IE7 this month!

[David]

Microsoft announced, via their IEBlog, that IE7 will be available this month for download and will be included in an automatic download a few weeks later (my guess is November 13th - since automatic updates seem to take place on the 13th of each month).

I've been using IE7 for a while now (beta 2 and currently, RC1) and I must admit that I'm really not happy with it. Functionally, it's great and things like tabbed browsing and RSS feeds make a big difference to the browsing experience. BUT, there are still too many rendering bugs and I've had a nightmare recently, getting my code to render correctly in IE7, even when it looks fine in FireFox and IE6. :angry:

There's no doubt that this will complicate the lives of web designers as it's like having an extra new browser to take into consideration when coding. :rolleyes:

Link (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/06/IE7-Is-Coming-This-Month_2E002E002E00_Are-you-Ready_3F00_.aspx)

[francis]

(my guess is November 13th - since automatic updates seem to take place on the 13th of each month).

MS run their Windows updates on the second Tuesday of each month ("Patch Tuesday" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday)) unless there's a huge, gaping, exploitable hole that they feel needs fixing ASAP. Other than their entire OS, naturally :devil:

I've been working on a site layout at work that had to be an exact copy of someone else's Fireworks mock-up. As always, I coded for a standards compliant browser (in this case, Firefox 1.5.x on Windows). I spent a good while making sure it worked on that and IE6 and, to might massive delight, it worked perfectly in IE7. First time that's happened.

Interestingly, in the past couple of days, I've come across differences (CSS and JavaScript) in FF1.5.7 on OSX and Windows. OSX doesn't behave as expected. Very strange.