Hi. Not sure if this is the right place for my question, but I just wondered whether anyone has heard much about the immenent release of IE7. I read today that the release date has been brought forward to this year rather than wait for 'Longhorn' (I wonder if Firefox had anything to do with it). I'm curious as to what kind of CSS support the behemoth browser will have. As someone who is new to CSS and absolutely loving it (goodbye tables - It was nice knowing you, hello nice streamlined code), but constantly tearing my hair out over the inconsistancies of IE6 I await the arival of IE7 with bated breath. What do people know, what have you heard? Please tell...

Even if IE7 comes to light this year, don't expect everyone to be on it as soon as you are. If we see an IE7 release in 2005, then I expect IE5/5.5 to phase out even greater, but IE6 will still hang around for an easy 2 years.

I assume its a combination of Firefox, and security holes/exploits... but maybe the clincher may be Firefox, we'd love to speculate.

P.S.&gt; Can u post a link to the article you read... the article I've seen lately is on WaSP <i>"Standalone IE To Be Released This Summer"</i> (www.webstandards.org).

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Sure. It was on the MacUser/PCPro website. www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/69260/gates-announces-internet-explorer-70.html

Ya, how sad no mention of standards implimentation. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_blackeye.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Absolutely agree!

You would think that MS would have got the message by now that the number one priority is security, second is to confirm to all of the standards and third would be their IE specific tricks. I just hope they have got it right this time at least it'll make our developing lives easier without having to apply IE hacks to get around their cr@ppy browser.

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anyone managed to get firefox to run activex controls.....it seems to illude me

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Even AOL has stated their next browser will have two modes - standards (supposedly based on Firefox), and "old IE" mode. Maybe M$ should look into the same.

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