X-Nico

unusual facts about Internet Explorer 7


Font substitution

Major modern web browsers are capable of font substitution (with the exception of versions of Internet Explorer older than version 7).


Content sniffing

For instance, Internet Explorer 7 may be tricked to run JScript in circumvention of its policy by allowing the browser to guess that an HTML-file was encoded in UTF-7.


see also

Browser wars

During December 2009 and January 2010, StatCounter reported that its statistics indicated that Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser, when counting individual browser versions, passing Internet Explorer 7 and 8 by a small margin.