IE 7 RC 1 and a list of what to expect: UW's stuff is ok I think
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on August 25, 2006 at 10:10 AM
Internet Explorer 7 has reached release candidate status which I think means it is pretty much done beyond any show stoppers that might appear. You really should have a copy of the latest build and you really should be testing because they will be forcing it on IE 6 users as a high priority update so it will likely have a large user base relatively quickly.
The IE team was nice enough to give everyone a list of things fixed, things yet to fix, and what isn’t fixed. Dave Shea points out that it is only a matter of time until we start to see the new bugs appearing and I imagine it is probably best you get testing your stuff in it now otherwise you could have some late nights ahead of you in the near future. He has a good point, get testing and document the quirks you see.
As far as UW goes, I have had a poke around with the latest IE 7 and I don’t see anything major or even minor. There were some reports of printing issues with the last beta of IE 7 but I can print any UW page just fine on Windows XP SP2 and IE 7 RC1. If you see anything though please let me know (a comment on this thread works).
Personally I hope IE 7 rids us of IE 6 much faster that IE 6 has removed IE 5.5. Maybe I speak too soon but IE 7 will make web folks jobs a lot easier…