Testing in IE7 beta?

[cuce]

Why isn't anyone talking about the new release of IE?
I havent examined it yet myself, I wanted to read some reviews first but I can't find anything!

[sailships]

Word of caution...
If you use a software application that launches FROM IE7, make sure that that application can run on IE7.

We use a CRM application that our call center uses to suuport our customers... After upgrading some workstations to IE7, they learned the hard way that the program does NOT support I37

[cuce]

does ie7 still read css like this?

#onlyforIE,{styles...}

I don't use it anymore, but I used this hack on a few old sites before I knew better. It hides this bit of css from most browsers
but shows up fine in IE

[encyclo]

We had had quite a few recent threads about the IE7 betas which have been available for a while. Here are a few from the forum library:

New: the real IE 7 beta 2 [webmasterworld.com]

IE7 Beta 2: new build now available (March 20 build) [webmasterworld.com]

For the CSS hack you mention, IE7 fixes a lot of bugs which existed in IE6 and earlier, so many invalid hacks will break. You should review your CSS and test in the IE7 to see the effects. In general it is a bad idea to depend on parsing errors and invalid markup/CSS for applying styles to a particular browser.

[cuce]

Yes I know I have given my self whippings for relying on parse bugs. I will never do that again!

Strange that there are no post release threads on this though eh?

[Hester]

Is this the full program or still the beta?

[kiwibrit]

Still beta.

[JamesR3]

I can tell you that we have found issues with IE7 already, so anyone that is really concerned with this issue should be testing.

Side note: Testing several IE's, plus Firefox, plus Opera, plus Safari... It's really annoying. I'd love to hear from anyone who has a lot of experience at this in terms of the details of your test methodologies, good comprehensive resources of certain code to avoid since it doesn't show up the same in all browsers (we do not script different pages for different browsers -- I do not want to have to maintain multiple code bases), what your thoughts on going XHTML are, etc.

Thanks,
James

[cuce]

I went here:
[microsoft.com...]

and it sure looks like its released to me, but i'm just a slack jawwed yokel.

[encyclo]

Just to confirm, IE7 is currently released as a beta version for testing only. The main IE7 pages don't make that particularly clear, but if you go to the download page [microsoft.com] only the Beta 2 version is available.

There is no clear timeline for the final release, it is already many months overdue compared to the initial release estimates given by MS. It may well not be released until Vista is released as well, which would be in the first quarter of 2007.

[cuce]

thank god.