IE7 Reactions
July 28th, 2005 by Kelson. Posted in Browsers and tagged for browser, IE7, internet, Opera, Web![[Internet Explorer]](http://www.hyperborea.org/images/cs/ie6-48.png){kind=small}
There’s timing. Microsoft has released the first IE7 beta, and Opera has released a security update. (The latest Firefox update was last week.)
Reaction to the IE7 beta has been… less than enthusiastic. I can’t install it at work since we’re standardized on Windows 2000 (IE7 requires Windows XP or newer), and I can’t download it at home since this version is only available through MSDN. Anne van Kesteren is not impressed. Neither is CNET. Asa Dotzler is trying to start a new round of Firefox marketing. Dean Edwards (author of the may-need-a-new-name IE7 standards compatibility script) is eagerly awaiting his copy. KuraFire has compared several reviews and summed up the response:
I guess that, yes, this was a disappointing first step for IE7, but even so, we should’ve expected no more than that. As much as we may all want IE7 to be a sign of great improvements in the Microsoft camp, reality once again points out that time and patience is necessary in dealing with this dinosaur of browser.
With any luck the next beta will show more improvement.
Edit: More reactions from Mezzoblue, mainly on trying to install it and what’s changed in CSS, and from WaSP’s Molly Holzschlag, focused on what comes next.
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I’m supposedly on the beta to do compatibility testing for Wikipedia, but apparently they managed to misspell my e-mail address and I didn’t get the mail in the first round.
We’ll see if they resend tomorrow… and if it manages to run in VirtualPC, as I’ve only got my PowerBook with me while traveling…