Readers of the IE Blog were warned multiple times before the release of IE 7 that some of the bug fixes included in the latest version of the browser could break websites. Because of Microsoft’s commitment to backwards compatibility, websites based on Web standards would be at the greatest risk of breaking, especially sites that use CSS files full of hacks to compensate for bugs in IE 6.

A non-scientific study of one hundred websites seems to confirm that generally, sites based on junk code display the same in IE 7 as they did in IE 6, while a number of sites that use CSS based layouts have issues. The details of the study are available in IE7: Were they ready?.

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