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Blogs ยป Archive for August 1st, 2005
Not OR, AND
In reading many of your posts to recent blogs, I want to first thank you for some very thoughtful and insightful posts that really round out my sometimes skewed perspective.
One thing I notice is a tendency to have an either/or mentality, for instance, “I can be a great designer or great at sales/marketing.”
The book Built to Last by Jim Collins (a business classic by the way) has a whole chapter about how great companies shift from “or” to “and,” while laggards get stuck in either/or.
What if you were a great designer AND great at sales/marketing. What would it take for you to rise to that challenge?
IE7 Beta 2 fix list posted
Chris Wilson, lead program manager for the Internet Explorer web platform, posted yesterday with a list of bugs that have already been fixed in preparation for IE7 Beta 2.
Here’s the list (with links to full descriptions on PositionIsEverything and Quirksmode):
- Peekaboo
- Guillotine
- Duplicate Characters
- Border Chaos
- No Scroll
- 3 Pixel Text Jog
- Creeping Text
- Bottom Margin on Hover
- Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border (link, anyone?)
- IE/Win Line-height
- Doubled Float Margin
- Quirky Percentages in IE
- Duplicate indent
- Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders (link?)
- 1 px border style (link?)
- Disappearing List-background
- Fix width:auto (link?)
IE7 Beta 2 will also provide new support for 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
I’d say just about any Web developer’s top five Internet Explorer CSS bugs are included that list. It certainly wipes out the CSS items on our own Stuart Langridge’s list. JavaScript updates are still forthcoming, I hope.
Items that are still high on my hit list are:
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