Installing plug ins for firefox is annoying when you need to see something really quick and you have to downalod it. But Firefox is more secure as everyone says. I wish IE was more html strict make all the browswer strict so we don't have conflict between what we see on each computer screens.

All things alone... how many years did it take for them to put this in? I remember designing a forum theme about 3 years ago and using pngs and annoying all IE users causing them to switch to mozilla...

Nope. IE would have to become about 10 times better than anything out there to limit complaints. As long as it's not the best there is, people will complain. And at the moment you can't blame anyone for doing so, IE is really outdated, and there are a few good alternatives (like Firefox and Opera).

I still think it's a bit of a shame that there aren't more browsers, I like diversity. A port to windows of the KHTML rendering engine for instance, and perhaps Amaya in a not too distant future would be nice to see.

From website designer point of view I hope it will be standard browser and not semi-standard again. I don't know what ppl at Microsoft are doing so long and are not able to put up standard browser.

From my point of view I only hope it will be fully standard W3C. Thats all, cause I always have problems in webdesigning.

I just IE7 will be fully w3c standard.

I just hope Internet Explorer will be standard W3C browser like Firefox, to get rid if if IE variables in somehow 10 years.

It is nice to hear that Microsoft is trying to show efforts in making their browser better, but even if it were to be much better, everyone will still have the same old image of Internet Explorer as before, meaning that the average person won't care about it and not bother downloading and upgrading to the newer version. I think that the only chance that Microsoft has of resurrecting the glory days of Internet Explorer is with the release of Microsoft's new operating system, Longhorn. Then, people will have no choice but to try out the new browser as it will be the only one available at the time. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see where Microsoft goes with this.

AmeriBass

Thanks for the news.

Hmm altrough I like Mozilla FireFox much more, Internet Explorer is much easier to spell so I'll give it a try... (that was a joke)

Anyway, I'll be sticking with Firefox, but giving Internet Explorer a test drive wouldnt hurt much (I hope) so I'll check it out once its released. Firefox will probably still be superior to it...

im using Maxthon explorer. its cool. i think its much better than ie7.

I think the IE 7 will be included with windows longhorn, if so then im just getting lh, lol, but i like the tabbed browsing, i hope they use the same hotkeys tho, themes would be nice but not totally needed for me, i have windowblinds for that, more security would be a great help, and a better download manager in it aswell, I use ie sometimes for things like .net stuff (hotmail, msn spaces, etc) because they work best with it, and well im really glad to hear that they are finally fixing the png format for it aswell. that would be like a dream come true, lol