IE7 vs IE6

what is better?

[hellboy]

Does anyone know any advantage of IE7. Because I do not really see any. Even worse, it makes me more troubles to create a compatible, nice looking and valid website. The whole IE sucks anyway, but the IE7 is driving me crazy even more! Thx :)

[Robin_reala]

Funny, we see the opposite :) Were you originally taking account of other browsers? Do you use standards compliant development methods? IE's definitely moving in that direction.

[archerman]

I will have to track down the program - and maybe even suggest it here (if allowed) - which is freeware that allows you to render a web page in multiple browsers in a tiled environment (I'm thinking that is what it did anyway) then you would be able to see the real differences between different browsers.

I'm think that IE 7.0 is closer to FF then IE 6.0 - if it is then that would be a great thing.

Jason

[hellboy]

HI Jason,Robin

THX guys:) I hope it is getting closer to FF too, it would be really great! But it is still sometimes pain ida a** to creatate page looking the same in FF and IE without using for instance IE hacks or FF hacks etc. The freeware thing sounds good, I'm wonderig if something like that exist to allows you render the page in more browsers.....

HELL

[simonuk]

Once you understand the quirks you can quickly design in many different ways to work on many browsers with no hacks.

The good thing about designing web sites is there are usually a multitude of ways of acheiving the same results.

[Hester]

IE7: they solved a load of bugs, but introduced a load of new ones. At least it is more CSS-capable now. Even ABBR is supported! I just wish they would dump the out-of-date engine (built when Netscape was the main browser people used) and use Gecko (Mozilla), Presto (Opera) or WebKit (Safari etc) instead. They've been patching this broken program for too long. It must be a nightmare to work on the code.