Microsoft have at last released Beta 1 of the long awaited IE7 to MSDN subscribers. Naturally I was keen to see whats gone on in the product. First obvious sign is that you could be mistaken that you were in Firefox and not Internet Explorer - welcome tab browsing to IE (activated with same key press as Firefox, CTRL + T), the top right corner has the familiar search box as per Firefox. Hitting a site with an RSS feed a button lights up in the menu bar showing the available feeds - no livemarks like in Firefox though. Clicking on a feed no longer shows the raw XML rather an XSLT’ed prettified version of it (if it’s well formatted!). As for CSS changes, there’s nothing obvious - it still fails the Acid 2 test. All our sites look just the same as they did in IE6, perhaps we’re missing something here - but it is only Beta 1 after all but you’d kinda expect CSS to appear being as it’s quite major to us web folk. Alpha transparency has made it into this release though - at least that’s one thing!
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July 29th, 2005 at 8:12 pm
Hi John,
Looks like you are moving around your blog site. I was in the middle of the LearnFB series and was about to do lesson 4 and I went back to your site and the PDF and the zip files were no longer attached "below" were the usually were. I found the pages in the archive but they weren’t on them .
Will you be putting them back up .
I hope so they were very usefull.
Thanks James