[UPHPU] Swift: a web browser for Windows

[Jon Jensen]

> In my opinion, that's pretty optimistic. Very optimistic. And 
> I'm an optimist myself, almost to a fault. Judging by the 
> betas they've released so far, I expect that MSIE7 will 
> become yet another layer of hacks that people will need to 
> apply, since now you'll have to do different things not just 
> for MSIE, but for MSIE6 _and_ MSIE7, which will have 
> different bugs and shortcomings.

So far I have been pleasantly surprised with IE 7 Beta. I've updated several
sites to ensure IE 7 compliance, and it has been suprisingly easy. I would
say about 99.9% of my original CSS worked without a hitch in IE 7. The
remaining 0.1% was fairly trivial to tweak.

When I say original CSS, I am referring to the standard CSS served up to
Mozilla/Opera/Safari, and not IE-specific stylesheets. All of those hacks I
use for IE 6 and below have not been necessary in IE 7... float issues,
double-margins, peekaboo, and most of my other "favorite" bugs have been
fixed in IE 7.

True, IE 7 is about 5 years overdue. And while it's still not 100%
standards-compliant, no browser can truly claim to be. The fact that I don't
need another layer of hacks is enough to make me happy.

Jon