I’ve been searching for some non-compliance in Internet Explorer 7 — it seems to be reacting to every webpage in exactly the same way as Firefox!
For example, J0nz’s (is it apostrophe-s after a ‘z’?) website normally has the word “comments” hidden unless you hover on it in Firefox. In Internet Explorer 6, the word was always visible; In Internet Explorer 7, the word is hidden as, I assume, it should be!
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May 7th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
There are still some issues with margins/padding/line-heights and all that stuff… A bit of a pain, but at least they seem to be trying to get IE to work properly. Firefox is still better though
May 7th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
If you really want total compliance then Konqueror under KDE 3.5 is the best out there. Hell it even passes the Acid Test II and renders the page correctly compared to the mess that the rest do.
May 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
I have to say I like the tab which shows all the pages as thumbnails — there’s a Firefox plug in which does something similar, but the IE7 version looks like it’s supposed to be there….
May 7th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Hmm. IE being good again? I’ll give it a go, but I’ve always preferred the Netscape family regardlss of how good Fx is.
Still, it’s a very good example of why competition and markets are a good thing, forcing M$ to catch up is definately good.
May 7th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Good evening.
My name is James Skinner and I am Vice-Chairman for Conservative Youth in Monmouthshire (Wales). I was wondering, as a Conservative blogger, would it be possible if my blog could be apart of the links column on your site? If so, I would be very grateful for your co-operation.
If you would also like to contact me regarding this quiery, my email address is listed below.
Thank you for your time.
James.R.Skinner
Homepage: (http://www.conservative.co.nr) or (http://jamesrskinner.blogspot.com)
Email: jrskinner@hotmail.co.uk
May 8th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Last version of IE7 I used still didn’t support CSS2 properly. Would you do a comparitive test for me, Gavin?
I’ve written a plugin that produces a dynamic index page for WordPress. I use it on my 404 error page. It looks terrible in IE!
http://www.libertini.net/libertus/?error=404
May 8th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
The page does look different… There only seems to be one CSS related difference, though… The rest is content that is missing!
May 9th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
The “missing” content is right there in the stylesheet. I didn’t mind IE6 ignoring it. I was surprised that IE7 still ignores it.
May 9th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Yup, I see now on re-reading the code…
Naughty Microsoft.
May 10th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Naughty? Perhaps in the past I might have thought so but not now. I’m actually quite sympathetic.
I think MS are chained to 10-year-old browser technology because they cannot afford to break the internet experience of several tens of millions of their customers. The world’s biggest software company has become a prisoner of its own success.
Maybe MS should license and distribute Firefox as a second Windows browser to complement IE.