This is the question many website owners are having to face as version 7 of IE is being worked on. What will it support? Will older sites, designed purely for IE versions 5 or 6 be able to work in the new version?
Earlier versions of IE ignored the standards as agreed by W3C, the group of people who develop these standards to try to make the world wide web available to everyone whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability. Many calls for better support for internet/w3c standards within IE leave fears that existing sites may not even work in the new version.
With the largest market share of browsers being IE many designers could get away with creating sites purely for IE users. Extensive testing will need to be performed for many companies where this has been allowed to happen.
IE 7 is due to be released as a Beta version, purely for testing in the summer of 2005 and for final release later in the year.
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