IE7 CSS Updates

Curious about Vista and even more so, IE 7? Then you might just want to take a gander at this article.

An XP-compatible version is available from a third party if you have a BitTorrent client. This is probably breaking all sorts of terms and conditions though, and likely won’t last. Grab it while you can. (Update: Upon further investigation, the site in question is a BitTorrent tracking site with links to all sorts of other copyrighted material. Since an XP-compatible version of the beta wasn’t announced, I’m guessing it’s probably not a good idea for me to recommend that anyone download it. So, don’t.) My review is based on this version, so if there are significant differences between it and the version that comes with Vista, then this review may be inaccurate.

The first thing you’ll notice upon installing is that it completely replaces IE6, which has been typical IE behaviour since, well, forever. Hence the classic problem of testing multiple versions on one system, until Joe Maddalone came along two years ago and solved the problem for us. Now we need to add a new version to the list of IE archives… for the time being, you can grab the IE6 Eolas Edition which isn’t functionally different from regular IE6 (except for the annoying ‘Click Here to Continue Loading this page’ dialogues) and it will work as expected alongside IE7b1 and your older archives. [Read the rest]