Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 released

Journal entry
February 1, 2006

It’s somewhere over here hidden by a hideous Flash animation.

Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. The homepage is a staggeringly fucking awful flash animation, promising “Everything you need, nothing you don’t, and a few things you have yet to imagine”, before displaying a list of Firefox’s features.
- Rod Begbie

Unless they’ve got something spectacular to pull out of the hat, I think I pity the IE7 developers. I mean, they’ve been working for a good couple of years now, and they’re just approaching Opera and Firefox’s heels?
- Phil Wilson

As expected and promised, it’s still not anywhere close to passing ACID2.

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Derek J February 4, 2006

It appears to have some problems. :)

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917858,00.asp
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522682.aspx
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2149602/microsoft-gets-flooded-ie7-bug
http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6033611.html

Srđan Prodanović February 7, 2006

I wish it has specifically user-centric problems, that will direct users towards using serious user agents, who's authors care about developers as well. I start twitching rabidly whenever I read the IE Blog.. Constantly, they just ignore serious questions, and answer idiots that ask how is this compliant with Visual-Studio-Something toolbar control.

Uh, the website?

'Nuff said.

Srđan Prodanović February 7, 2006

Your textile formatting filtered this out, although it was shown in the preview..

Jakob S February 7, 2006

Slight issue with the textile preview Javascript apparently allowing images, while the actual textile formatter on the website doesn't. Sorry about that.

Nice comparison, btw :)

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