Internet Explorer 7 out in the wild
Yesterday Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7.
I suppose this means I’ll have to download, install and then spend a good few days making alterations to the stylesheets on all of my sites at work!
argh!
Looking at the gumph on the site, it just seems all so old hat now, all of these features have been in Firefox for years. The only thing it’s got going for it in my opinion is the hope that css works correctly and yet that isn’t going to make a great difference to most of us until everyone who still uses IE decide to upgrade. How long will that be? Some people still use IE 5!
Tags: IE, internet-explorer, microsoft, release, software
October 19th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Apparently ‘Quirks Mode’ is unchanged from IE6, so if you don’t declare a doctype you’ll be fine.
If you’re like me try and to write valid XHTML with CSS layout, expect a few quirks here and there.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
I’ve not dared try it yet!
I’m using the transitional doctype atm, I really want to move over to the strict doctype, I know I should as i’ve removed all none semantic tags.
Have you tried 7 yet? Can it be installed alongside older IE? It would be nice to still have the more utilised version purely for development testing.
October 20th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
I’m using a transitional doctype too, and it can cause problems with IE7.
I’ve got IE7 on my Windows desktop, but I’m leaving IE6 on my laptop for as long as possible, so I can easily test with both versions.
There are various standalone IE6 installers out there, but I haven’t tried them. I have used standalone versions of IE5 and IE5.5 for testing purposes in the past.