Internet Explorer 7 - fingers uncrossed
Friday, February 03, 2006
So I just took the new beta of IE7 for spin, to see if it would break any of my sites (trying out on the Dell PC I use for testing).
It didn’t - which is what I’d expect, as it’s more standards-compliant than IE6, but you never know.
I try to avoid IE-specific hacks, although sometimes it’s challenging to cope with IE6’s well-publicized weirdnesses. My site logs (not scientific, I know but . . . ) tell me that less than 1% of my visitors are using IE5, and I’ve largely stopped testing for browsers built in the last century.
But there’ll be a long time when IE6 and 7 will be used very widely, and we’ll have to stop using some techniques and tweak others to work with both browsers. So we’re still a ways off from genuine and complete cross-platform standards- compliance, but IE7 marks one more step in that direction.