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entwisi · 14-03-2007, 07:43

Last version I used was a late beta so some features may have made it in that weren't there when I last tried it. I'm genuinely happy that those of you who do use IE have a browser that is far more secure than the old IE6. I'm also happy that web developers will now have to be far better at their jobs as this will help those of us who do use other browsers that are W3C complient.

One point about sites that 'don't work' in other browsers. Quite often these sites will actually work perfectly if you get them to report that they are IE. There is a thing called a user agent where a website can ask what browser/OS/etc you are using and then do stuff dependant on that. By 'faking' you are a IE user on XP will make these dodgy sites work in 90% of cases. Its just lazy developers again who can't be bothered to test in other cominations so they say it won't work as a cop out

14-03-2007, 07:43	#19
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: internet explorer 7? Last version I used was a late beta so some features may have made it in that weren't there when I last tried it. I'm genuinely happy that those of you who do use IE have a browser that is far more secure than the old IE6. I'm also happy that web developers will now have to be far better at their jobs as this will help those of us who do use other browsers that are W3C complient. One point about sites that 'don't work' in other browsers. Quite often these sites will actually work perfectly if you get them to report that they are IE. There is a thing called a user agent where a website can ask what browser/OS/etc you are using and then do stuff dependant on that. By 'faking' you are a IE user on XP will make these dodgy sites work in 90% of cases. Its just lazy developers again who can't be bothered to test in other cominations so they say it won't work as a cop out __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?