IE 7
Well, those clever people over at Microsoft have launched Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. For those of you who dont know, IE 7 is the forthcoming version of IE, and beta 2 means that it is in testing phase - basically they release it to people and wait for it to break.
I have played with it a bit, and as expected it has the usual crap complience to CSS - something which as a web developer I find most annoying. There is a loverly website by the W3C which details how to use the standards. You know how China’s government block certain websites, does Microsoft ban its employees from looking at the W3C site?
Also, I think the development cycle went something like this:
- Download Firefox.
- Screw up Firefox source code to remove complience.
- Brand as Microsoft.
- Package and make available for download.
In my opinion, as a Firefox user, use Firefox. I know that there are many out there (not many who will be reading this) that “trust” Microsoft and will only use Microsoft products. All they have done here is re-invent the wheel, and badly.
Big thumbs up there Bill.
February 28th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
[...] I also think that what they have done looks, and sounds, a lot like Apple’s os X tiger. Similar to the way microsoft re-invented Firefox it appears that yet again they have stolen someone elses ideas and done it badly. [...]