Saturday, June 03, 2006
IE 7 Beta 3 comming August
Microsoft released IE 7 Beta 1 to the public in January. Quite a lot of users were perplexed by the bizarre user interface arrangement—specifically, the menu bar being sandwiched between the address bar and the tab bar. Some felt that the browser was still playing catch-up to competitors such as Firefox.
Beta 2 went public in April, after Microsoft announced that the layout and rendering engine for IE 7 was "feature complete" and that no new changes, other than bug fixes, would be made outside of the user interface.
Now Microsoft is preparing a third beta, to be released some time in August. The extended beta period seems to have been prompted by compatibility issues that users have found with the first two IE 7 betas.
Read the full article at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060602-6978.html
Beta 2 went public in April, after Microsoft announced that the layout and rendering engine for IE 7 was "feature complete" and that no new changes, other than bug fixes, would be made outside of the user interface.
Now Microsoft is preparing a third beta, to be released some time in August. The extended beta period seems to have been prompted by compatibility issues that users have found with the first two IE 7 betas.
Read the full article at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060602-6978.html
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 8:54 PM 
