Microsoft releases IE 7

Works fine for me too.

Edited by dfrancis - 21 October 2006 at 9:46pm

I still hate it, I wanted to download it and do some testing though, but it still seems naff, just a new interface, and some bad fuzzy font thing going on.

I was hoping that they had sorted out the shockingly bad, totally non-standard, code that it's RTE produced, but it appears to still be awful.

The RTE's continuity is awful, it still produces HTML tags with a mix of upper and lower case, with and without quote tag eg:-

<IMG scr=myoicture.jpg WIDTH="10" hieght=2>

I was hoping that Microsoft's press release that IE7 would be compliant with standards that it also meant the code it produced would be as well.

Seems most of what they have done is taken interface ideas from Firefox and Opera and slapped them onto IE.

For a first major release in 6 years, I don't think it shows Microsoft's commitment to the Internet, and no wonder browsers like Firefox are taking away IE's market share, which it only has because they bundle it with Windows and most users still don't realise there is an alternative.

Hopefully Firefox 2 will continue to ruin IE's dominance!

I think Firefox 2's built in in-line spelling checking on the fly beats IeSpell hands down.

I think the spell checker in Firefox is certainly the killer app for anyone who uses forums etc.