IE7 CSS Standards compliant or not?

[znebojsa]

Is IE7 finally CSS2.1 standards compliant? From my little experience it has produced the same results as firefox and opera (I have not tried using positioning yet)

[all4nerds]

Hello

Standard compliant ? they are recommendations only, are FF OP NS (more) Standard compliant and use all of the CSS 2 ? obviously Browser Software is difficult to write and match all the recommendations

And yes MS has changed IE 7, in a more standard compliant browser, they simply got rid of the worst bugs, but did not invest in there own concept, very disappointing

[markbrown4]

No browser completely supports the CSS 2.1 standard perfectly.

Having said that IE7 is less compliant than Firefox / Opera / Safari etc..

[znebojsa]

What major bugs are still present?

[Tailslide]

Here's a list of some of them

[disgracian]

Opera passes the Acid2 Test. Firefox2 fails miserably, and IE6 doesn't even manage even the most charitable definition of an attempt. I doubt IE7 would do all that much better.

Cheers,
D.

[zcorpan]

Firefox nightlies (Gecko 1.9) have passed Acid2 since sometime last year IIRC; Firefox 3 will pass Acid2.

[Dan Schulz]

And before anyone jumps down my throat for saying this, if you need to use a hack (as in code that is served ONLY to IE 7 and not other browsers) you're doing something wrong and need to re-examine your approach and/or your code.

By hacking, I also do not mean slipping in min-height: 1%; or other code that other browsers will happily ignore (while still seeing it), I mean using code that only IE 7 will see (and to be honest, I do include conditional comments here).