IE7 standalone version
Microsoft will be releasing or rather forcing us to upgrade IE7 soon
(as a windows update , so we all have to get used to using this browser.
Or at least testing our designs on it. As you can see around 60% of people use IE.
| 2006 | IE7 | IE6 | IE5 | Ffox | Moz | N7/8 | O8/9 |
| August | 1.9% | 55.1% | 4.1% | 26.4% | 2.1% | 0.4% | 1.5% |
Data from W3C schools.
Only thing is for testing, its always nice to have a few versions installed on a machine to test on. This cannot be done unless you have stand alone versions of the same browser, otherwise you will just have the latest version.
So found a good link to get IE7 working on PC’s and Macs:
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
CSS Management, bugs and IE7
Also we have to be aware that although IE7 is better than previous versions, it it still not bug free.
So its recommended as discusse back in June at @media06, its best to have the bugs to display your web sites correctly in a separate file to the main/global CSS.
For example:
@import url(”main.css”);
@import url(”ie.css”);
So you know your site works well in other browsers, and you have this bug.css file to cater for IE7. And hopefully when the bugs in IE get fixed you can easily take them out from the CSS file.
Have you tested your web site in IE7, does it display correctly?