Comments on: More CSS fixes for IE7

By: nickweavers

nickweavers — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:08:21 +0000

I found that you can now do something like the following to give a visual clue on buttons in IE7 (FF and O):
input[type=text] { color :#0099FF; border : 1px double #CCCCCC; background-image: url(../images/button_bg.png); } input[type=text]:hover { color :#0000FF; }
I could not make it work on the button element though. Can anyone comment?

By: pocketsized

pocketsized — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:18:26 +0000

This is all good news about the bug fixes, but how long do people reckon it will take before all IE6 users make the move to IE7?

Maybe we need a “Spread IE7″ site much like Firefox has ;P

The removal of the * html hack interests me. While it doesn’t affect me since I tend to use the child-selector rules anyway, a lot of developers wanted the next iteration of IE to keep this hack for backwards compatibility. Yeah, IE7 still supports it but not in strict mode.

Still, at the end of the day it’s all good.

By: omnicity

omnicity — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:27:52 +0000

When we talk about people moving on to IE7, bear in mind that this will only affect the number of people using IE6, not the people using IE5.5 and below. Whatever reasons they have for that will not change, so while this is all good news in theory, in fact it actually makes our lives harder.

I seem to recall hearing that IE7 would not be available for Win2k - that is a powerful argument to downgrade to XP, but not powerful enough for me, so I guess my IE7 testing is going to have to be restricted to working hours!

By: polvero

polvero — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:24:35 +0000

It’s all good that they’re still fixing CSS bugs. Are there any words on the DOM yet?

They could stop fixing CSS all together starting here and moving forward and I’d still be happy with the improvements.

By: RaS!

RaS! — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:15:06 +0000

Oh no! more IE :)

By: Dr Livingston

Dr Livingston — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:55:59 +0000

Wishful thinking… What no one has brought to light is that IE7 in it’s self will no doubt introduce even more CSS bugs, despite it attempting to solve those ones Microsoft missed with IE6 :lol:

I just don’t know, like with Microsoft and IE, it’s a never ending vicious circle :(

Same tune, just a different dance?

By: EOBeav

EOBeav — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:38:02 +0000

Even so, I still think that you’re looking at at least a 3-year window before we start seeing IE7 as the predominant browser, and IE6 being relegated to the “seldom used” category. Would it be too much to hope that FireFox will have a majority of the market share by then?

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:42:56 +0000

i didn’t understand. If the new ie removes (in strict mode) bugs like the “imaginary root element before the element” and the child selector support, then how our todays sites will behave if they use these hacks?

In theory, IE7 will behave the same way current standards-compliant browsers do: they will ignore the hacks that are currently used to target IE6, and use the CSS code written for browsers like Firefox and Safari.

By: velocd

velocd — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:15:00 +0000

Windows Update would be my best bet, and Microsoft’s optimal solution.. that way they could place IE7 under the “Critical Updates” category for the applicable OSes. Easy fix for people. ;)

It’ll be shipped with Windows Vista of course, and additionally be made available for download on IE7’s website.

By: worchyld

worchyld — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:05:23 +0000

When is IE7 supposed to be launched anyhow? How will they launch it? via Windows Update?