Welcome to my blog. I am a Web designer from the Northwestern UK (near Manchester). Aside from the usual rants and observations, I also plan to share any of the cool or useful CSS/JS and maybe a bit of Flash snippets I discover in the problem solving that is associated in my Day to Day job.

Friday, October 20, 2006

MS releases IE7

So Microsoft has finally released a big IE update. Which is great and all but puts Web developers in a bit of a quandary, do you upgrade to make sure everything works, or stick with IE6 which is what most people still have (and wait until it's rolled in to the XP auto update cycle later next month). This is an issue because MS don't really want you to have both at the same time. But thankfully there is a solution. The Browser archive have what appears to be a working 'standalone' version of IE6, it doesn't even need installing just unpack and it will run anywhere, Just be careful not to open it at the same time as 7, else it throws a bit of a wobbler.
On IE7, I think the UI works better when combined with Vista. The 'press alt for the menu bar' thing doesn't work to well in XP, and the tabs seam to have been implemented in a odd way. Everybody else has decided on a 'command' key and 'T' for a new tab (Safari is Command+T, Firefox is Control+T etc) MS seams to have gone it's own way, and I can't seam to find the 'New Tab' shortcut key. I will probably go and have a look at some of 'my' sites over the next few weeks and see if there are any severe rendering issues that need fixing, as although they have supposedly 'fixed' a pile of IE bugs, a load more are bound to have arisen. Shouldn't be too bad though as I hardly ever fell in to that add these CSS hacks for IE layout trap, mostly doing things in a different way if something was going wrong in IE6.

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