Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Dec 2005 20:16 UTC
Microsoft postponed the introduction of the next test release of its Internet Explorer 7 Web browser until sometime in 2006, according to comments posted to the company's site for software developers. In a blog posting on the software giant's MSDN developer site, Dean Hachamovitch, product line manager for IE at Microsoft, said that the company will post an "updated pre-release build of IE 7 for Windows XP publicly" during the first calendar quarter of 2006. The IE team leader indicated that people interested in gaining access to the browser preview would not need to be members of the MSDN community. In related news, there's an exploit in Firefox 1.5 on Windows SP2.
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2005-07-06
Well, there is optimal experience in IE, and there is optimal experience in Firefox.
As Firefox have more to give, chances are that the pages will look better in Firefox but that doesn't nesessarily mean that they look bad in IE, just not as good as they do in Firefox.
As Firefox have something between 5 and 30% of the market (depending on what market you aim for), it probably would be a good call in most cases to make the pages look good in both or more browsers.
If you write code that conforms to standards, your pages will probably look good in IE. It is not that bad after all. It is only that int Firefox, the web developer will have a few more standards to play around with to make the pages even better.
If you ever looked at the old Firefox home page in IE and compared it to how it looked in Firefox you know what I mean.
Besides, if you make standards compliant pages, there is much less risk that the page will not work, if users for one reason or another decides to switch browsers as users tend to to as soon as there is a security alert. If you follow the standard it shouldn't matter if they use IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror or something else.
And yes, a professional web developer can make beautiful pages that follows even the limited set of standards given by IE.