The first beta is available... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx Even though I don't use IE, this is the part I care about: Platform enhancements for developers to improve compatibility and manageability, including improved support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as well as transparent PNG support. So maybe people will stop needing to develop sites for IE, then a different version for everything else.
"inline search right from the toolbar" - With my current msn rankings this is the bit that really interests me.. Any ideas if it will search the corresponding .co.uk/ .fr etc ?
What are some of the things in CSS that don't work in IE? I don't use a "ton" of CSS just for styling links and tables and such so maybe i don't see that side of things... i find myself always have to work around firefox not doing things like an emtpy td with a height of 1 to use as a black line, or the "height=100%" thing...
Funny... if you look around, you can gethold of Explorer 7. and even Windows Vista with an activation crack...
hope the sizing issue for CSS in IE7 will be better. Be great to have CSS layouts be easier to make standard. I will have to see if my MSDN subscription will let me have a crack
I give it the thumbs up! Really nice improvement, almost seems like they are going the route firefox is, hmmm CSS still seems to function a little differently on some of my sites.
some new planned CSS updates (IE7) were recently posted on the official Msn blog Interesting to read the ongoing debates and watch the evolution
According to BetaNews, some Internet Explorer 7 testers who loaded the Beta 1 have discovered that their instant messaging software crashes. Trillian, Gaim and IM2 all spit out error messages when loaded alongside IE7, and the only fix is to uninstall Microsoft's new browser. The problem ostensibly lies in a DLL file used by the multi-network IM clients to connect to the MSN Messenger service. IE7 includes a new version of wininet.dll which causes the crash if users connect to the AIM network while also connecting to MSN. "The developers are aware of the issue. There will most likely be no patch for it right now because IE7 is still in BETA testing. If a patch was issued, there is a chance that something else would change that would mess it up again," said one Cerulean employee on the company's support forums.
They are. AOL explorer did that and then Yahoo came out with a toolbar last week that did the same thing but caused IE to crash.