The bad news has finally arrived. The new browser from Microsoft is available in beta format. Now, as a web developer, I’m looking for fixes in all the CSS-bugs IE has thrown at us. If these haven’t been fixed, then please please let us still be able to use the IE6 hacks to solve them. I’m guessing they’ll still work, but you never know. The “big” news is that it’ll support PNG images properly, which is at least nice, if not some what late.
Read more about it on the Microsft site.
Also, in related news, a beta version of Vista has been released. This is the official name of Microsoft’s new OS, formally know as Longhorn.
Comments
LordRich
Website
Thursday 28th July 2005
Is it bad news? If it supports css and png better, and encourages non-xp users to use Firefox then it can surely only be a good thing?
trovster
Website
Friday 29th July 2005
Supports CSS? Well, from what I’ve heard of people testing it, it’s only solved two bugs “Peek-a-boo” and guillotine, and supports PNG better.
If it has other problems, or fixes work-around code, it could be a nightmare to support. But, hopefully we’ll still have the * HTML hack, because most of the bugs are IE6 similar anyway.
I thought it was being released for XP, that’s why this beta is so soon, and not just for Vista…
LordRich
Website
Saturday 30th July 2005
Yeah, CSS support is still rubbish and they’re not planning on doing anything about it. But as you say, it’s the same problems as IE6 so no major changes needed most of the time.
PNG support is good though.
Yes, it’s only for XP and Vista. That means that people who find tabbed browsing when forced to use it in IE7 at work will go home to their Windows 98 computers and miss it. Hopefully they’ll then find Firefox, and maybe even start using it at work.
Incidentally, in IE6 - did the submit button on this form look like it does in Firefox? Because in IE7 it just looks like a normal XP-style button.
Deus Diablo
Website
Tuesday 2nd August 2005
I think whether it was bad news or not depended mainly on its CSS support more perhaps than its PNG support. In my book this is too little too late.
I imagine the reason they’re not fixing CSS though is that there are still a lot of sites out there that have CSS that works in IE and not FF, so they don’t want to ruon those sites.
Brent Erie
Website
Friday 14th October 2005
please tell me when this update is available tp the public