IE7 and CSS

Question

I looked the forum for a topic like this but I didn't find
it. I've heard that IE7 does not support correctly the CSS. Is it
true? Can I tell my customers to install it? Some of them doesn't
want to use Firefox…

Answer 1

> I don't have to feed Safari, Firefox or Netscape for
that matter
> explicit conditions to make css work in those browsers,
why should it
> be that IE is the one that gives the most problems. Even
their newest
> release is lame compared to the older version of the
browsers I
> mentioned.
>
> All I'm saying is IF others CAN get it correct why on
earth can't
> they. They have access and the money to employ the best
in the
> business and yet still fail.....you think thats ok? I
don't.
I agree... but in a different way :-)
Microsoft's IE team is top-rate and, if you get to konow
them, very
stadards-oriented and up on CSS. The problems occur when
non-IE team
members get involved. A case in point being the "zoom"
feature which we
all are learning to hate. Adobe is not all that dissimilar.
Dreamweaver
is a great application - when its team can stick to what they
do best.
When outside (the dev team) influences start making demands
for certain
"features", that's when problems happen. Murray can explain
all about
how the Fireworks/Dreamweaver menu came to be and even link
to an
entertaining blog entry by a former employee.
That said, while Safari and Firefox do not require much in
the way of
CSS hacks for ordinary web pages, they do require some
workarounds and
all modern browsers do have some quirks. Safari and Firefox
do, however,
require significant hacking when doing advanced manipulations
through
the DOM, to fix bugs and to counter the shortcuts both of
those browsers
take to appear faster than they really are :-)
It's just not apparent to most typical web designers.
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets
Authors: "42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design"