Posted by Erik Funkenbusch on 05/18/06 17:55

On Thu, 18 May 2006 02:22:29 -0700, Bob wrote:

>> I know it's not out yet, but any preliminary data for IE7?
>
> Yes, I do, but not from that url. From another one, I was *really*
> disappointed. There has been some limited progress WRT to CSS, but
> nothing spectacular. WRT to DOM, I am not sure if there is much new at
> all. These people like Web Standards Project (MS is now an official
> member) who have been raving about how IE7 is so much more
> standards-compliant appear to be horribly wrong. I was of the opinion
> that IE7 was much better in this regard, and when I looked it up, it was
> profoundly disappointing. Bottom line is IE7 is still dramatically
> backwards in terms of standards implementation.

IE7's primary goal was to fix the flaws that made IE's CSS support so
difficult to write code compatible with other browsers. A subset is much
easier to deal with if that subset performs the same as everyone else.

They did add some highly requested features, like min-width/height, but
largely not a lot of new CSS features (a notable exception is enhanced CSS
selector support [first-child, adjacent, etc..] and :hover on all
elements.)

The next version is supposed to address more CSS and DOM features,
including adding an xml parser for xhtml+xml mime type support, etc..
Frankly, fixing the existing CSS bugs is a huge step forward in my opinion.

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