Steven Tew

Both Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 are due to be released later this month.
IE posted on Oct 6:
“The final release of IE7 is fast approaching … and I mean really fast … and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it’s available for download. …we can’t ensure 100% compatibility [...]

Even the most sceptical frontend developers will have cracked a small grin when they frist dropped their web pages into IE7 and discovered less breakage than in previous versions of IE. It seems Microsoft have finally ironed out many of their most defeating and irksome bugs and this will one day mean simpler, quicker and [...]

Microsoft takes Internet Explorer 7 out of beta and makes the release candidate of IE 7 available for download this morning.
“The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility. You may not notice many visible changes from the Beta 3 release; all we did was listen to your feedback, fix [...]

Microsoft are currently locking down IE7 for shipping and have released a summary of its new CSS features, fixes and changes.
And Dave Shea over at Mezzoblue.com ran a post yesterday asking people to highlight any IE7 CSS issues they’ve stumbled across during testing.
Incidentally one response to Dave’s request mentioned that their [...]

Well, it’s finally been announced. IE7 is to be distributed via Automatic Updates!
This is good news for us web developers. IE 7 has better web standards support and the Automatic Update will mean that its adoption will be rapid.
However…
A majority of sites on the web have been built to look good in buggy IE6. So [...]