Who You Calling A Jesse?

The whole IE 7 thing has been pretty entertaining thus far. You have IT folks everywhere hyper-ventilating over a browser update that will eventually help out web standards and you have web developers (myself included) being caught in tough spots because they failed to really test IE 7 while it was in beta. My mistake was ignoring the influence of a conditional comment on printing (placing a ‘gte’ in it seems to do the trick) but other than that UW pages should be fine if you don’t have anything above your DOCTYPE and you didn’t create more conditional comments with IE specific CSS.

Roger Johansson has summed up nicely the three top reasons sites break in IE 7. I think that covers 99% of the problems. The lessons learned with IE 7 is that having a CSS/HTML site is great but if you cut corners and worked towards IE 6 in quirks mode you are likely going to pay a hefty price when an IE 7 user views your site. If you having problems with IE 7 on your site, take a look at Roger’s post. The discussion that follows on his site should be helpful as well.

Update: Wake up and smell the IE7! – Vitamin feature