Christian Montoya wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[email protected]>
IE7 is "dead" - meaning: "stable",
Ah, well, most people would consider "dead" and "stable" to be two
entirely different things. Dead is more akin to "abandoned" or
"unsupported."
OK, guess my choice of word can easily be misunderstood.
I consider software to be dead and stable the moment a real successor is
on its way, and the old piece isn't upgraded any more and can be safely
separated from all others. IE7 is there now, IMO.
I place FF2 in the same category btw, although is is slightly harder to
separate it safely from its successor - FF3.
And it's still entirely possible that while Microsoft is supporting
IE 7, they could release a patch for it, if they ever decide they
need to.
IE7 is supported in the sense that it gets security patches and alike
when there's a need for it.
Its rendering engine won't see any major upgrades, simply because of Ms
fear of "breaking the web". That fear has been sufficiently documented
and demonstrated by now.
IE8 is the major upgrade of/from IE7, and the only potential problem
here is that IE8 will not be able to emulate IE7' rendering perfectly
down to the minutest details and combinations - there are simply too
many details and combinations to test and tune.
regards
Georg
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