Just downloaded IE7, for those who couldn't find it at MSDN, it is located in the tree at operating systems then Internet Explorer.
I would like to say that the tabs are a welcome addition, I use "Open in new window" all the time and now I'm going to use "Open in new Tab". This feature ROCKS. While setting my homepage I wondered how IE7 would react to RSS feeds. I browsed to my own blog and a little icon in the toolbar got colored. This means rss feed detected, push on it and it opens a nice page showing the rss feed, add it to favourites and done. In windows Vista this will be improved by the store-and-sync engine for rss feeds, a common engine so any application can get the rss feeds from there.
And of course there is a lot more to explore, like the new Toolbar search box, shrink to fit printing, more security improvements and more control over add-ons.
When downloading also check the technical overview.
With all the excitement on Windows Vista one would forget Internet Explorer 7 that is included in Windows Vista Beta. The ones not downloading Vista can still try the release of IE7 for XP, it is available for download on MSDN subscribers.
Monday afternoon my boss indicated me about a problem with the company website I builded. It seemed it didn't showed up like it should in Firefox, some kind of new web browser. So I did what was expected, downloaded the new web browser and looked full of expectation to the screen. And indeed the stylesheet didn't work as expected, checked out some newsgroups and the problem was known. It seemed that I was using a stylesheet that was not in accordance with the standard stylesheet specification. So I ran it through the W3C stylesheet verificator, no problem there except the gradiant specification, which is specific to IE. So why is it not showing correctly, well because there is no support to specify the width of an A tag.
Now, when I should be building a new and better web browser than the most used web browser in the world, I would make sure I at least supported the features of that web browser. I have a message to all that coders on Firefox, before you start shouting at IE, first try to write a product that is as good as IE, then you can build new features in it.
This is the problem with all kind of open source products written by a bunch of people hoping to defeat the biggest software company in the world. They concentrate on destroying the competetion instead of first building a product that as the same features and then improving it. They look like poor "Civilization" players, going to battle with a stick while the enemy is using nuclear force.
And you guys that are giving the software away to make my life easier, remember this : because you wrote a web browser that doesn't support the features of IE, I need to rewrite the website. And don't argue that IE doesn't support the standard, if there are new features then the standard is lacking and that can't stop progress.
Back to the drawing board, Firefox coders !!!