Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Reviewed

An anonymous reader writes to mention a review of the latest Beta release for Internet Explorer 7 on Paul Thurrott's SuperSite. From the article: "While it's not enough to make me switch from Firefox yet--I still love certain Firefox features such as inline search--it's no longer an object of ridicule either. IE 7.0 Beta 3 includes huge functional and security advantages of IE 6 and is an absolute no brainer for anyone choosing to stick with IE. If you are an IE user, head over to the Microsoft Web site and pick up IE 7.0 Beta 3 today." ZDNet has some first impressions of the release as well.

Comments

How strange...

[scgops]

...to see an article on /. saying something positive about a Microsoft product.

I guess we'll start seeing flames any minute now...

Re:How strange...

[wordisms]

You wanna hear something strange? Firefox is my default browser, so in IE7b3, when I click on a bookmark or enter a URL into the address bar, IE7 actualy calls Firefox to retrieve the page. Bizarre!!!

does not install

[managementboy]

[irony]
shit, once again I am stuck! I tried to install it on my SuSE 10.1, but it does not work... this damn Windows Genuine Advantage. If Novel only had a SuSE Genuine Advantage.
[/irony]

Re:Anyone have

[aymanh]

Someone linked to this list in a previous discussion, one of my favorite quotes:

Obviously, we have heard the feedback asking us to be more standards-compliant in our rendering behavior. We must balance this ask with the need of our customers (and end users) to have their pages not be broken. To find a balance we introduced a strict mode in IE6 that lets authors opt in into the more standards compliant rendering (and, if you're putting in a modern DOCTYPE declaration, you're being opted in automatically). Pages authored under non-strict mode (or "quirks mode") will not change behavior in IE7 - so the fixes we've done to be more CSS compliant won't appear under quirks mode.

So wannabe web designers will still be able to create broken pages and get away with it on IE6 AND IE7.

Re:Anyone have

[marcello_dl]

Ha! I know the answer, it will have 100% support of:
- Microsoft HTML(tm)
- Microsoft CSS4(tm)
- Microsoft XHTML(tm)
- Microsoft XForms and ActiveX and other eXotic eXtensions.

meh

[ElephanTS]

Can't wait to get my hands on tabbed browsing. It sounds really good.

This is great news

[sl4shd0rk]

"Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 3 is a solid, feature-packed browser that all IE users should flock to immediately"

I am going to switch immediately, and you should too.

Re:a finer compliment

[vistic]

i believe you meant "sycophant"... and not "sychophant", which is a crazy elephant... not to be confused with "psychopants" which were a 70's fad.

Re:It breaks the new slashdot layout

[bky1701]

It's a feature, not a bug, dammit!

IE Users??

[SQLz]

If you are an IE user, head over to the Microsoft...

Who are.....these people?