IE7 CSS fixes
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Topic: IE7 CSS fixes
Posted By: dpyers
Subject: IE7 CSS fixes
Date Posted: 02 August 2005 at 1:14am
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
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 02 August 2005 at 10:09am
I hope they finally support float. That would be very sweet for layout.
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 August 2005 at 10:33am
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.
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 03 August 2005 at 11:52am
Guess Bruce hasn't catered for the new user agent yet, wwf reckoned I was using firefox:
http://www.opensourceproject.net/browser-identity-crisis.jpg - http://www.opensourceproject.net/browser-identity-crisis.jpg
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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 03 August 2005 at 1:25pm
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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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 03 August 2005 at 4:28pm
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ah, yep that was it, showing up as IE7 now
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Posted By: makhaen
Date Posted: 03 August 2005 at 11:21pm
Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 04 August 2005 at 1:36am
Hopefully all those sleepless nights making my sites look the same in IE/FF are a thing of the past, all my sites now look the same, so I wouldn't have much of an issue once IE7 comes out.
I just don't test against Opera, that would be a killer since very few people use it and I also only design now for strict mode.
I heard FF is also not CSS compliant, why can't this pleople just comply?
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 04 August 2005 at 2:07am
No browser is 100% compliant, and some that do implement a specific css
feature require different shorthand parameter order - e.g. one wants height before
width, another wants width before height.
Two best sites for resolving css discrepancies between browsers are:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/ - http://www.quirksmode.org/css/
and
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ - http://www.positioniseverything.net/
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