Posted by lengthsman on 03/29/06 16:00

Jim Higson wrote:
> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
> > lengthsman@btinternet.com wrote:
> >> > IE7 is rock solid.
> >>
> http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/explorer_7_beta_2/index.html
> >
> > Actually 69 bugs while in beta is not that bad. Heck, mozilla has 40
> > current bugs, and it isn't in beta.
>
> Or to look at it another way, only 40 have been found in Moz while loads of
> people are using it every day. Hardly anyone uses IE7 and they've already
> found more.
>
> Most of the bugs on that page are layout related and IE is in a "layout
> freeze" so these problems with the beta will probably be there in the final
> realease.
>
> > If IE7 gives me some tabs and a few other FF features I like, then it
> > is good bye FF, hello IE7
>
> I suppose when you're surfing as an end user it doesn't really matter since
> the designer will have hacked around whatever IE bugs pop up.


For a while I thought it was only me that notice the "layout freeze" so
that's about what? 9 months min for vista then what another 12 before
IE7.5 meanwhile in 24 months an expected 25% web access will be from
embedded devices who are currently trying to achieve XHTML strict CSS 2
browsers. If Opera/Mozilla continues with the momentum they will
probably be there as well and will have taken a lot more of the market.
Meanwhile back at MS HQ will have their fingers crossed hoping that an
external developer has found a hack to fix their bugs!

Quote from alistapart.com

"Catching different browser bugs to maintain my design instead of
simply display the line 'you are using substandard and defected
software; if it can't display this page properly do you really want
to try a secure credit card transaction'."

I WISH !!!

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