Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Released

Kawahee writes "Microsoft, in conjunction with the announcement that they have finished Windows Vista RC1 have released Internet Explorer 7 RC1. Further commentary from the IE Blog post: '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 bugs that you reported, and make final adjustments to our CSS support.'"

Comments

Re:backwards compatibility

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Really, who cares what people who can't code to standards will have to do? They've made their beds, now they can fucking lay in them.

That's written trollishly, but it's exactly right. The biggest problem with Internet Explorer (aside from security vulns) has been its philosophy of accepting badly written HTML. Throw something with half a dozen missing (or out of order) </TD>s, </TR>s and </TABLE>s at IE, and it will go "sure, sure I know what you meant" and render it SOMEHOW, thus obviating the need for people to actually write correct HTML. Throw the same code at one of the Gecko browsers, and nothing gets rendered, or gets rendered badly. And this is where the author of the code invariably growls "fucking Netscape"; eventually they just stop trying to make their code work on anything but IE. I haven't tried IE7 (and have no intention), but I'd be curious if it still behaves this way.

IE7 RC1 has been out for weeks?

[insomniac8400]

Why does this article IE7, when the RC1 version has been out for a while.