What's new in Internet Explorer 7...

I feel like I've posted quite a bit of information in the last few posts, so I thought I'd throw in some screenshots of some of the new stuff in IE 7 that we saw during the keynotes as well as in the "What's new in IE 7" breakout session towards the end of the day.







What you see:

1) The tab UI has been cleaned up and made a little flashier since the IE 7 Beta 1 build.
2) A quick preview of all the tabs that are currently open - thumbnails of each webpage are tiled so that the user can clearly see what's open and close any tabs that are no longer necessary. This is pretty nice functionality!
3) The famous Complexspiral CSS test/demo - this build of IE 7 finally passes this test, along with many other CSS tests. Whew!
4) Web Developer Toolbar - an addon for IE 7 that works like the web developer extension for Firefox today. This toolbar (and the Firefox extension) is an indispensable tool for web developers and includes plenty of little tools and features for "debugging" webpages, especially those involving complex layouts.
5) A zoomed-in picture of the web developer toolbar showing the various menus and functions available.
6) One of the tools provided with the toolbar functions like the DOM Inspector tool in Firefox that allows web developers to inspect the document object model of their web pages.

Tags: Vista, Longhorn, IE7, PDC05