Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Released

Kawahee writes "Microsoft, in conjunction with the announcement that they have finished Windows Vista RC1 have released Internet Explorer 7 RC1. Further commentary from the IE Blog post: 'The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility. You may not notice many visible changes from the Beta 3 release; all we did was listen to your feedback, fix bugs that you reported, and make final adjustments to our CSS support.'"

Obligatory joke

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but does it run Linux?

Re:Obligatory joke

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but does it run Linux?

Thank God, no!

Blink Support?

[Quintios]

It still pisses me off that IE doesn't support the BLINK tag. What a bunch of crap, MS. :\

Re:Can't customize the toolbar

[protohiro1]

Minuses...it thrashes the layout on slashdot. I don't know why, but it does. I guess we are all going to be working on IE7 fixed for the next year...

Re:Can a release candidate be released then?

[Shadyman]

What seems most "wrong" here is that Microsoft, of all people, put out a Release Candidate. I thought their methodology was to post real verions and wait for the bug reports?

Re:CSS = ACID?

[Anonymous Coward]

indeed i do

http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ie8acidgd 0.jpg [imageshack.us]

for those of you who cant view this, its IE8 passing Acid test with flying colors.

Re:I have a problem with IE7

[Anonymous Coward]

Hrm, how about going to settings and clearing the checkbox for "Enable tabbed browsing"

Wow, that was tough.