[IE7] New list of CSS fixes

Augmented · 23 Aug 2006 at 16:25

Over 200 fixes and features. Looks like they've been hard at it, and produced a really promising set of fixes for the first release: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712830.aspx

And in other news, check out what Adobe are bookmarking over at del.icio.us :cool:

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iCraig · 23 Aug 2006 at 19:01

Excellent. I wonder how many people will be upgraded to IE7 in one foul swoop once it hits Live Update.

arty · 23 Aug 2006 at 19:25

Does anyone know of a full list of what is supported / unsupported in IE6 vs. 7 as published by MS? A full bug list of IE6 and what has been fixed in 7 would also be useful.

It's a shame they won't take the approach of removing quirks mode altogether. No other markup language has error-fixing, so why should HTML?

arty

Inquisitor · 23 Aug 2006 at 19:46

Looking very good

Finally there's better support for selectors, and :hover on all elements :cool:

Sic · 23 Aug 2006 at 22:17

woohoo! now all we need is for it to be a forced download for ALL windows users connected to the internet..

and then i wake up and smell the fresh coffee.

Caged · 23 Aug 2006 at 22:34

It will be released as a critical update and installed automatically.

toString · 23 Aug 2006 at 22:53

Half of me is happy, the other half thinks "great another browser to test in!" :cool:

JonD · 23 Aug 2006 at 23:50

When is it being released?

The most annoying thing about IE is the lack of PNG support, hate sticking to gifs, PNGs are so much better.

robmiller · 24 Aug 2006 at 00:28

Saw this a couple of days ago. Very excited at the sheer number of fixes included, slightly apprehensive that it appears to only be XPSP2 and above, and very happy that it's going to be marked as a critical update.

NathanE · 24 Aug 2006 at 08:01

Inquisitor said:
and :hover on all elements

I thought that was a proprietary feature of the OSS browsers?

probedb · 24 Aug 2006 at 09:23

arty said:
It's a shame they won't take the approach of removing quirks mode altogether. No other markup language has error-fixing, so why should HTML?

Firefox has a Quirks Mode too...look at the render mode in the Page Info when there's no doctype.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=56998 pushes it into Quirks Mode.

I think it's just due to the number of very badly written websites that developed in the early days of the web and they're afraid of alienating these people...unfortunately. Be a laugh to see some big corporations have to fix thair websites pronto

Augmented · 24 Aug 2006 at 09:24

JonD said:
The most annoying thing about IE is the lack of PNG support, hate sticking to gifs, PNGs are so much better.

Indeed, PNGs are a lot better, and PNG support is in IE and has been for a long while. What it (<=IE6) doesn't support natively is alpha-channel [partial] transparency, while it does support 1-bit on/off transparency like GIF. There's no reason to be using GIF over PNG unless you need animation, as we're unlikely to see widespread MNG takeup.

robmiller · 24 Aug 2006 at 15:02

NathanE said:
I thought that was a proprietary feature of the OSS browsers?

No :/ I'm 99% certain it's been in the CSS 2 spec from the start.

Augmented · 24 Aug 2006 at 15:18

robmiller said:
No :/ I'm 99% certain it's been in the CSS 2 spec from the start.

Yep.

Proprietary features in CSS should be indicated by a 'vendor-specific' prefix, like -moz-. An initial dash or underscore followed by an identifier. Naturally, Microsoft's prefix is mso-

. Apparently there was actually no formal spec for prefixes at the time, so we can let them off.

arty · 24 Aug 2006 at 19:26

probedb said:
Firefox has a Quirks Mode too...look at the render mode in the Page Info when there's no doctype.

I know. I wish they'd remove it too, really, but people would just complain. If MS do it then everyone can, pretty much.

arty