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IE7 Beta 2 Released
Published on the 5th of February 2006
If you have not heard already, Microsoft has released a public beta version of Internet Explorer 7. This is the first update to IE's internal rendering engine in years. IE7 Beta 2 brings the browser enhanced security features and a remodeled interface with the popular tabbed browsing feature.
The main change in IE7's rendering engine is that it better understands the hacks long used by developers to apply specific styling to IE only. Now IE7 understands these hacks, but it has not fixed the rendering mishaps the hacks were fixing. Microsoft has advised developers to use conditional comments (external link) instead.
If you are already using the inline CSS hacks for IE then you will have to change around some of your CSS to compensate for IE7.
Personally, I find IE7 to be a nice improvement, but it is not yet up to par with Opera and Firefox. The text in IE7 is slightly fuzzy and not as crisp as in Opera. It is quite painful on the eyes.
Downloading IE7 (external link) requires a legitimate, genuine version of Windows XP SP2. It also installs over Internet Explorer 6, although there are hacks to install it as a standalone application.
Comments
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Daniel Malmqvist (external link) (7 Feb 2006 1:33)
Finally, this is nice. I installed it a few minutes ago.. It looks quite good actually. I'm surprised. But I gotta agree, the text looks funny.
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Karl-Sebastian (7 Feb 2006 11:36)
F*ck... need Service Pack 2... 8-)
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Karl-Sebastian (8 Feb 2006 11:21)
Hurray. Now I can remove Firefox!!! :)
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Ethan Poole (external link) (8 Feb 2006 14:21)
I wouldn't say that IE7 is anything to stand up to Firefox. It is still lacking better integrated tabs and standard's support in their rendering engine.
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Karl-Sebastian (9 Feb 2006 12:54)
I will uninstall IE7 now... not particulary good... really.
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Daniel Malmqvist (external link) (22 Feb 2006 7:09)
It's stil better then 6 so there is no reason to uninstall it.
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