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12.7 million websites not ready for IE7
Published October 27th, 2006 in All Categories, Internet Explorer 7
…Thirteen of the FTSE 100 homepages that we tested were broken in IE7 - although not 
significantly so. Problems ranged from warped page layouts (Alliance and Leicester) to small presentation glitches (Hanson).
It’s worth pointing out however that the general lack of adherence to web standards amongst the FTSE 100 companies may have insulated them somewhat from IE7’s various bugs and glitches (IE7 tends to struggle most with standards-compliant sites - particularly those using hacks and filters to achieve decent presentation in IE6). Given that most sites aren’t standards-compliant however, we think our results are pretty representative.
Generalising our findings to the internet as a whole - which is admittedly of dubious meaning and therefore should be taken with a pinch of salt - suggests that there are around 12.7 million websites in need of a little TLC as a result of the introduction of IE7. IE7: Were they ready? - Blog - Etre
