IE, can't live with it and certainly can't depend on it.

So Microsoft did me in once again, I recently downloaded the Beta2 Version of Internet Explorer 7, just to find out that they have once again mess with the code and its HTML rendering engine.

Now all the CSS that I had reprogrammed is once again all goofy on the screen, in particular absolute positioning. I tried doing some research in order to fix this, and came across the MSDN article stating that you cannot yet determine a correct version as they use letters along with revision numbers until the beta is placed into production.

The bottom line is that Microsoft jumps the gun way too much. I know that they are beta testing their product, but a product should be fairly stable. I was quite impressed with beta 1, but beta 2 constantly crashes on my laptop and further, does not display CSS correctly like the previous version. I think they have now move the CSS support to be that of the same as Mozilla, but they provide no way to distinguish from IE6. Frankly, I recommend that you just stay away from Internet Explorer Beta2 until they fix this issues. You can read more about issues with IE7 here.