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Three reasons sites break in Internet Explorer 7
Published November 18th, 2006 in All Categories, Internet Explorer 7
Readers of the IE Blog were warned multiple times before the release of IE 7 that some of the bug ![internet explorer page [od].jpg](/wp-content/uploads/internet explorer page [od].jpg "internet explorer page [od].jpg")
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?.
My guess is that most sites that have rendering issues fall into one of three categories Three reasons sites break in Internet Explorer 7 | 456 Berea Street
