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Upgrade Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) to 7.0

July 9, 2004 Views (15,723) /  Comments (7) /  Trackback (0) / Digg/Share


Just learned about this at a recent conference. You can now download a neat library from Dean Edwards that will upgrade your IE to 7.0 levels:

This download (as mentioned, *still in alpha*) fixes problems with IE’s CSS support. Now you can have pure CSS menus in IE, which previously worked only in other browsers such as Mozilla!

Addendum: Please note that this is not from Microsoft, as mentioned by Dean in comment 1.

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^1 Dean Edwards said on July 9, 2004 9:07 PM:

This is *NOT* from Microsoft. It is my own library that is included in web pages to fix known rendering problems.

^2 Shashank said on July 10, 2004 12:48 AM:

Thanks Dean. Have updated the entry. It’s a cool hack!

^3 mangle said on July 11, 2004 12:11 PM:

How is this 7.0 different from fake browser stamps?
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum39/1986.htm

^4 Shashank said on July 15, 2004 11:22 PM:

Mangle, I guess that’s a rhetorical question? Fake stamps are easy to manipulate in your browser, they don’t really carry much meaning. I could ask my Opera to declare itself to web servers as “MSIE 10.56.190.1” for all you know.

The above set of libraries is, as Dean clarified, not really MSIE7.0 but some code that equips IE to handle some CSS hacks easily. HTH.

^5 Nic said on September 16, 2004 4:22 AM:

Hi, unzipped to folder as in instructions. Not sure if it is working or not as instruction mention server?

I do have Firefox and access via IE does now seem as quick.

Nick

^6 compzmo said on October 30, 2004 4:24 AM:

I recently built my first computer AMD 3000+64 cpu
,ASUS k8v motherboard ,pc 3200 512 ram ,ATI 9800
pro 256 mb video card ,avermedia tv/pvr card ,
dvdr/cdrw phillips dvd 4x burner , Windows xp pro
I believe i am gonna regret it i was told a new motherboard and pci card is going to be realeased
soon oh well anyway i am having a problem with internet explorer it when loaded lets pop ups from
hell overload me i have to click my but off to shut it down i ran adware 6 . I am able to use avant without trouble after i ran adware 6 , before that i couldnt even get online !! I am wondering if someone could give some help I am a veitnam era vet and i am surprized that i was able to put the hardware in without a flaw ! but the software was another story i needed help i will hopefully build another soon and demand that
i do it alone anyways i can be emailed at dream64bit@msn.com i thank you in advance
With warm regards
Dave

^7 Killerapps said on February 23, 2005 1:35 AM:

Just how successful /stable is this library. Have you actually tried it out yet?

 

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