[UPHPU] Swift: a web browser for Windows

[Jon Jensen]

A couple observations...

> The state of IE7 is irrelevant at this point since none of us 
> web developers can (or should) develop for it.

I'd have to disagree with that. IE 7 is in its third beta, and there will be
no more changes to the rendering/CSS engine, so now is the time to test it.
Since it will be rolled out via automatic update, it is something you should
plan/develop for -- you don't want your sites to suddenly break for the
majority of your users when IE 7 gets pushed to the masses.

It's pretty trivial to run multiple versions of IE, and it definitely
facilitates testing/development. For my purposes, I'd say I have the ideal
setup -- IE 7, standalone IE 5-6, Firefox 1.5, Netscape 6, Opera 7-8, and
Konqueror (coLinux) on my Windows machine and Safari/IE5 on a Mac Mini. 

> How many of your clients are using MSIE 7? It is going to be a
> _long_ time before it's users base is high enough that it's old
> issues are no longer issues.

Even though it's still beta software, I know of at least one big-name
company that uses IE 7 exclusively... I do consulting for CardCafe.com, and
one of their major clients is Kodak. I had to do a total review of the site
in order to ensure IE 7 compatibility, since that's the browser all of the
Kodak employees are using. They call it early adoption, I call it retarded. 

Jon