IE7: Busted!
In the months leading up to launch of the long-awaited Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft had advised businesses to test their websites with beta versions of IE7.
Why? Because updates made to Internet Explorer's rendering engine meant that they couldn't guarantee that sites that worked perfectly in IE6 would perform similarly in IE7.
The bottom line - these chaps compared all of the FTSE 100 sites in both IE6 and IE7, and 13 of these sites are 'broken' in IE7. Furthermore, some serious presentation problems with the sites of a number of major UK retailers. Here are the results (brace yourself)...
Based on this, and taken with a generous pinch of salt, you could argue that some 12.7 million sites are now broken due to IE7's inability to handle standards-complaint HTML and CSS.... Therefore, that's more work for us designers and developers then, isn't it? ;-)
Why? Because updates made to Internet Explorer's rendering engine meant that they couldn't guarantee that sites that worked perfectly in IE6 would perform similarly in IE7.
The bottom line - these chaps compared all of the FTSE 100 sites in both IE6 and IE7, and 13 of these sites are 'broken' in IE7. Furthermore, some serious presentation problems with the sites of a number of major UK retailers. Here are the results (brace yourself)...
Based on this, and taken with a generous pinch of salt, you could argue that some 12.7 million sites are now broken due to IE7's inability to handle standards-complaint HTML and CSS.... Therefore, that's more work for us designers and developers then, isn't it? ;-)
2 Comments:
Thanks for featuring our IE7 study !
You might also be interested in "five days / five heatmaps" - another of our studies that involved using eye tracking technology to assess the performance of five of the UK's largest online retail sites.
At last, my comment virginity is now broken - thanks Simon! :-)
Loved the IE7 article by the way, what an eye-opener! I haven't personally had any issues with IE7 in terms of visual rendering (yet!), but time will tell I'm sure.
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