IE6... no need to fear
Internet Explorer 6 has been out of Beta for a bit now, but many people did not trust it because you can't go back to version 5 if you install it.
But fear no more... It works great!!
Most users wont even notice that it's been installed. Every site that's been tested on the new browser, looks exactly the same... even better in some cases because of the improved CSS Support.
Most of the new features are aimed at Client-Side Javascript developers who use DHTML. Most noticable are the Full DOM 1, and CSS 1 Support. It can now compete with Netscape 6 in saying that it's "standards compliant".
But, like I said before, the only thing most users will notice, will be the nifty new logo (looks more 3-d).
Comments
Slight bug
There is at least one issue with IE6. It carries table alignment through the table, to the child cells.
You can see an example here: http://deniswilford.com/test/ie6bug.html
RE: Slight bug
Doh!!!
I guess you can't have it all... hopefully that wont affect many people...
But I guess it's not really their fault... people complain that the browsers arent compliant, yet the new browsers come out that are totally compliant, and people complain again because their sites aren't written in compliant HTML or Javascript.
Hopefully the next version of DW/UD will use XHTML... I think that will solve alot of these problems.
Still do not install
The biggest reason why I am not installing IE 6 is that I want to be able to test my sites in IE5 also. And then I would need a seperate machine for that which I do not have! The fact that I now have IE5.5 and can not test for IE5.0 is bad enough.
Conclusion: I will have to wait till I have a second machine or till the majority of surfers use IE6.
RE: Slight bug
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