Well, there's really nothing major that IE 7 breaks. In most cases it's people complaining about things they have NOT fixed yet, or people still complaining about the lawsuit breaking every website that uses Flash, which affected IE 6 anyway (but will continue to affect 7.0 and all future Microsoft browsers).

I use FireFox 2.0 for my own use. For businesses, I'd just go ahead and install IE 7.0 for them assuming they are a Microsoft shop. Microsoft is still tied to IE despite any lawsuits. MOST Microsoft products and websites will not work without IE, so you might as well have their latest and most supported version. Long story short, tabbed browsing and anti-phishing is a welcome addition.

With pop-ups, well I hate seeing pop-ups and I hate making them (as a programmer). It's very hard to maintain persistence when you're using pop-ups as part of the interface. With DHTML or "AJAX" or whatever they are calling it now, you can create an even better user experience anyway. But with both IE and Firefox starting to either block or put pop-ups in a tab, this gives me ammunition to work with when explaining to my clients why pop-ups are bad! "Well see they don't work anymore -- look it popped up in another tab!"

For web developers & designers, you need to have all the major browsers on hand, but it's ok just to use FireFox for your initial testing. If you start doing something new, like use of a style or div you've never tried before, you better test it on a number of browsers before you get in too deep with it.

I've not looked into how to install multiple versions of IE on a single computer. Seems like Microsoft would have a solution for this other than "buy another computer and not upgrade to IE 7."

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Jason Honingford - Web & Software Developer
www.PortVista.com