At 3:20 PM -0500 1/31/06, Bryce Fields wrote:
>Test those sites now.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
Oh, now this is interesting:
"Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows® XP
Service Pack 2 (SP2) systems, but will ultimately be available for
Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows
Server 2003."
-- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx
So it will not be available for Windows 2000, it would seem. That's
going to complicate the picture a bit.
I think what would serve the list best would be a wiki page with a
bunch of links to tests of known IE6 bugs or support gaps that are
supposed to be fixed in IE7. For example, listing test pages for all
the various float bugs (doubled margin, etc.), CSS2.1 selectors, CSS
hacks (star-html, etc.) and so on. The wiki would be a great place
to collect all those and to share testing results.
I'm advocating putting that on the wiki because it will keep the
information in one public place, so that non-members can make use of
the links and see the results of tests, and to avoid having the list
drowned by IE7 testing results and related traffic.
There is no doubt in my mind that IE7 traffic will become dominant
over the next several months, especially once it goes final, as
people work to deal with changes on their sites. Providing a solid
context for those discussion with a wiki page strikes me as a good
way to go about it.
So:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7
But please let's not start a round of "hacks are breaking! hacks are
necessary! hacks are evil!" on the list, especially not now. Let's
find out what we have first, and let the dust settle a bit before we
worry about which way to jump. And always remember that this is a
beta!
--
Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
-- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/)
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