Got them IE7 blues

Is it just me or is IE7 even more hopelessly broken than IE6?

IE7 was supposed to mark a movement towards standards compliance, yet it seems as though there’s even more stuff that doesn’t work right. Even the long-promising alpha-transparency PNG fix is only half-functional.

I checked around, and the official IE7 blog keeps asking people to make changes to their code.

Microsoft developers, here’s a free tip: If a large percentage of people have to change their sites to comply with your browser, then you didn’t fix anything. You made a change. There’s a difference.

Now, here’s an area where FLOSS could really shine, at least to us web geeks.

Browser programmers don’t exist, per se, to write HTML/CSS/XML rendering software. They itch their own personal scratches, in terms of features and functionality.

Firefox was created to be sleek and fast, and help push the tabbed-browsing concept forward. IE7’s most-discussed new functionality is in the realm of helping people better understand the trustworthiness of a given website.

Why then, don’t developers pool their resources and create an open-source rendering engine? (Or, why doesn’t Microsoft just adopt Mozilla’s Gecko?)

Just a thought.