Internet Explorer v7 (beta) is out

[Alex]

Explorer is 5.5 and 6 are not great on standards adoption, but rather by default of wide usage have created their own standard.

This started because IE 5.5 was much more compliant than Netscape 4.x and created a lot of habit among coders that work great for IE but not in newer more standards compliant browsers (Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, etc.).

At least at inception, the new Mouseplanet was 99% compliant and all the hacks in place are there to make things look right on IE. With my luck, IE7 will break all of them and I'll have to figure out how to hack together stylesheets that work on IE5.5 and 7 without serving separate style sheets and relying on browser sniffing.