Microsoft to Publicly Release IE7 Soon
In a few weeks, web developers everywhere will have a burden lifted from their backs. Microsoft will be rolling out Internet Explorer 7 to the public. Soon after the download is made available to the public, Microsoft will be pushing IE7 through XP’s Automatic Updates. Therefore there will be a massive migration from IE6 to IE7.
I’m not saying that IE7 is great, but compared to IE6 it’s much less of a developer’s nightmare. Hopefully the transition process will go smoothly. The IEBlog has the details of the upcoming release. What do you guys think of IE7? Will the transition from IE6 (if you use it) to IE7 be painless?
Oh and pardon the short posts for now… we’re moving again.
I haven’t used IE for anything except for Microsoft updates since discovering Firefox many moons ago. I don’t expect IE7 to change that.
I’m on a mac, so this really doesn’t matter to me anyway, but even when I’m on a PC I always use firefox. As someone who sticks to the W3C standards, I’m always frustrated with IE6.
I can’t say that I’m excited about IE7, I just hope it takes away from the amount of time I have to spend hacking my CSS apart for IE6.
Anything is better than IE6.
I’d hardly say a burden will be lifted when IE7 goes public. It will be years before IE6 can be ignored and not taken into consideration during development. Sure, it’s a step in the right direction. But all it really does is throw another browser into the pot.
I agree with Josh, though it’s nice that Microsoft kind of gets it now, it’s just another browser to have to worry about, and we can’t give up on IE6. Doesn’t excite me at all.
I disagree, I think it will only a couple years until IE6 becomes significantly less important, still, that is a long time. I hope Microsoft really jams it down the throats of all Windows users to download it, that would be doing the entire web development community a big service.
I’m with Josh on this one — developers won’t be able to ‘forget’ about IE6 for a good long time — and the presence of IE7 is nothing short of more extensive conditional comments.
Even If this released, IE6 will continue to exist. It may take sometime to fadeout… Till then its developers nightmare.
Safari is the only CSS3 compliant browser as of today
Jon:
“and the presence of IE7 is nothing short of more extensive conditional comments.”
Wha? I don’t think you know what you’re talking about
@Andrew: Allow me to be more specific. Now that IE7 will be a lot more common as opposed to it being in beta stages, developers are going to have to modify how they tackle the differences. Personally, I use conditional comments to help IE display sites as I intend. Conditional comments allow you to target specific versions of Internet Explorer and my comment simply meant that should you use conditional comments, they will be more extensive because you’ll more than likely need to have one for IE6 and one for IE7 (and maybe more depending on which you aim to support).