IE7 CSS fixes

Time to fix a few sites...

Many people have used css on their sites in a manner that looks good in IE but appears broken in FireFox, Opera, Netscape, etc. Actually, it is IE that has the worst adherence to CSS standards and the other browers are closer to being correct.

In the next few months, MS will release  version 7 (currently in beta). When it's deployed, sites which currently look ok in IE but not in FF will look broken in IE as well. I've visited a some sites with the IE7 beta browser that look very bad but looked ok in IE6.

I'd encourage everyone who has css on a site that doesn't work in FF like it does in IE to either have a working FF version of their css available when IE7 is released or change their current CSS to look ok in both FF and IE by using IE "hacks".


The new version of IE which is currently in Beta will fix the following items that are currently broke in IE's implementation of CSS.
        * Peekaboo bug
        * Guillotine bug
        * Duplicate Character bug
        * Border Chaos
        * No Scroll bug
        * 3 Pixel Text Jog
        * Magic Creeping Text bug
        * Bottom Margin bug on Hover
        * Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
        * IE/Win Line-height bug
        * Double Float Margin Bug
        * Quirky Percentages in IE
        * Duplicate indent
        * Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
        * 1 px border style
        * Disappearing List-background
        * Fix width:auto

IE7 will now also support the following:

        * HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
        * Improved (though not yet perfect)  fallback
        * CSS 2.1 Selector support (child, adjacent, attribute, first-child etc.)
        * CSS 2.1 Fixed positioning
        * Alpha channel in PNG images
        * Fix :hover on all elements
        * Background-attachment: fixed on all elements not just body



Edited by dpyers - 02 August 2005 at 10:29am

I got that list from the MS site. Not all of it is in Beta 1, some of it's supposed to go into Beta 2.

I think float might be in the list of css items MS claims to already support - just very badly - lol.

it has IE7 intergrated within it,

what maybe happened is that you where in firefox before hand and then went into IE7

the error you mention is because the browser,OS etc are only taken once when your added to the array.

therefore when you change browsers it doesn't add you again as its done on IP and as your IP hasn't changed it still sees you in Firefox because you haven't been re entered wtihin the array

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