How irresponsible is it that even though Internet Explorer is the one browser that continues to screw up the web, it’s also the one browser that’s locked into one platform and can’t be installed on anything else?
Internet Explorer 7, despite my hopeless optimism turned out to be little more than a new interface on top of the joke that is IE6. They also removed a few quirks that don’t actually make designing for the web any easier, but wholeheartedly screw it up.
IE6 is something I can deal with. I can install it under Linux, and that’s fine. IE7 is completely unpredictable, and sufficiently different from IE6 to be concerned about. It can’t run on anything other than a validated copy of Windows XP. Not on Windows 2000, not under WINE. The only way to get it running under Linux is to buy another Windows XP license and use a virtual machine.
That is what I call irresponsible, and from a major corporation like Microsoft, I expected better. I probably shouldn’t have, but that’s beside the point.
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