Rant V - IE7
Microsoft is finally going to get in gear. Chris Wilson, one of the developers of Internet Explorer 7, posted on the IE Blog that they will finally properly support CSS and PNG alpha channels.
My response: it’s about time. Mr. Wilson says they’re listening to web developers, but where was that a year ago? Two years? Three? Seven? The latest major release they had was Internet Explorer 5, with version 6 being a security and bug fix, if that. That’s seven years of having the number one browser in the market stagnant. Seven years of misery as Web Developers have to hack their own code just to get it to look right in Internet Explorer 5 and 6. Some may say better late than never, but that doesn’t hold true in this instance.
I say Long Live Firefox, Long Live Safari, and Long Live Opera.
Viva la Revolución!
Shawn said...
I really can’t wait for this to hit and watch all of the webbys run around fixing their now broken web pages. This is welcome, but its gonna raise hell when it hits. Hacks for MSIE bugs are everywhere, in fact I use them in quite a few places. I really hope they do a developer release first so we can have a head start on the public.
April 27, 2005 @ 03:05 PM