Tony is one of the developers at Microsoft working on IE7 and gave us a talk on where they are heading with IE7, what it is and what it isn’t. Dealt with the animosity towards Microsoft really humorously – apologies for IE6, which received a round of applause.
Talked about needing to rebuild the IE team after it was pretty much disbanded. Web browsing isn’t about the browser. Introducing a lot of features that help IE catch up. One was tabbed browsing, one of the cool parts to this is that you could see thumbnails of the tabs that are open to help navigate between them.
Zooming was another cool feature, letting people zoom the page while maintaining the relational integrity of the site’s design. Printing will now scale by default rather than cutting the side off the page.
It does look a bit like Safari which is interesting. A huge focus on fixing bugs and improving security exponentially. All but one of the bugs on positioniseverything.net has been resolved bar one. Couldn’t tell me which one it was when asked.
