Microsoft is fixing CSS : gasp
This man is over gassped. News everyone : A whole raft of CSS hacks are about to be wiped out, oh the Jedis are going to feel this one. I must say this opens my eyes, oh the cats out of the bag now! I just brought a CSS hacks book after getting fed up with Microsofts non compliance.
Yo! What’s the dealio : * html body and html > body and many a beloved hack we all use to show different CSS to IE6 are gonna be gone in IE7. Need I say the reason for this hack in the first place was to address serious flaws in IE, so although this is gonna be painful I’m gonna have to drop hacks from my daily work in light of the future release of IE7. Let’s hope Microsoft do the right thing by the web development community and lets hope they don’t create more problems than they fix.
We get to a serious issue I highlighted ages ago .. IE7 will have very little market share, in fact Firefox may have more users than IE7 so for the next 10 years this news to the industry is almost a non-event. We are still stuck with IE6, please someone help us!
A lesson learned : Do things properly in the first place!
*eats his own words*
“We’re starting to see the first round of sites and pages breaking due to the CSS fixes we have made. We would like to ask your help in cleaning up existing CSS hacks in your pages for IE7. It is has been our policy since IE6 that under quirks doctype we will not make any behavioral changes” Source
I have to go now, to collect moon rocks …. peace Al Gore. Also you stink! I’ll give you a pear drop if you can comment using Futurama quotes only!