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Quote:For your website, there could be a shift in design layout. For those with more detailed database driven and ecommerce sites, there is a security change in SSL that disables Active X controls by default. This could change the way your visitors browse your products and even purchase them drastically.

Don't Panic!

Now is the time to carefully review your site. Make sure it works in this new browser before you are taken off-guard (especially if it does occur automatically around the holidays). A good suggestion is to download IE 7 to another computer (other than what you use) and begin testing your website. Changes may be very minimal, but at least you know and everything will be seamless...

Quote:When the final release for IE 7 for Windows XP, Server 2003 & Vista is launched, hopefully before the end of 2006, the tables will be turned, so to speak.

Internet Explorer 7 will be more standards compliant and your HTML code will be subject to much more rigorous interpretation than is the case with IE 6, consequently some web pages that look fine in IE 6 might not look the same IE 7.

In IE 7 Microsoft has made a solemn effort to fix the browsers acquiescence to W3C standards and CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) compatibility. CSS interpretation as recommended by W3C has been improved tremendously giving designers and developers more leverage in functionality for cross-browser design...