Something about MSIE7.
Interesting read regarding the CSS problems fixed in the upcoming Beta 2 of MSIE7. Finally they are getting things done.
In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can, and we will add the critical most-requested features from the standards as well. Though you won’t see (most of) these until Beta 2, we have already fixed the following bugs from PositionIsEverything and Quirksmode:
- 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
In addition we’ve added support for the following
- HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
- Improved (though not yet perfect) <object> 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
I want to be clear that our intent is to build a platform that fully
complies with the appropriate web standards, in particular CSS 2 ( 2.1, once
it’s been Recommended). I think we will make a lot of progress against that
in IE7 through our goal of removing the worst painful bugs that make our
platform difficult to use for web developers.
Maybe the list doesn’t make any difference to you, but to me that’s a whole lot of headache removed when doing CSS and testing it in the future IE7.