[Web4lib] IE7 and CSS

[Thomas Bennett]

Youo may also want to look at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712830.aspx

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html


Plone contains an IEFixes.css style sheet that you may want to look at:

http://plone.org/ .

  From a recent plone-users post:
"The bug in the nav tree is a bug in IE6 too, so the only remaining  
difference is that the page is very wide in IE7, and that the table used  
for the calendar portlet has too much spacing (should be an easy fix)."

IE has handled tables uniquely in the past also.  I wonder why we always have 
to add CSS only to handle IE's deficiencies and most other popular browsers 
are designed to handle CSS correctly, or have I missed something here besides 
industry standards.



Speaking of standards, one of my favorite sigs I've seen on an email:

"The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from" - 
- Andrew Tanenbaum

Off topic but interesting:
This was just when tux was just a pixel on a linux box.
"My [Tanenbaum] real job is a professor and researcher in the area of 
operating systems."

See: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html

The link above quotes a newsgroup post
From: ast at cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: LINUX is obsolete
Date: 29 Jan 92 12:12:50 GMT



Thomas


On Friday 20 October 2006 08:26, David Kane wrote:
> I hope that solves our problem with our library home page (
> http://library.wit.ie/ ), which does not currently display well in IE7,
> due to its interpretation of CSS.  Fortunately the rest of our pages are
> A-okay.
>
> I haven't been able to diagnose thie problem so far.  If anyone has any
> inspiration, or similar problems with their pages not displaying well in
> IE7, it'd be great to hear.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Kane
> Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries
> http://library.wit.ie/
>
> >>> Joshua Neds Fox <nedsfoxj at westland.lib.mi.us>  >>>
>
> New to the list, so forgive me if this has been posted before.
>
> I'm sure most of you webmasters know that IE7 will add support for child
> selectors, which will allow it to see a lot of the standard IE CSS
> hacks.  Now that it's here, it might be time to take advantage of IE's
> conditional comments to move your hacks to an IE-only stylesheet.
>
> Read a bit more about it here:
>
> http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html
>
> Cheers,
> Joshua Neds-Fox
> Tech/Reference Librarian
> Public Library of Westland
> 734-326-6123
> nedsfoxj at westland.lib.mi.us
>
>
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