Last week saw the public beta release of Microsoft’s latest browser: Internet Explorer 7, which has a significatly different User Interface (see A New Look for IE, on the Microsoft IE blog), a built in News Reader, and many other improvements.
It’ll be interesting to see if this helps IE regain it’s 90% share of the web-browser market over the next year or two… Right now, the IE7 beta release is becoming the latest piece in a long history of “Browser Wars” and Internet trends that make up the history of the World-Wide Web - a history that helps those of us learning about web design to understand where our industry is headed!
If you’re new to the world of browsers and web design, it’d be worthwhile to do a bit of research and see if you can discover some of the more significant events that are shaping the webdesign industry to the present (you could try searching for some of the following terms: browser wars, Bernes-Lee, google, NSCA Mosaic, blogging, newsfeeds, podcasting, Amazon).
If you’ve been hanging around in web design circles for a while, why not instead see what the professionals are currently saying about IE7? Will you be installing IE7 Beta2 and testing your own designs?
When you get a chance, help the rest of us learn by updating your own site with what you find out! For those people who haven’t yet been subjected to EPIC 2015, check it out a fun history and possible future for the web!