IE 7 for XP Only?
Via Cnet:
Firefox increased its market share to 8.71 percent, up from 8 percent in May, while IE’s share shrank to 86.56 percent from 87.23 percent, NetApplications.com, an Aliso Viejo, California, maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage, said this week in a statement.
Yes! I love to hear this. At Microsoft, they are still scrambling to get IE 7 ready to go, as their market share continues to drop. According to the IE BLog, there will be a beta of IE 7 available this summer. Interestingly enough, the same post goes on to say, more or less, that there’s a possibility that IE 7 will not be supported on Windows 2000 or below…or at least that’s what I got out of it: "Right now, we’re focused on XP SP2. We’re actively listening to our major Windows 2000 customers about what they want and comparing that to the engineering and logistical complexity of that work. That’s all I can say on that topic."
So, basically, in their rush to get this out, they don’t have time to make versions of IE 7 compatible with older versions of Windows. Score another point for Firefox!
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Good thing I switched now.
Well I’m not gonna judge IE7 before I try it. Firefox used to have tons of stupid bugs before they released 1.0. I’m on FF now using the tabs. Now if the new IE engine and tabs turn out to be good, i’ll still be using it…CPU will tell…wait and see!
As a web designer, IE7 angers me to no end. Oh goody, tabs. Where are the bug fixes? When will they save me from having to write CSS hack after CSS hack so I can use borders and padding without having to recalculate all my sizes? When will they fix the font-size keyword issue?
Oh yeah, they’re not.
IE7 is a joke, one that most of the unsuspecting public will swallow like so much kool-aid from the bathtub. For every gift MS gives me (C# - bestest language ever), they also leave two flaming bags of poo on my front porch. Gah.
I use a portable firefox stored on my USB key. It rocks! I blogged a post about it on my site under “Cool Beans!”