Microsoft has announced that it will automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. It will use its Automatic Updates service to do this. However, people will be able to choose whether they want to install it or not.

After notifying users that IE 7 is ready to download, this welcome screen presents some key IE 7 features and the choices to install, not install or postpone installation.

IE 7 seems to have made significant improvements in its support for CSS and web standards, but there are at least 2 known bugs that are not likely to be fixed before release to the public.

Absolute position box model

When an absolutely positioned element is assigned borders or padding - and a width - , the box-model width calculation is incorrect. In this case, the flyout sub-menus in the menu at left are absolutely positioned and have borders assigned, as well as a width. The right border is not rendered correctly and the background becomes transparent where overlaps occur. This is a new bug not present in IE6.

List item white space

The list item vertical gap bug causes list items that contain block links to have vertical gaps.

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