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IE7 to support standards?

According to Eric Meyer, it seems that there is hope that Internet Explorer 7 may have improved standards support. He’s got a list of “Top 10 CSS Fixes” that should be made. I would definitely like to add “proper support for PNG transparency” to the list. It’s not CSS-specific, but it is a browser bug that requires many site designs to implement IE-specific work-arounds.

And of course, there are many other bugs listed at the css-discuss wiki and Position is Everything that should be fixed: the “guillotine bug”, “peekaboo bug”, and the “creeping text bug” are ones that have bitten me on more than one occassion.

About Dougal

Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding in PHP or Perl, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.
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3 Responses to IE7 to support standards?

  1. Ozh says:

    others don’t believe it really will :)

  2. Andy Skelton says:

    My site’s http://www.skeltoac.com” rel=”nofollow”>stats usually show Firefox beating MSIE out of first place in browser share. I wish the same were true for the entire web!

  3. richard says:

    AMEN! Do I need to bring the middle word to the phrase “IE … goats!”?

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