Deep Thoughts with Richard Schoen

Well, since it’s been roughly seven years since Microsoft has released a new browser I found myself compelled to install the latest interation: IE7. IE7 brings us some of the features that have been available in Firefox for a few years now such as tabbed browsing. This was the main reason I updated to IE7 right away. I like Firefox, but it doesn’t work with ActiveX controls. To me, IE7 is simply an iterative release that brings the MS browser to current look and feel along with adding several security bells and whistles which have been sorely needed.   Before you update to IE7 make sure all of your web applications work with it. I’ve run into a few vendors who say they don’t support IE7 yet.

For the most part, this was a sorely needed browser update, although I have to admit there’s something about browser version stability. Any of you web developers remember supporting Netscape, IE3, IE4, IE5 and IE 5.5 at the same time ? Get it at Microsoft. It’s a small download and definitely worth updating to within the next few months.

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