IE7 and Firefox 2 have come out. A new release of Firefox is not really big news. These are regular events after all, but the release of a new version of IE7 is something completely out of the ordinary. As far as it concerns Artumi systems, the issues are about how will our sites work? Well, the answer is flawlessly, since we do not use any of the technologies which required lots of work (ActiveX for example) we are relatively unaffected. The sites we have designed have been built to work on both Firefox and IE and so as IE7 eliminates the rendering bugs and moves closer to Firefox our sites continue to work in both.

Which is nice!

A friend of mine was talking about the import of the fact the IE7 will be downloaded as part of the Windows Update program, which means that many people who do not really care about their browsers will have the change forced upon them. This friend felt that if IE7 no longer worked with the sites that IE6 used to, because of security concerns, then there would be a flood of users to Firefox. I will be interested to see if this is the case.

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