IE7 Check-in
Posted Friday, December 15th, 2006 at 2:38 pm by Tim (39 posts)
As a front end developer, I viewed the release of IE7 with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. Having spent the past several years coding around the various shortcomings of IE6, I was certainly looking forward to what purported to be, a much more standards-compliant browser. I was, however, also nervous about getting a browser that, while fixing the bugs that allowed me to “hack” stylesheets into working for IE6 (the “* html” hack in particular), failed to correct the bugs that forced me to hack in the first place.
So far, it seems that IE7 is going to make life much easier for folks like me and has required very little (if any) tweaking of sites we’ve built. I’m really hoping that Microsoft’s aggressive upgrade system will push a much quicker adoption of what appears to be a browser actually worth using.
For those as geeky as I, here are some resources from Microsoft explaining the changes to how IE7 handles CSS and PNG graphics:
