorer 5.0