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)
• 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:

• DOM2 Events
• Explicit CSS inheritance (the inherit keyword)
• Correct inheritance of font properties inside tables

But the fact that I couldn’t even rattle off a top three without some thought is a good sign…