IE 7 to Support More Standards

Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:44 pm

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx wrote: Though you won’t see (most of) these until Beta 2, we have already fixed the following bugs from PositionIsEverything and Quirksmode:

* Peekaboo bug
* Guillotine bug
* Duplicate Character bug
* Border Chaos
* No Scroll bug
* 3 Pixel Text Jog
* Magic Creeping Text bug
* Bottom Margin bug on Hover
* Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
* IE/Win Line-height bug
* Double Float Margin Bug
* Quirky Percentages in IE
* Duplicate indent
* Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
* 1 px border style
* Disappearing List-background
* Fix width:auto

In addition we’ve added support for the following

* HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
* Improved (though not yet perfect) <object> 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

Is it normal for young vegetarians to have heart attacks? I think I’m having one!

I’m glad that they are finally fixing some of these problems. Of course, older versions aren’t going to magically die, so we still have to deal with them for a few years.

*Hopes for XHTML support*

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:04 pm

Wait wait wait. hey're actually fixing bugs before its released. Wow, thats gotta be a first.

IE7 wont really make a heap of differance to me though. I'll stick with firefox.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:41 pm

You got to be kidding me. No wait, it's true?! They'll actually consider supporting standards, and... *gasp* fixing bugs? Wow. I think linux bought out MS or something. First their main concern is security, then antispyware, then *gasp* fixing IE bugs! Wow!

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:30 am

'Tis why competition is a good thing in an economy.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:02 pm

Yep for sure. And I missed the alpha chanel PNG part ... wow, that will be an improvement alone!

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:37 pm

Cicero wrote: Wait wait wait. hey're actually fixing bugs before its released. Wow, thats gotta be a first.

IE7 wont really make a heap of differance to me though. I'll stick with firefox.

Me to.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:01 pm

I'll try IE 7 (in a VM) but not as my main browser.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:55 am

I might do that to. But IE always seems faster to load in my opinion. Firefox is slower but allows more features and has better security.

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