For an “improved web browser,” Internet Explorer 7 has much in common with a stubborn mule. No matter what you want to do, it doesn’t want to do it right now.
If you happened to visit my Terry’s Computer Tips web site late this afternoon, you might have seen what I mean…
I made some tweaks to the site and was very happy with the results in Firefox. Then, I checked the pages in Opera. Again, it was great.
But, then I looked at it with IE7 — and found a mess.
Whether it was the absolute positioning changes that I was making, or perhaps a missing or extra <div> tag, or a glitch in the JavaScript, IE7 threw away almost all the content on the page and then laid out the rest of the page in a mess. Yet, Opera and Firefox displayed the pages perfectly.
I couldn’t revert to the earlier version fast enough to suit me — but I got there.
Gee, and I thought the strangenesses of IE6 were bad — at least it would usually display the contents in almost the right location.
