IE7 Fixes

Published July 30th, 2005 View 5 Comments »
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Idly glancing at the Internet Explorer weblog, we come across the best news about IE for half a decade: proposed fixes for standards support in IE7.

In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can, and we will add the critical most-requested features from the standards as well. 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

Four years late, and still way behind most other browsers, but at least it’s something, right? No more guillotine bug! Attribute selectors! :hover and even :first-child pseudoselectors! Fixed positioning! My cup runneth over.

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  • http://a.trendyname.org a trendy name – chris’ weblog

    Wow, I just found out that IE7 will have a bunch of css bug fixes . No more applying special fixes for IE browsers! (0) ¥

  • http://fuxupyo.us Josh

    I’m not completely up on the current lingo… do any of these mean that they’ll be fixing absolute and fixed positioning?

  • http://firasd.org Firas

    It does seem like they’ll be supporting fixed positioning. As for absolute positioning, if I remember correctly, it works fine in IE…

  • Joseph Salim

    did it fix the problem with the hp scanner director.

    " stops working after upgrading to IE7 "

  • http://www.guentherwebdesign.com/ Jereme Guenther

    IE7 still has the duplicate character bug. I am not sure what is triggering it but I was able to hack together a fix. If I simply add some spaces (on occasion I had to explicitly define the space with &nbsp ; ) the IE7 seems to duplicate the space instead of the characters; this could cause formatting issues which will have to be worked around but it is much better than extra characters being displayed.

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