Microsoft prepares IE7 Beta 3 for a mid-August public release

A Microsoft source has quietly leaked that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 will be availible to the public sometime in mid-August of this year. This goes hand-in-hand with official MS reports that they are indeed working on Beta 3 at the moment. One fix going in Beta 3 will be will be to revert back to an IE6 behavior when using PHP pages. One IE7 tester noted that "when it comes to compare the code in the session variable and the code in the post data, they’re different." Eric Lawrence of Microsoft responded with "for compatibility reasons, we’re going to revert to IE6 behavior for IE7 Beta 3 to prevent this exact issue" on the subject. In the past few weeks Microsoft has made a few references to Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 on their IE Blogs about bug fixes and releases.