Microsoft to Push Out IE 7 This Month - Security Fix

Microsoft joins the Modern Web sometime this month with a long-awaited release of Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft to Push Out IE 7 This Month - Security Fix:

A Microsoft spokesperson declined to say whether IE7 would be released tomorrow, saying only that it would be released sometime this month.

IE 7 includes tabbed browsing, built in RSS feeds, as well as tools to help users spot phishing Web sites that mimic banks and trusted e-commerce companies to steal personal and financial data.

It is actually a rather modest improvement over IE 6. The CSS 2.1 support will still have a ways to go before it gets finished. From what I have read, it still will not catch up with Firefox 1.5 on CSS 2.1.

Firefox 2.0 will likely be coming out this month too. So by November, IE might actually wind up further behind that before.

CSS 2.1 is not the end game by any means either. CSS 3, which will probably get finished year now, will be the next W3C recommendation that web browser makers will be pressured to adhere too.

Firefox already has a small amount of support for new CSS 3 features.

Still, any improvement is a good thing. And this will get web developers who lazily only tested their pages, sites, and applications with only one browser.

Guess what guys? Now there is another browser replacing the one you tested with, and it works differently! And a lot of customers might all be upgrading to it the same week, less than a month from now!!

Interesting times. Interesting times....

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