Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 Preview
IE7's beta 2 preview has been released for public download, so long as you're using Windows XP SP2.
The beta boasts features such as tabbed browsing, toolbar search boxes, streamlined user interface, and instant RSS feeds . . . all items that I have been using with Firefox for well over a year.
Surprisingly, the developers bothered to listen to feedback posted on some sites such as Position Is Everything's "Explorer Exposed" page. Of course, the key word (their choice) was that they fixed most of the bugs posted there. They also enabled :hover on all elements, not just on <a> tags, which is welcome news to me.
All in all, reading through the changes, I am pleased that Microsoft has finally gotten on the ball, fixed some of their most heinous issues, and actually started conforming to standards, instead of expecting the standards to conform to them.
But still, so what? Even if IE7 is created equal to Firefox (which I am not going to claim), it won't matter for long, because Microsoft doesn't fix their bugs. Firefox bugs are fixed even before they can be exploited. Use Firefox, not Internet Explorer. End of story.
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