Posted by Toby Inkster on 03/25/06 13:39

Noozer wrote:

> Have many of you tried out MS Internet Exploder 7 yet? Any comments to how
> it improves upon IE6? How does it compare to Firefox?

It's still pretty rubbish.

CSS parsing has improved leaps and bounds, so most of the old hacks for
MSIE won't work anymore. But CSS rendering hasn't improved much, so the
old hacks would still be quite useful if they worked!

That said, there have been a few CSS improvements that are worth
mentioning -- for instance, fixed positioning of elements and background
images now works properly. It's still a long way off full CSS 2.1 though.

PNG alpha blending works and there's a native XMLHTTPRequest object (no
ActiveX required for either of these now!)

The interface is horrible, both graphically and usability-wise, but I
expect they'll improve that -- after all, it's only a beta for now.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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