• Reported by liorean

While developers are standing still, watching Internet Explorer 6 numbers rise and trying to figure out how to make it do the things that it wasn't made to do, things are happening elsewhere. In the news, Opera moved 7.50 ahead on all desktop environments, it's now in it's first beta. This browser maybe doesn't add that much on Opera 7.23 when it comes to styling, but as the JavaScripter I am I certainly welcome the additions in DOM and scripting in XML - and a speedup that makes it a very worthy opponent to Firefox. At the same time, Mozilla aren't standing still. Firefox 1.0 is going to be developed from Mozilla 1.7, and this made Mozilla change which release is going to be the next stable one from 1.8 to 1.7. A first release candidate for Mozilla 1.7 has been released. Also, the no-as-dead-as-we-have-been-led-to-believe Netscape will release a 7.2 version based on this release sometime in the future, which is certainly a welcome improvement on 7.1, which is based on the 1.4 release.