Internet Explorer 7, oh dear!
Posted October 19th, 2006 by Laura Scott
So far, all the buzz is pretty much about IE7's "new" features like the tabbed browsing that other browsers have had for years now, with some mention of the upcoming Firefox 2 release.
But just wait until websites start breaking. Internet Explorer has always required non-web-standard hacks. The net effect of this has been my thumbnail estimate of 30-40% of loss of productivity in the web design field while developers work around Microsoft's "we don't need no stinkin' standards" attitude and break out the duct tape and chewing gum to make sites that work in every other browser work in IE.
IE7 honors some more web standards, but still has its own quirks -- some new ones, apparently.
Let the kvetching begin!
It's funny, I've been using IE7 since beta 2 but I always have to open up Firefox to browse drupal.org as there's some bug that basically hides all the content, especially on the modules list. There are other sites too, I love it!! IE7 encourages me to use Firefox!
I was wondering about that kind of thing. With IE7 breaking all sorts of sites, how does Microsoft expect people to like it?