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1. #1 On March 1, 2006 06:24 PM Aaron Gustafson said:

   So exciting... can't wait to get to play with the new IE7. Of course it does mean fewer $ for me in consulting fees if all of my old designs work in the new IE ;-)

2. #2 On March 1, 2006 06:27 PM Matt Robin said:

   This is really encouraging news Andy - I wish I was a fly on the wall at the MIX 06....(a wall at the back so that I could see the screen!)

   And look - hey - your site is looking much better in that MIX 06 beta than it was in the beta preview. Great news for all sites Andy. :)

3. #3 On March 1, 2006 07:05 PM Carl Camera said:

   WooHoo! This news is quite timely. My MSDN subscription confirmation email arrived yesterday. I'm confident the new beta version will be available from MSDN since MSDN was the only place that Beta1 was released. Hopefully enough improvements were made in IE so my nickrigby menu flyouts on one of my sites won't have to be completely reworked...

4. #4 On March 1, 2006 07:10 PM Ryan Brill said:

   That is some very good news. Something to smile about today...

5. #5 On March 1, 2006 11:12 PM Matt said:

   I'm wary that the IE people may be fixing only the bugs that manifest themselves in sites such as these that are publicly being talked about having incompatibilities?

   On the other hand, if these sites contain one of each bug and they're all fixed then we're rocking.

6. #6 On March 2, 2006 12:05 AM Ben Buchanan said:

   Bar a few very minor issues, the MIX 06 beta displays Gemination exactly like modern browsers. Simply amazing.

   "Amazing" yes... never thought I'd see the day that IE was favourably compared with modern browsers! ;)

7. #7 On March 2, 2006 09:38 AM Robert Wellock said:

   Well, they are only about 7-years behind so it is about time they started fixing some CSS bugs.

8. #8 On March 2, 2006 04:24 PM bongi said:

   thank **** at last

9. #9 On March 2, 2006 05:20 PM Nicole said:

   Excellent news. Here's hoping they can get even more fixes in before that conference.

10. #10 On March 3, 2006 12:57 AM Lawrence Meckan said:

    Finally it looks like all modern browsers will be in step with one another.

    Now if only they could get IE to pass the Acid2 test..

11. #11 On March 4, 2006 10:20 PM Sbastien Guillon said:

    (rubbing eyes and leaning forward): Whaaaa???

    So now we can't say IE suck anymore?

12. #12 On March 4, 2006 10:50 PM Malarkey said:

    @ Lawrence Meckan: "Now if only they could get IE to pass the Acid2 test.."

    A topic much discussed at the W3C meeting I just returned from. Personally I would prefer IE7 to be CSS bug free and have full support for CSS2.1 now rather than wait for a version which fully passes the full range of tests in Acid2 such as 'data URL'.

    @ Sbastien Guillon: "So now we can't say IE suck anymore?"

    I hope that we won't need to.

13. #13 On March 5, 2006 08:46 PM Harry Jones said:

    At last! This is awesome news.

    I guess the real question now is how long the crossover period between IE6 and IE7 will be.

    Let's hope Micro$oft market IE7 agressively (and in Windows update) so that IE7 gains the majority quickly.

    Anyway, nice one Andy! Well done for all your hard work on this!

14. #14 On March 7, 2006 11:08 PM Ashley said:

    I think that Microsoft will no doubt put alot of money and resources in marketing and will also make alot from it"s loyal followers! Should be interesting to work with that is for sure!

15. #15 On March 9, 2006 12:53 AM Cliftonite said:

    Though it's great for MS to keep pushing forward, I can't help but want to see Firefox rise and reign forever. IE will likely be playing catch-up for years to come. It's nice to know that your grandma, who forever uses the browser installed with Windows, will be able to see un-broken versions of your work.

    Now I just need to get grandma online.

16. #16 On March 9, 2006 01:10 PM Egor Kloos said:

    Great to see that my concept still holds true in IE7. Concidering it's 2 and half years old. Now we're going to have to find new things to complain about.

17. #17 On March 9, 2006 08:00 PM Britney said:

    Should be alot fo fun to play with and to see what it can do. I just hope to be able to surf the web with one browser and feel confident in it:s capabilities which I am sure will happen with IE7

18. #18 On March 10, 2006 07:45 AM vtondrjc said:

    I have not been able to find any statements by Microsoft (or anybody else, for that matter) on the support of w3c DOM level 1 and 2 in IE7.

    Can someone help please?

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