"We are currently locking down IE7 for shipping and I wanted to give an update on the CSS work that went into IE7. Chris originally outlined our plans for IE7, and we listened to a lot of feedback to help us address the most grievous bugs and prioritize which features to put in for IE7. I like to thank especially the contributors on this blog for their participation. Your feedback made a difference in deciding what issues to address."
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Member since:2005-07-06
There's more to CSS than ACID-2 (lots more, in fact). Currently, Firefox is still the heavyweight as far as standards compliance is concerned. Educate yourself before calling it crap when compared to Opera:
http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_summary.php?uas=IE6-IE7-FX...
Member since:2005-09-08
No it is not. Firefox is far from standard complient. Safari, Konqueror and Opera all have a better track record in this area.
Firefox has the most features (new Javascript, Mozilla specific DOM extension etc), but most of those are not standards.
In other word Firefox is the closest the Open Source has to IE!
Member since:2005-09-08
Btw. your link is one of my least favorite links on Standard conformance because it lacks any credibility of neutrality. It lists all kinds of bugs for Opera, but "forgets" to mention all the wellknown Firefox bugs.
In many cases it labels the firefox behavior as the correct one and Opera as the wrong, when both could be interpreted as right or both are in fact wrong. As browser developer and CSS expert the whole site just screams Firefox bias.
Edited 2006-08-25 11:21
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2005-11-10
I agree and I would add that Firefox is piece of junk (just not as big as IE) until it is at least as standards compilant as Opera.
Firefox is far from Opera and ACID-2, so please don't give them credits for that part (standards). Some other stuff - yes, they're great (great extensions, etc), but standards compilance is not FF's biggest strength.
Having said that, IE is really bad. Hopefully MS will continue work on IE after IE7 is RTM.