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MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7

Posted by Zonk on from the the-end-times-are-coming dept.

Mike Savior writes "Eweek has a story stating that Microsoft is telling web site developers to prepare their sites for IE 7. From the article: 'One area that Microsoft has clearly articulated as being one in which developers can start work now to prepare for IE 7 involves the UA (user agent) string. First discussed in the company's Weblog in April, the code change prompted a reminder on Wednesday to developers, telling them that Microsoft continues to run across Web sites that are not expecting Version 7 of the browser, and urging them to test their UA strings. '"

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  1. UA strings! by Freexe · · Score: 5, Funny
    Surely Microsoft have learnt by now that UA detection just doesn't cut it anymore.

    I really hope IE7 has improved its standards compatibility so I don't have to change to much of my code! (Hopefully none of it, if MS have done a good job)

    We can only cross our fingers and hope it will pass the acid2 test (at the very least have improved some of its css)!

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    "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
  2. uh, yeah.... by towndowner · · Score: 5, Funny

    my web site's been prepared for IE7 since 1996 or so.

  3. Nope... by ozamosi · · Score: 5, Funny

    As this article states, IE7 will not support CSS2. But come on! Give MS some slack! The CSS2 standard is only 7 years old. You must give them some time to implement the thing..!

  4. The difference in User Agents by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 4, Funny

    IE6:
    Mozilla_4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)

    IE7:
    Firefox_1.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0)

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