Thread: Internet Explorer 7

If you haven't heard, Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 7. One of the features of IE7 is updated CSS capability. I haven't checked out IE7 yet, but I assume this means that we can now expect IE to render the same as Mozilla browsers (i.e. Firefox) and that IE 7 is W3C CSS compliant.

However.... it looks like there may be problems with sites that use CSS hacks to render pages properly in IE6. Here's a quote from Microsoft:

Internet Explorer 7 contains a number of improvements to cascading style sheet (CSS) parsing and rendering over IE6. These improvements are aimed at improving the consistency of how Internet Explorer interprets cascading style sheets as recommended by the W3C in order that developers have a reliable set of functionality on which to rely.

In some cases a few of these changes may have the effect of making existing content render in ways that are not compatible with IE6. This is often seen with elements moving to a different area of the page or overlapping content when viewed in IE7. These issues are most common on content that is using particular CSS constructs (often know as "hacks" or filters) to work around bugs that existed under the strict mode in IE6.

I may be wrong, but it looks like some sites might have rendering problems until everyone upgrades to IE7. So far, MS is not making IE7 a mandatory update.

I'm going to download IE7, and I hope it lets me install it without overwriting IE6 so I can make some comparisons. Has anyone downloaded IE7 and noticed rendering problems on some sites?

I like the older version better Why did they put the reload button way on the other side! Though can't blame MicroDump for trying to stay ahead of firefox

Internet explorer 7 is one of most popular browser,developed by microsoft,it has many advance features which does not have in older version of microsoft's browser.its more flexible that's why most of the peoples are prefer this browser.