Re: TECH: IE 7

On 11/14/06, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> At work I have to make sure the web pages we produce look right with any
> browser, so I have a lot of different browsers installed including IE6 on one
> machine and IE7 on another (They can't coexist on the same machine).
"Can't" is too strong a word.  As I said in my last message, it's
possible, with some fiddling (that has mostly been done for you by
third parties), to coerce them into a sort of uneasy peaceful
coexistence.

> Of all the browsers I use on a regular basis, the one I use for my own personal
> browsing is Firefox. That's what I would recommend.
Heartily seconded.

> Forget IE 7 for now. It is giving us more compatability problems than all the other
> browsers so my guess is a lot of web site are going to appear broken when viewed with
>  IE 7.
Yes, but to be fair, that's a temporary situation, because it's new
and web developers haven't adapted yet.  The changes from IE 6 to 7
are virtually all improvements; it's just that so many pages have
workarounds for the stuff that was broken in IE <= 6, and those
workarounds break in IE 7.  Even pages which work great in Firefox,
Opera, Safari, Konqueror, and IE 6 may break in IE 7 because they
detect that you're using some version of IE and switch to
"bug-workaround" mode, even though the page would look and work just
fine in IE7 if they served the standard page they use for the other
browsers on that list.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>